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10) What’s the Best “Template” for Kicking off a New Mission Team?

Today we were wondering… what’s the best template or guidebook for helping someone kick off a new mission work from scratch? Could be a church… or a bunch of college or university students. Could be an agency who just wants to reboot a new work. Where would you send them? The closest thing we could think of to a printed ‘template,’ per se, might be the book, “A Vision of the Possible: Pioneer Church Planting in Teams,” available on Amazon at…

https://www.amazon.com/Vision-Possible-Pioneer-Church-Planting/dp/0830857796

It was written by people who are actually implementing in difficult cross-cultural settings. But what’s your best pick?

11) So you Have to Raise Mission Support? Get the Book

If you’re just decided to go into missions, you’ve been accepted by your church or agency, and then you have just learned you have to raise support, never fear: Someone who has gone before you has your back. Visit…

https://supportraisingsolutions.org/

for support-raising solutions. Start by getting the book (“The God Ask”) and add additional help as you need it from the site. You can and will succeed. A clear vision from God never goes unfunded. Get started today. Of course, ask your church or agency for additional help and resources, along with a clear budget, and any other fundraising materials they provide.

12) Suppose You’re a Cross-Cultural Worker Homeschooling Your Kids…

Suppose you have to stay on top of everything your kids are reading, but they’re starting to read full-length books. How do you get everything done for your JOB while still managing meaningful discussions about the multiple books your kids are reading? Try …

http://www.sparknotes.com/

It’s like the old “Cliff’s Notes” that we used to see in high school and college — except modern and digital. Of course, Cliff’s Notes still maintains a site too… and they even say they are the “most widely imitated.” [smile] You’ll have to decide for yourself which site to use for your own purposes. : )

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/

13) We’re Grateful for…

…the $52.94 gift from Insurance Services of America (ISA) highlighting insurance plans purchased recently for international travel from several of their new customers who heard about ISA in Brigada. God bless you ISA! Remember, if you need insurance, check out ISA at…

http://www.missionaryhealth.net/brigada/

…the $100 gift we received from the Create Mobile Production & Training Team. They have designed amazing opportunities for those who want to learn more about using media for the Great Commission. Learn more at…

http://www.create2020.com

…and the $25 gift from ConnecTEFL. Learn more about their online training in teaching English as a foreign language at…

http://connectefl.com
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14) The Last Bit: What’s the State of the Church in Your Country?

We’re not sure what it’s like for you in the churches in your country, but in the USA, it seems there are opinions across the board on the importance of the church. The Barna Group opened a can of worms in the USA when they surveyed some 4500 adults between May and August of 2013. They say their research could vary in its accuracy, plus or minus 3 points. Either way, it was sobering.

https://www.barna.com/research/americans-divided-on-the-importance-of-church/#.V-hxhLVy6FD

It was a “good news, bad news” kind of survey. On the one hand, around 4 out of 10 said they had been in church during the past week. So that’s good. That’s basically the same answer we’ve heard for decades. Maybe the media have been giving us “fake news” about throngs of people walking out of churches for good. Imagine: Out of the next 10 people you meet anywhere in the USA, there’s a fairly accurate chance that 4 out of the 10 are weekly church-goers! Yay!

However, before you get too excited, there was a fairly telling downward trend going on in the last 4 or 5 years of that survey. And what’s more [warning: bad news], 59% of the Millennials who grew up in church have dropped out at some point along the way. And the number reporting that they haven’t attended church at any point in the past 6 months has doubled — from 25% to 50% — just in the 4 years preceding this survey. 35% say they don’t attend church because the church isn’t relevant.

For the purposes of their survey, they considered participants as Millennials if they were born between 1984 and 2002, “Busters (or Gen-Xers),” if they were born between 1965 and 1983, Boomers if they were born between 1946 and 1964, and Elders if they were born 1945 or earlier.

Learn more about their findings in the little, book, “Sacred Roots: Why the Church Still Matters, available in eBook and paperback for five bucks at…

https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Roots-Frames-eBook-Matters-ebook/dp/B00FJ46X9Y

So what’s the state of the church in the country where YOU live? Please click “comment” following the web version of this item. And thanks in advance for your input.

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2017/07/16 — Brigada Today

Compiled/Edited by Doug Lucas and Tina McCormick, Team Expansion
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In this issue…
1) Fire In My Bones -A Missionary Story
2) How to Help a Near Neighbor “Reached” People Group Reach a UPG?
3) What Are You Hearing About the Training at Radius International?
4) Social Media Strategy Course Offering from MMU
5) Hindu World Prayer Focus
6) Awana Lifeline Gives Hope to the Hopeless Behind Bars
7) Get Equipped for Business as Mission
8) Reaching Refugees, Immigrants, and UPGs living among us in the U.S.
9) So is This Net Neutrality Thing for Real?
10) “ARM” Offers a Hand to Those Behind Bars
11) We Just Love LeRoy Eims’ Stuff: Here’s a Treasure Trove
12) How Does Your Org or Church Find Retreat Space?
13) We’re Grateful to…
14) The Last Bit: How do You Train New Believers?
15) Closing Stuff

1) Fire In My Bones -A Missionary Story

This is a book about Jeff Mills, a hardened British soldier whose life was dramatically changed by God, who ended up on the mission field in drug-ridden and corrupt Guatemala. Despite a tragic accident whilst in Guatemala, ending up in 15 major ops, he still planted churches, also in India in between each operation! This is a book to encourage would-be missionaries.

2) How to Help a Near Neighbor “Reached” People Group Reach a UPG?

Suppose, like our friend in China, you wanted to mobilize your people group in China to reach out to a minority people group, also in China? How would you get started? How would you connect your city with that minority unreached people group? How would you coach them? We’re familiar with the resources at…

http://www.U4theU.com/pace

and at…

https://kingdom.training/

(The latter site is designed to help you learn to use media to accelerate disciple making movements. The U4theU site is designed to help you pull together a network or project to stick with that vision over the long haul. Both are stellar.) But what resource(s) would you recommend? Please click “Comment” after this item on the web. Thanks for your help!

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