Brigada – 2024-03-17

6) Churches and Agencies, TIMO is an Option to Train Your Recruits

Have you heard of TIMO? It’s a two-year training program that blends learning and doing, giving new workers the chance to learn about and serve unreached people groups in Africa! Most TIMO Teams have Africans on the team as team members and all team leaders/mentors are experienced cross-cultural workers with 5 or more years of experience. The team goes through a guided but flexible curriculum and focuses on learning heart language and culture and on building relationships in the host community. It is designed for those called to long term cross cultural missions, and gives team members a chance to try new things, make mistakes, be mentored, learn how to engage the unreached… all the while doing ministry among a UPG! Check it out at

https://vimeo.com/6533645

Think About It from AIM On-Field Media on Vimeo.

TIMO is a ministry of the Africa Inland Mission, but TIMO partners with many other mission orgs and runs multi-organizational teams.

https://aimint.org/timo/

8) Where to Find Training Materials for “Purity Sponsors???”

Surely someone has prepared a course to train people how to help those who are addicted to looking at things on the internet that they shouldn’t view. (If we say the word, the filters for your will kick in and you won’t see this edition of Brigada, so we have to talk around the issue, which is so metaphorical about the church, too.) In other words, suppose you’re a mission agency with 100 applicants per year for new full-time work. Our guess is that 65 of those will either be addicted to looking at things on the internet (that they shouldn’t) or they will be doing it in hiding, without telling you. You can’t help the latter crowd (because they’re keeping it hidden), but the honest folks are crying out for help. Who trains the folks on your staff who are willing to coach them out of this bad habit that is driving a wedge between them and God? We’ve done a quick poll and we can’t find ANY training whatsoever. How is that possible. We can get online training for running a video camera, starting a discovery Bible study, and changing the oil in our lawn mower even. Surely *someone* has developed materials for those who are charged with coaching people away from this destructive habit?

9) What is “Member Care,” Really?

Who coined the term, “Member Care?” Was it Kelly O’Donnell, in his 2002 book, “Doing Member Care Well?” (He used it again in his 2011 book, “Global Member Care.”) These are valuable “best practices” books containing resources and input from people all over the world. (Thank you Kelly.) But we wonder who first used the term? Who made them famous? Either way, what are YOUR favorite books about Member Care? We’ve attended the “Pastor to Missionaries” conference (Thank you Barnabas International

http://www.barnabas.org/member-care

(They also have a set of free downloadable tools at…

http://www.barnabas.org/resources/member-care-downloads

But where do you get your best help for Member Care? In short, who guides you? If you have a tip or an answer, please click “Comment” after the web version of this item. Thanks in advance for any help you can give!

10) Everything You Need To Manage Traveler Risk On One Dashboard

Morton Security is once again working to keep non-profits and faith based organizations in business by providing safety and security resources at an affordable rate. They now have an online platform that manages traveler itineraries, emergency contact information, provides critical information, intelligence reports, access to security assets onsite and includes travel insurance/evacuation coverage. They give you the ability to avoid a crisis and react to crisis efficiently. Learn more at…

https://www.mortonsecure.com/sign-up-for-your-travel-secure-port

11) What If We Fall Short of the Goal? Like Neymar, Don’t Give Up

I understand PSG has offered something like 1/2 billion Euros for Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior (who has played for Barcelona since 2013). I don’t even know what 1/2 billion Euros looks like. To put things into perspective, that’s roughly equivalent to the 2016 entire national budget for Sierra Leone (or Belize). Now… Neymar is good, mind you. But even he sometimes misses. If you don’t believe it, just watch him trying to kick a goal across rooftops on Jimmy Kimmel, ‘live.’ The trouble is, he misses the first two times. But he keeps trying. Just because we haven’t accomplished the Great Commission yet, it doesn’t mean we should give up. We should keep trying. Maybe “third time will be charm” for us too. : ) (See for yourself.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9ngSyiAEeU

12) Why Does Brigada Still Spell Out the Entire URL of Links?

In a day and age when seemingly *everybody* links long URL’s to innocent words in the middle of sentences, why does Brigada continue to spell out links on a separate line, with the “http://” in front of the URL? There are several answers:
a) First (and the shortest answer), some (many?) of our readers still print their Brigada editions and hand the paper copies to friends and colleagues in their offices. Did you ever stop to realize that when you print a webpage or email, the link *behind* that bold word is completely invisible? We’ve always believed that, contrary to popular opinion, at least when it comes to web pages and emails, the printed page isn’t very powerful — if the links are all missing. So we spell them out — every time — on their own separate line, so they won’t get mixed up with periods or other punctuation or get mixed in with other words or text. But just as importantly, …
b) Secondly, there’s a philosophical reason too. We’ve always thought it was weird that people would just *blindly* click on a link without paying attention to where they’re going. So we made a commitment long ago that we’d provide the link, regardless of how long it is, and that the link *behind* the link would be exactly the same as the printed link on the page. In other words, unlike other pages, we *SHOW* you exactly where we’re going to send you when you click. Now granted… you could make the argument that one can always hover one’s mouse over the link to verify (since modern browsers then display the link hiding under the link), but we just always thought it was more honest to be straight with you — about where you’re about the fly.

c) Finally, we just like the idea that this “full disclosure practice” would hopefully help people name links logically, if at all possible. Why wouldn’t it be possible that if you go to

http://www.cnn.com/world

it should take you to the world news summary page? (And it does, by the way.) If people would just be a bit more logical about naming their webpages, then the world would be a friendlier place ANYWAY. I mean, what if CNN had named their page, cnn.com/1359799/july/2016/fkdlsifl ??? That just wouldn’t make any sense, eh? So we love letting you SEE the link because it helps the world see how (hopefully) orderly web page creators can be.

That’s all we’ve got to say about that. : )

13) We’re Grateful to…

…Commission Ministers Network for their gift of $100 this past week! Wow. God bless you guys!!! Learn more at…

https://www.cmnetwork.org/

and for a gift of $30 from fantastic friends from the great state of Kentucky. We appreciate you!

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