Brigada

A Business as Mission (BAM) Consultation is slated for Thursday September 23 8AM-3PM in Charlotte, NC. The purpose is to determine what it will take for business people to cross the divide into missions. This event will put missions leaders together with accomplished business people. An objective is to break the code to recruit business people into countries looking to westerners to establish productive enterprises and thus earn the right to share the gospel and establish churches. The price of the consultation is free. But each participant must sign up at

http://www.missionenterprise.com/register

to attend. There is much more to define the consultation objectives on the web.

This event, sponsored by Finishers Project, will be held just prior to the start of The Mission Exchange/CrossGlobal Link/EMS Mosaic conference in Charlotte, NC Sept 23-25, 2010.

The objective of this 8-week course is to provide students with an overview and understanding of how secular advertisers market products and ideas using social media. This course examines the ways that ideas can be communicated. Students will post comments on the spiritual applications each week and write a ministry proposal as a final project that synthesis the information learned in the course with spiritual communication objectives. Better act fast though. You’ll need to sign up before Sept 10th. Visit

http://www.comresources.org/Training/

to enroll. Questions email Dan Henrich at

Stand4Kids, a children’s ministry team of Pioneers, recently launched a website to help equip children’s leaders and workers. It has a dual focus: missions for kids and children-at-risk advocacy. Check out

http://www.stand4kids.org

The early church did it. They spread the Good News by telling stories.  Now you can 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 October 25 – 29, 2010 is for individuals, churches, and mission agencies.  The workshop begins at 6pm on Monday and ends at noon on Friday.   The cost for on-site lodging, meals, materials, and airport ground transfers is $350 per person.  For details visit

http://www.StoryRunners.com

It no longer takes two to four years to raise your full ministry budget.  Through KCT training, coaching and accountability faith ministry staff are achieving their full funding in four to six months! They choose their own time schedule and take the training and coaching at home over live, interactive videoconferencing. The cost is much less than travelling to a weekend workshop.  Field staff, home staff and furloughites are all achieving their full funding in record time.  KCT offers a money-back guarantee if the training doesn’t work for you. Check out their website:

http://www.kingdomcometraining.com/

or contact:

The Oasis Conference is Crescent Project’s annual conference, bringing together various individuals who are interested in learning more about reaching Muslims. Participants will engage in workshops, networking, and the opportunity to hear from nationally recognized speakers. It will take place Oct. 21-23, 2010, at Grace Community Church, Brentwood, TN. Learn more at…

https://www.crescentproject.org/oasisconference

Catch a “Bridges 1 Day, LA” workshop and hear from Crescent Project President Fouad Masri as he shares about reaching Muslims, including Islam’s background, bridging the Gospel among Muslims, and reaching Muslim women. Catch one Sep. 11, 2010, at Mariners Church, Irvine, CA or if that’s too quick, attend on Oct. 2, 2010 at Wheaton Bible Church, West Chicago, IL. Learn more at

https://www.crescentproject.org/bridgesoneday

Download your copy of the e-book version of Operación Mundo Revisión 2005 that was just released in January 2010.  It is available through the ministry of ObreroFiel.com at their store

http://www.tiendaobrerofiel.com

The print edition is available as well.

Obrerofiel, with the permission of Libros Alianza, is excited to release a brand new Celebremos Su Gloria product of this popular hymnal. With some churches using projection systems , there have been many requests for a PowerPoint(r) type system. This new Presentation Hymnal Edition of the Celebremos Su Gloria meets this technology need for many churches. It is competitively priced to equal what a church would normally spend for 30 pocket sized hymnals and 1 professional edition hymnal for their musicians to use.  To see it visit

http://www.tiendaobrerofiel.com/epages/tiendaobrerofiel.sf/es_ES/?ViewObjectID=178038

