Brigada

These weekends help prospective missionaries explore what it is like to be a missionary, discover whether a missionary or sender role is God’s fit, and connect with mission agencies. This is for college students, young adults, mid-lifers, baby boomers – anyone willing to explore becoming a missionary. Each retreat of 50 participants and 10 missionaries from multiple agencies is highly relational with extended worship, small group discussions, personal reflection and much prayer. Discussions include guidance, finances, singles/families, etc.  The last retreat this year will be Oct 1-3 near Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Journey Deepens is presented by Finishers/MissionNext and co-sponsored by ACMC, Perspectives and the U.S. Center for World Mission. See the online promo video and FAQ at TheJourneyDeepens.com. (Thanks to Finishers.org for sending $100 to empower Brigada onward in service.)

Create International (a YWAM vision in Chiang Mai, Thailand) produces evangelistic, mobilization, and church-planting media resources for unreached peoples. They’re on the web at….

http://www.createthailand.com

The School of Cartooning and Animation for Missions is a school designed to train missionary cartoonists. It’ll take place again in 2011.

Have you ever visited…

http://www.internationalbulletin.org/

If not, run, don’t walk, to check it out. All their back issues are there, completely free. Somebody over there is thinking *way* unselfishly. It starts in 1977 and continues through today, with each quarterly edition readily viewable!

John is researching missionary activity in the Solomon Islands.  If you are aware of any missionary activity in the Solomons, would you share it with him? Click on comment below or by email:

Emily wrote recently to familiarize us with this conference. “This is designed for those of us who work in missions home offices. This year, it’s in Rockville, VA (just outside Richmond) at an IMB base and is from December 1-3.  There are lots of breakout type sessions–6 of them in each area of Mobilization, HR, Training and Member Care. If you’ve never been to one of these, I highly recommend it. It’s a great place for learning from others who do what you do, plus have a component of personal development.” More details are on their website at

http://www.crossgloballink.org

(Thanks Emily!)

Here’s a resource from a worker in Southeast Asia who has written a Bible storying resource that many find both unique and helpful for missionaries. Basically, it’s “a completely unique Bible storying set, designed to begin and end each story with Jesus. In the middle of each story there are relevant “flashbacks” to the Old Testament which help to understand more about who Jesus is and provide a broader Biblical worldview.” See it at…

http://www.flashbackstories.com/

and, if you’re interested, see his instructions there for ordering the resource as a book.

If not, you should! It has…

* All-New, High-Contrast E-Ink Screen – 50% better contrast than any other e-reader

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* New WebKit-Based Browser – Browse the web over Wi-Fi

To try this model, or the $139 or $379 kind & buy, just click to …
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Prayer Fellowship Intl. has published devotionals…

1. 31 Days of Meditation – Enjoy Him Forever, 72 pages.

2. No man spoke like this Man – His Words and Teachings, 112 pages.

3. 31 Days of Miracles – Enjoy His Deeds, 72 pages.

Written and Compiled by a key leader of India Missions Assn. in Hyderabad for 12 years, it’s edited by a lady from Scotland. It’s just

$1 per e-book or paperback (postage extra). For more details or sample pages, please email to

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Thanks to Kingdom Come Training for sending a gift of $50 to empower Brigada onward. They do online instruction and coaching for fundraising and their students are averaging six months to achieve full funding. Find them on the web at…

http://www.kingdomcometraining.com

Thanks!

Thanks, too, for the Pennsylvania participant who sent $10 just to say thanks for Brigada’s ministry.

Finally, thanks to Finishers Project for the $100 gift they sent. Learn about “The Journey Deepens,” and get connected with missions in general. Find them on the web at…

http://www.finishers.org

Want to lift up Brigada in the name of someone on the other side of the planet? Someone 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 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!

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