Brigada – 2024-04-14

Are you looking for some free discipleship resources in several languages? Two of the newest languages completed of “The Global Gospel” are Sindhi (India and Pakistan) and Swahili (Kenya and Tanzania).
This series of short videos presents the life and teachings of Jesus using colorful illustrations and dramatic Bible readings.
Access all the languages of this tool through “The GNPI App” or online through YouTube and Vimeo.

Four times each year, TRAIN International hosts ABIDE, a 5-day re-entry debriefing for cross-cultural workers. You can register now for the April 9-14 session. Participants connect with other global workers, process their experiences, gain insight into navigating reverse culture shock and more. The whole family is debriefed, with children and youth having their own sessions.

TRAIN International is also offering ORIENT pre-field cultural adaptation training April 24 – May 7. Get better equipped for cross-cultural service in key areas such as developing cultural discernment and acquisition, maintaining spiritual vitality, cultivating conflict resolution skills and more. The whole family is trained, with children and youth having their own training sessions.
Visit their website for more info at:

http://traininternational.org/Training.html

… The folks at FrenchChristian.org, who pitched in $50 toward helping Brigada — and yet, they don’t make a dime off their own website. What amazing champion friends! Thank you!
… GREAT friends from Chesapeake, VA, who sent $700 this past week to help spur Brigada onward for Christ’s sake and for the sake of unreached peoples. God bless you!!! This donor wrote, “I want this $700 gift to serve as encouragement for others to match this amount or portions of this amount to go towards fulling funding the worthy Brigada budget. Brigada is such an encouragement to my Revelation 7:9 vision and the completion of the Great Commission.” If you’d like to match all or part of this donor’s gift (wow — would we really thank you and God!), please click “Donate” at www.brigada.org, or mail a check payable to Team Expansion (Brigada), 13711 Willow Reed Drive, Louisville, KY 40299. Team Expansion is a 501(c)3 incorporation so, for USA citizens, your gift to Christ through Team Expansion is tax-deductible. Thank you, in advance, for your partnership!

These days, there’s quite a bit going on over at our sister site,
http://www.MoreDisciples.com

First, find a new podcast there featuring an interview with “Mac,” Lisa, and Bob from Jacksonville, FL, along with a follow-up analysis with Eric D. The audio was challenging (in a noisy outdoor cafe) but the message is worth the listen. Mac and Lisa are trying to figure out how to make their discipling count for more. They have questions about how to disciple their kids, how to wire in the accountability piece, and much more. Meanwhile, Bob, their Exec. Pastor, is asking questions related to the 2000-person megachurch that they all attend. He’s done lots of research and they’ve tried a bunch of things. See how it all sorts out at…

http://moredisciples.com/2017/01/25-wired-for-this/

And while you’re there, don’t miss the fact that the MoreDisciples “30-Day Challenge” is now available in Russian! Please let all your Russian-speaking friends know. Learn more at…

http://moredisciples.com/signup/

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In this issue…

1) Traction Conference For Men
2) Get your TEFL Certificate Online
3) Reaching Japanese for Christ Conference
4) Three STM Devotional Bible Study Journals
5) Church Based Business as Mission (CBBM)
6) Excellerate Conference
7) Foundations of Media Strategy course
8) Launch of new website for Christians from a Muslim Background
9) Worship Leader App For All Languages
10) Concerned about Whether a site is “Spammy?”
11) New Amazon card gives 5% back on all Purchases
12) World Time Buddy app on Mobile will Keep You on Track
13) We’re grateful for…
14) The Last Bit: Rahmud’s Story – Forcibly Displaced in Sicily
15) Closing Stuff

Traction is a 6-day renewal experience September 20-26, 2017 for men working cross-culturally. The week includes worship, teaching, counseling, medical consultation, outdoor activities, and personal reflection in Interlaken, Switzerland. Individuals and teams are welcome. Find more details at

http://www.catalystintl.org

Check out this short clip on Traction:

https://vimeo.com/catalystintlorg

Get Professional TEFL Certificate Online to get job overseas in Teaching English As A Foreign Language. Get trained to teach English to arriving refugees or to obtain genuine work abroad! Start anytime with this Online Course! ConnecTEFL is an affordable 120 hour 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.
For more info, visit…

http://connectefl.com

The 16th annual Reaching Japanese for Christ International Conference is set for Feb. 16-18. The theme is “Faithfully Using The Talents Entrusted To Us,” with a pre-conference theme, “Reaching Japanese for Christ with the Arts and Pop-Culture.” The speaker is Makoto Fujimura, Director of Brehm Center, is an artist, writer, and speaker who is recognized worldwide as a cultural shaper, along with Yuichi Kawano, Pastor of Midori Christ Church in Nagoya. To learn more, visit…

http://rjcnetwork.org/conferences/2017-rjc-international-conference/2017-rjc-international-conference-information/

Deeper Roots Pubs has introduced 3 different short-term mission devotional Bible study journals. Each 3-part book has 7 Pre-Field studies, 14 On-Field studies, (sequenced to the culture-shock curve} and 14 reentry studies (sequenced to reentry stress issues). Now you can undergird your teams with these valuable resources.

https://deeperroots.com/shop/mission-resources/walk-as-he-walked-combo-3-part-book-616wahwcombo/