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If you are working in Ethiopia – or want to, this is for you.  All are invited; Churches, Missions Organizations, NGO’s, Ethiopian Nationals.  The consultation will be held September 17-18, 2010, in San Diego and sponsored by e3 Partners Ministry. Come prepared to share best practices, learn from each other, connect, collaborate, listen and look for overlap and ministry synergy.  Please spread the word, or let the organizers know others that need an invitation.  Lunch will be provided.  To register or receive schedule and further information, contact

or

Whether you believe it or not, you will need ministry specific skills to be effective in using your profession or business acumen in cultures where your faith may be seen as a threat. GO Equipped TENTmaking courses focus on these skills and nothing else. Their next FREE 3 hour seminars are in Pasadena Friday September 17, and in Spokane WA September 24,25. The next 4.5 day intensive course is in Los Angles, October 20-24. For people in Europe, check out the first ever course in Germany on November 22-25. If Finland is not too cold for you in mid-winter, there is a weekend tentmaking seminar taking place in Kauniainen, February 4-6, 2011. For more information on these and other events, you need to go to their events page at

http://www.globalopps.org/news.htm

or contact them directly at

Were you looking for those links to “Managing Stress” (Item 6 last week)? Sorry we failed to include the link in the email version of Brigada. But we’ve since added it to the site. If this kind of thing ever happens again, remember that you can ask, as a comment under the item, and we’ll post it relatively quickly — to minimize any inconvenience. Thanks for your understanding.

Here’s the link for the email readers:

http://www.ifrc.org/Docs/pubs/health/managing-stress-en.pdf

Hats off to the friends in LeRoy, NY, who sent in $50 for Brigada. The donor included the message, “I’m just saying thanks.” We’re encouraged, sobered, and inspired to go on.

…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 Authorize.net. Neither requires you to open an account with anyone … and neither ever spams you. We can even set up a regular once-a-month automatic withdraw from your checking account or major credit card. Set it up once and rest easily, knowing that you’re regularly helping get Brigada on the way to the nations. Or, if you prefer, just send an old-fashioned check payable to Team Expansion to: Team Expansion (Brigada), 11327 Jefferson Trace Blvd., Louisville, KY 40291. (Team Expansion is a 501(c)3 incorporation so for USA citizens, your checks made out to Team Expansion are tax-deductible.) A gift of any size would help, whether monthly or one-time. If you know someone else who might like to help, just hit reply and tell us about him/her/them. Thank you for your help in fueling the fire of Brigada!

Comment or inquire about this item at…

http://www.brigada.org/2010/06/27_5034

I hope you’ve been following some of the discussion in the comments that followed the item at…

http://www.brigada.org/upgs

Roland wrote, “…We must recognize that not every agency has this [unreached people group priority] focus, and rightly so. For instance, those training church leaders, teaching literacy, or a host of other ministries will have a much wider focus. For those of us who have a specific calling on our lives to Reach the Unreached Now (RUN) we have to accept the fact that our target is always moving. As people groups become ‘reached’ …, our focus changes to groups who are ‘unreached.’ Eventually, we hope to classify the entire world as ‘reached’ and then we will join the host of other organizations who are supporting national churches around the world.” So… what *he* said. :-)

Greg made a helpful and much-needed clarification to my original item, “I agree that the people group paradigm has been a helpful mobilization tool. However, it is more than that. It also helps in setting strategy, focusing prayer, and evaluating progress. Moreover, several biblical references cause us to wonder if God himself sees the world through a people group construct. People group thinking has power and continues to be relevant!”

Danny added, somewhat passionately, “… What is in His [God's] heart? What does He want reclaimed from Satan? What surrounds His throne (Rev 7:9)? Hey, whether the “numbers” types and the “mercy ministry” types like it or not, we KNOW those multitudes are already in place. We DON’T know about all those ethnic groups. Missions, logically, should be done on that basis. This whole reaching the unreached groups thing is not some fad-like and passing 101 Missions class concept. It speaks to what our Lord’s church is to be doing — getting real about what can only be seen as His last highest priority. Don’t trash or trivialize ANYTHING that can in ANY way aid us in doing what has to be done — done so that we KNOW it is done — and eternity comes that much closer to beginning.”

See the entire article, including my original editorial, then add your own opinion about Unreached People Group thinking, at…

http://www.brigada.org/upgs