Brigada – 2024-03-31

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In this issue…
1) Learn Art and Animation
2) Portuguese Christian Resources
3) Digital Ministry Training Course
4) Get the Big Picture of Christianity Compared with World Religions
5) China Mandates “One School” Option
6) SYIS Online Courses
7) Missio Nexus Podcast
8) TESOL Training in Asia
9) Looking for a way to Blend Business as Mission with DMM?
10) Online Math Tutoring for your Student
11) Get Counseling with Spiritual Mentoring, all in Two Weeks
12) Get “Traction” for Men
13) We’re Grateful for…
14) A Nation in the Midst of Change
15) Closing Stuff

Interested in using art and animation to share the good news in a creative way with the unreached? Come and do Create International Taiwan’s Year of Art and Missions! Spend 5 months doing YWAM’s Discipleship Training School (DTS) in Danshui Taiwan, followed by our 24-week School of Cartooning and Animation for Missions (SoCAM). Both schools offer credit with the University of the Nations. The SoCAM will include a hands-on project creating a contextualized evangelistic animated short film for a UPG. The DTS begins September 11, 2017, and the SoCAM starts March 19, 2018. For more information, check out…

http://www.ywamtaipei.com/training/dts/

and

http://www.createtaiwan.com/socam

Are you looking for Christian resources in Portuguese? This website has information on Portuguese Christian books, Bibles, Evangelism Training, Audio, Dvds and more.

http://portuguesechristian.org
It’s like a treasure chest.

Do a zero-stress, do-at-your-own-pace, online Digital Ministry Training Course in 6 lessons: An Overview of Digital Ministry, Digital Content Creation, Mobile Ministry, Digital Content Distribution, Social Media and SEO & Conversion Funnels. About 4 hours a week will be required. There are no embarrassing forums to keep up, and no writing required. The org is Cybermissions, costs only $50USD, and starts April 10th, 2017 but you can start anytime and finish anytime. For more info, visit…

https://cybermissions.org/moodle/

I’ve gotta hand it to these guys at Gordon Conwell. Every time I meet with Bert Hickman or really *ANY* of them, they never cease to impress. In this article, they painstakingly picture Christianity in the global “big picture.”
http://www.gordonconwell.edu/ockenga/research/documents/2ChristianityinitsGlobalContext.pdf

You won’t regret reading this as a backgrounder to all things related to World Religions and their current growth / rate.

Our heart goes out to the home-schooling movement in China. If you were thinking China was opening its doors and granting its people more freedom, maybe revisit your assumptions. In this latest decision, as reported at…

https://www.hslda.org/hs/international/China/201703280.asp?utm_source=WU%20email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WU

it appears to us that the government has decided that socialist ideals are the official policy of the entire state and that it will mandate that *everyone* must embrace them. Can we join in prayer that somehow this decision is reversed or at least not enforced on a country-wide basis?

The Sharpening Your Interpersonal Skills Workshop is now available as a series of four online courses. SYIS Online courses are ideal for any Christ follower who wishes to truly become more loving and effective in their relationships with others. For more information, see…

http://www.itpartners.org

or contact ITP at
syisonline@itpartners.org for details.

Ted Esler is hosting a biweekly podcast featuring an interview each episode with a Great Commission activist. You will learn about the trends affecting missiology and the strategies behind the global Christian movement. Visit

https://missionexus.org/podcasts

for more information or simply search for “Missio Nexus” in your podcatching app.

Now you can get TESOL training designed for those in ministry set at a ministry budget. Asean 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 likely cheaper to fly out and take this course than it is to take the same course in N.A.! For the application forms or more information, email
infothai@actesol.com or see

http://www.actesol.com