Brigada – 2024-03-17

2) Free shipping of INDIVIDUAL copies of “Stubborn Perseverance”

By the way, regarding the book above (in item 1), the publisher informed us yesterday that when you buy books in quantity, you often have added work and expense to re-ship individual books to friends at a distance. Even with Media Mail this can nearly double the cost. However, our friend at the publisher, Robby, has found a way to ship ANY number of books to U.S. street addresses as cheaply as by the case (just a bit more slowly). Thus this offer of Stubborn Perseverance includes shipping individual books to your contacts for free! (No information can be included with the books with this shipping method, so you’ll still have to let your friends know to expect their book.) Also, note that this applies to U.S. street addresses only. So sorry — no Post office boxes. Cases (30 or so) should arrive before Christmas. Smaller quantities (including individual copies) should arrive by mid January. Reserve your copies now at…

http://StubbornPerseverance.org/pre-pub-disc

3) Collaborative Promotion Of Movement Books

Before we leave the subject of “movement” books, God is seemingly stirring His Church to recognize movements as the best way to reach every people, especially the unreached. And a rapidly growing number supporters and practitioners are eager to better understand what God is doing through movements. However many movement books lack adequate promotion and are unknown to this growing audience. So, again, our friend, Robby, is working toward collaborative promotion. If the current offer of Stubborn Perseverance generates a good response, he hopes to do something similar with other movement books in the near future. You can help by:
*** sharing the Stubborn Perseverance offer with others, and
*** letting Robby know which other movement books you would most like to share with others.

Email
RobbyQButler@gmail.com to suggest movement books you think others should know about, or that you’d like to buy in quantity. Thanks!

4) The Patronage Symposium (Oct ’18, Beirut)

Patron-client relationships are foundational in most cultures, but largely neglected in Western missiology. The Patronage Symposium will gather leading thinkers and practitioners to develop a biblical and practical missiology on this pivotal topic. Join them October 3-5, 2018 at ABTS in Beirut, Lebanon. For more information and registration, visit:

http://honorshame.com/patronage/

6) Missionary Marriage Issues: Free Download

Marriage is complicated enough! Then when you add a cross-cultural living situation and a cross-cultural ministry, things begin to get really confusing. The nineteen chapters in “Missionary Marriage Issues” will help you navigate your way through the confusion. The book is available to download free of charge as .doc, .pdf, or .zip files for your computer and as .mobi or .epub files for your Kindle or Nook. You can’t beat the price. Find it for free at…

http://www.missionarycare.com/missionary-marriage-issues.html

7) New Parenting Book To Help Your Children Embrace Your Faith

Effective, results-proven advice on raising children overseas is now in book form. It’s entitled, “Pass-it-on Parenting, 6 Powerful Principles to Help Your Child to Embrace Your Faith.” This would make a great Christmas present. It’s available in paperback and kindle at:

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2/134-1227668-1665424?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=S.M.+Wibberley

Please click on the word “comment” below this text to review the book after you’ve read it.

8) Wow — Take a Look at the Latest from Pew Forum Regarding Migration

East European Lake

East European Lake

I was sobered when I looked at migration to Europe, as reported by the Pew Forum, here…

http://www.pewforum.org/2017/11/29/europes-growing-muslim-population/

I love it that the Pew Forum is just accurately reporting true facts here, without fear tactics, without plugging in lots of theories. But wow — this changes so much. Please share your response/reaction by logging on to the web version of this item and clicking “Comment.”

10) Curious About How the Missions Landscape is Changing?

Now you can see it all in front of your very eyes in this new missiographic by MissioNexus with stats from their new North American Mission Handbook:

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/missio-graphics/Volume+5/missiographic-NA-Protestant-Missions-Staffing-Finances.pdf

This page is full of surprises for me. For example, I had no idea that 72% of all single workers are female. I had no idea that business as missions had risen so much. And I had on appreciation for the stability of the missionary enterprise. (I thought the number of missionaries being sent had dropped by more than half. Too many assumptions.) Thanks to all the people who made this graphic possible. See other graphics at…

http://www.Missiographics.com

11) Bible Translation’s Newest Participant: the Church

What would it look like if the church became a participant in the Bible translation process? Maybe a lot like…

https://www.ccbt.bible/

This is church-based Bible translation — and it’s changing the face of translation as we know it. These approaches report that they can radically reduce the amount of time involved (length of each translation) while maintaining integrity for the work and the Word. What’s YOUR take on these claims? (Please click “Comment” following the web version of this item to give your own opinion.)

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