Brigada – 2024-03-31

Compiled/Edited by Doug Lucas and Tina McCormick, Team Expansion
Brigada online has more graphics and links at https://brigada.org

In this issue…
1) Free Member Care Brochures for Missionaries
2) Pick up a Professional TEFL Certificate Online!
3) Ever hear the story of Richard Wurmbrand? He served 14 years in a
4) Day-long Conference: How to Run an Internal Personnel Investigation
5) Learn to Teach English as a Second Language in Chiang Mai
6) Beyond Secure Check-in: Child and Youth Safety Best Practices
7) Want a proven way to strengthen your teams?
8) Want to get involved in Ship Equipped Ministries?
9) Wow. So Maybe Christianity Isn’t Really Going to the Dogs?
10) Free Bible Study Leadership Class Online
11) Logos is STILL a Good Deal, but Here Are Other Options Too
12) Just When You Thought You Had Every Book on Reentry…
13) We’re Grateful for…
14) The Last Bit: Prayers Answered for Bolivia: Law Revoked!
15) Closing Stuff

This website has more than 100 brochures on a variety of topics helpful in missionary life and service. Topics available now are culture stress, pornography, depression, same-sex marriage, and more than 100 others. Missionaries may just read the brochures on-line, or they can download them as PDF documents. If they do this, they can print the PDFs as trifold brochures to hand out to other missionaries, or they can forward them as attachments to emails. For a list of links to all topics available go to…..

http://www.missionarycare.com/brochures.html

To see one example as a model, take a look at the brochure about missionary attrition, for instance:

http://www.missionarycare.com/brochures.html

Now you can get a professional TEFL Certificate Online to get a job overseas in Teaching English As A Foreign Language. You can be ready to teach English to arriving refugees or obtain genuine work abroad. With this training, you can start anytime utilizing this online course. ConnecTEFL is an affordable 120 hr teaching English as a foreign language certification program. The course can be taken online anywhere in the world. The certificate meets the globally accepted TESOL International short-term certificate standards. Check it out at…

http://www.connectefl.com

He served 14 years in a Communist prison. Now, a new movie will help you re-live the story — AND those who attend the movie will receive a special copy of the book about Pastor Wurmbrand’s life. Learn more at…

https://www.torturedforchrist.com

The movie is showing for one night only in major cities around the USA (world?) You will have to reserve tickets in advance. See the site for more information about how to do that, along with instructions about how to help bring the movie to a city closer to you. If you’d like to hear more about Pastor Wurmbrand’s testimony but you can’t go on March 5th to one of these cities, you can watch a special 30-minute cartoon retelling of his life in a version that came out in 2009 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYpIXkPr9mg

(with Sinhala subtitles). Richard Wurmbrand was subsequently the founder of Voice of the Martyrs. A portion of the price for every ticket will go to help them help those who are being persecuted.

This day-long conference will begin with an in-depth legal overview on running an investigation. Participants will then engage in a full table-top investigation, with outcomes based on the choices made by the investigative teams. The conference will finish with a practical and legal debrief. It takes place April 27, 2018, 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM MDT at The Hideaway in Black Forest, 3805 Walker Road, Colorado Springs. Learn more at…

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/be-the-investigator-teaching-and-table-top-for-an-internal-investigation-tickets-42213546855

Asia’s Center for TESOL has set new dates for training — June 25-July 27, 2018, and January 7 – February 8, 2019. Get TESOL training designed for those in ministry set at a ministry budget. Asia’s Center for TESOL offers an intensive, five-week course leading to a TESOL certificate in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Get classes, community experience, and lots of guidance – and a certificate – all at the same time. And it’s cheaper to fly out and take this course than it is to take the same course in North America! For an application or more information, click to

http://www.actesol.com

or email
infothai@actesol.com

This upcoming seminar covers the biblical basis for child safety, background about child abuse, implementing good policies for screening, selection, and training; responding to child abuse allegations, both externally and internally, and ways to approach church discipline. Catch it on Feb 21, from 8:30-10:30 AM at the Telios Law Office, 19925 Monument Hill Road, Monument, CO. Learn more an register at…

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-secure-check-in-child-and-youth-safety-best-practices-tickets-42245180472

or email
tell@telioslaw.com

Outside scrutiny validates the team assessment tool known as PATH. The Periodic Assessment of Team Health (PATH) assesses teams based on 7 domains: Team Commitment, Diversity, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Leadership, Decision Process, and Trust & Openness. PATH was analyzed using Crombach’s alpha, the preferred scale reliability test. (Internal reliability means internal scale consistency.) A reliability score of .70 or above is interpreted as a high internal scale consistency. PATH passed. See examples of PATH profile results here…

http://www.cultureconceptsconsulting.com/

by scrolling down and clicking on the sample tests.

How is it that, if we Google this (before today, anyway), there are literally only *3* results. (We used search terms, “PATH” then put in the quoted name of the test — “Periodic Assessment of Team Health”) Does this mean that, starting today, there will be *four* results (once Google picks up on Brigada’s entry?)??? How has this thing remained so silent? Seems like every agency and church in the *world* would want to use this profile. Sonny’s biggest challenge will be, “How do I have the time to keep teaching in the classroom when mission teams and churches all over the world are wanting me to come profile and help their teams?”

The 2nd 12-week School of Navigation & Seamanship starts on 26th March 2018 mainly onboard YWAM’s Sail Training vessel s/y Next Wave in Greece. Following that a Bluewater Discipleship Training School on s/y Next Wave will start on 9th July 2018. This is a regular YWAM DTS, but living on a training vessel and sailing in the Aegean. It sounds reeeeeeeeeally cool. See…

http://www.ywamnextwave.org

for details of both schools. We want to go. : )

At least not in the USA. And not today anyway. See this cool article by Glenn Stanton…

http://thefederalist.com/2018/01/22/new-harvard-research-says-u-s-christianity-not-shrinking-growing-stronger/

He cites a paper by a researcher at Indiana University and Harvard…

https://www.sociologicalscience.com/download/vol-4/november/SocSci_v4_686to700.pdf

and his conclusions might startle you. Then again, maybe you never doubted. : ) (Thanks for the tip, Eric!)