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Register for Urbana 09 by June 30 for the lowest rates! Join thousands of students, pastors, missions practitioners and others at Urbana 09, December 27 – 31, 2009 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Since 1946 Urbana has shaped more than 235,000 people, moving thousands to Christian service in business, professions, the church, and missions around [...]

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Missions activities for any time, any place, and any season! Check out Zowie! 200+ Ministries Kids Can Do. Written with short-term, long-term, and one-time activities in mind, Zowie! includes encouraging testimonials and project ideas to help kids minister to the needs of their communities throughout the year. Reproducible appendixes carry Bible verse cards in English [...]

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Are you doing Business as Mission and want to earn additional income while reaching the best and brightest young people all over the world? Then join The Personal Learning Center International http://www.plc.edu/ and help recruit students. PLC/I provides English language instruction using the Rosetta Stone language learning program (they also offer 30 other languages) and [...]

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The AVM (Alliance for Vulnerable Mission), that in early 2009 held eight regional conferences in the USA and Europe, wrote recently to express its opinion that, whenever possible, outreach should be conducted in the local national language whenever possible. It ensures that people being reached remain free to use familiar categories in important debates, forcing [...]

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Take a missions journey to Venezuela! WMU’s new “Kids Reaching Kids: Venezuela” resources feature session plans, games, crafts, stories, and more to help leaders teach about how kids in Venezuela show God’s love to other kids. Designed for leaders who need material to plan a special missions event for children. Kids Reaching Kids: Venezuela –Leader [...]

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Khao Lak International School opens in September, 2009 promising students an excellent standard of English education, and teachers a package better than many TESOL programs in Thailand, plus subsidized housing, an amazing opportunity to serve in this rather unreached place, and other fringe benefits just as clear as the Andaman Sea. If you want to [...]

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Have a great missions project idea for kids? Or want to see what other churches and families are doing to engage their children in missions? Visit WMU’s Children’s Missions Ideas forum: http://www.wmuforums.com/forum_topics.asp?FID=2 It’s easy and it’s free!

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Hearts Burning: There is a natural tendency among those who know their Bible well to read the narrative safe in the knowledge of how the story ends. Here’s a consultation that acts as a place where existing and emerging best practices of Scripture Engagement can be discovered, shared and reflected upon. Some 150 – 200 [...]

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Beginning August, 2009, the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics (GIAL) in Dallas, Texas, will offer courses leading to a Graduate Certificate in Multicultural Teamwork. People working with other cultures and different organizations will learn how teams work across cultural boundaries, and how to handle the various cultural factors affecting their work together. The program includes [...]

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Our queue is lots longer than the number of items we can publish weekly. We do eventually publish all items, regardless of sponsorship. However, those who pitch in to help cover Brigada’s expenses are treated with special dignity — because they’re helping pay the bills. We bump them directly to the head of the line. [...]

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For those who experienced events spawned by the AD2000 & Beyond Movement, we are now nearly ten years removed. (AD2000 & Beyond decommissioned itself intentionally at the close of the decade.) Maybe it’s a good time to again assess the success of the effort. I can definitely tell you that there was a surge of [...]

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