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Looking for Holistic Microfinance and Microenterprise Development Training For those ministering to the poor in Africa, Asia and Latin America? Look no further. The Chalmers Center offers a series of three distance courses. The initial course, Foundations and Principles of Holistic Ministry, is designed to help you understand appropriate goals and strategies for conducting church-based [...]

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One has to admire the folks at CrossGlobalLink. Seems like their doing exactly the kind of stuff that should be their job description. Check out their growing database on those doing aid to Haiti at… http://haitihub.org/ If you have a need, list it. If you’re bringing a resource to the table, log it. So those [...]

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Help Phil, a grad student, develop a wellness inventory which will allow managers and member care staff to assess the well-being of colleagues in the physical, emotional, spiritual, social, occupational and intellectual areas of their lives.  Unlike many of the current assessments that attempt to answer the question, “How sick are you?” this inventory is [...]

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Hats off to Wycliffe Associates UK for developing their EasyEnglish bible text and commentaries http://www.easyenglish.info It’s an easy-to-read Bible text and commentaries (2800 word level) available on a free CD. For more information, email

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Here’s a website created for expatriate and national believers who are ministering to Muslims in the Arab world.  It seeks to provide a comprehensive on-line database of information and critique of print and audio-visual resources for church planting ministry use. http://www.resource-international.info An https version of the site is available by sending email to

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Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization (ECHO) is offering a one-week course called “Introduction to Tropical Agricultural Development” February 22 – 26 and May 3 – 7. ECHO is a Christian non-profit organization based in Fort Myers, FL which is equipping those serving internationally with resources and skills to reduce hunger and improve the lives of [...]

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The early church spread God’s Word quickly despite political persecution and cultural resistance simply by telling everyone stories from the Bible! Experience 5 days of Bible storying in beautiful Orlando, Florida with Campus Crusade for Christ and then you’ll be able to train others. This trainers’ training is May 10 – 14, 2010 and is [...]

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EasyBibles is printing and posting, free of charge, Gospel booklets to the world’s poorest nations, particularly in Africa, for field-testing and feedback before printing larger quantities to post. These booklets will be sold to the poor at very low prices. Recent languages starting include Broa from Cambodia and Kelabit from Borneo, Malaysia. If anyone knows [...]

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We are so encouraged — and motivated to go on — in view of the sacrifices made by folks like the anonymous friend from Hattiesburg, MS, who sent in $100 this past week. Thank you!!! She wrote, “I am giving thanks to God for you and your faithful ministry that has encouraged me for several [...]

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Would you consider giving on behalf of the many who can’t? Just click on one of the “Donor” links at the top of this page. Both are safe, the one with PayPal and the other with one of the most well-known “real” online merchants on the web. Neither requires you to open an account with [...]

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Last week, I took part in a pre-conference preview of Lausanne III, or should I say Capetown 2010. Here’s a random list of my impressions, in no particular order: *** A flair for the “Egalitair” — It seemed the Lausanne leadership had somewhere picked up a strong bias against celebrity. We were organized by table [...]

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