13) Would you Consider a Gift to Brigada? Join these Donors…
…Mission Data Int’l for their recent gift of $200 for unreached peoples through Brigada. God bless you!!! Learn more about Mission Data at…
…Insurance Services of America, who recently shared gifts of $49.56, $33.67, and $21.67, in recognition of Brigada participants who had purchased trip interruption insurance through their office. Thank you to ISA and thank you also to the faithful Brigada fans who went to…
http://www.missionaryhealth.net/brigada/
and purchased their trip interruption insurance, as well as other types of policies. From those purchases, ISA sends these gifts. Thank you!
…The Missionary Training Service, who, this past week, sent $50. Don’t miss their new Evangelical Training Directory. Learn more at …
http://www.etdi.org
…The Mobile Ministry Forum, who just sent a gift of $35. God bless you!
…The friend of Brigada who wrote this past week to ask why we’re suggesting that Brigada fans focus on the week of November 14th for giving. We answered that we merely hoped that by picking a single week to give, we could finish the entire year’s budget in a compact amount of time. Our friend answered, “Brigada is such a wealth of integrated eclectic valuable input for missionaries and other world Christians; it’s terrific! I am way glad to help.” He said, “He’s already saved up. No need to wait,” and decided to go on and send a gift sooner rather than wait until November 14th. Awesome! Either way, this Thanksgiving, would you consider making an offering gift to Brigada? If you can, please do what you can to come up with $100. Then on November 14th (or sooner, if you prefer : ) , just 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. If you’d rather give online, just click “Donate” in the upper right corner at brigada.org . In advance, please hear us when we say, “Thank you!” And God bless!!!
14) The Last Bit: Will Second Language Acquisition Die? Should it?
Is it just my imagination? … or are more and more missionaries assuming they will “train nationals because they understand better the language and culture?” Maybe it’s due to economic realities. Churches and foundations want to stretch every dollar so that it can be as efficient as possible. Or maybe it’s pragmatic: Recent shifts in strategy involve training nationals to multiply ministry anyway. So why bother with language acquisition, especially when national partners already speak English anyway?
How would we determine if these questions truly identify a system in flux? Has anyone done a careful study to analyze critically any possible shifts in cross-culturally workers and their desire to learn heart languages? … and have we mapped that desire over time? And if these values are changing (if we’re putting less emphasis on learning the heart language of the people we hope to reach), how might it affect our abilities to reach them? For example, in a recent study reported in the journal, “Science,” (March 17, 2015), researchers concluded, “By having another language, you have an alternative vision of the world.” (Learn more about this study at…
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/03/speaking-second-language-may-change-how-you-see-world )
If this study’s conclusions say what I THINK they are saying, the implication is — people who learn a second language have a different lense… a broader base through which they can analyze the second culture. So maybe those who DON’T, see a narrower vision of reality. Could this end up hindering the expansion of the Kingdom? … and could it hinder enough to matter?
What’s your view on learning a second language? How likely will you be to learn the language of the people you plan to reach? Have you encountered peers with less commitment to do so than you observed in previous epochs in missions history? Please click “comment” at the web version of this item. And thanks for your willingness to take part in this discussion.
15) Closing Stuff
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2016/10/02 — Brigada Today:
Compiled/Edited by Doug Lucas and Tina McCormick, Team Expansion
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In this issue…
1) Tentmaking Briefs in 195 countries
2) Do You Know How To Multiply Churches, Disciples And Leaders?
3) GNPI to Launch a New App during ICOM
4) Training African Missionary Techies
5) Change the World School of Prayer Now FREE Online!
6) Dick Eastman to Teach Lesson 5 for Free in a Live-streamed Event
7) Learn How to Make Disciples who Make Disciples — in 2 Days!
8) Want to Learn How to do Missionary/Member Care?
9) Getting Married then Going Cross-Culturally? Grow a Lifetime Love
10) New Book on Autism
11) Last Edition of Brigada Lacked the “www”
12) If You Like MindMapping Apps — and you use Windows
13) We’re Grateful for…
14) The Last Bit: Would You Consider Brigada?
15) Closing Stuff
1) Tentmaking Briefs in 195 countries
Tentmaking Briefs, the only publication focused only on tentmaking missions, is now 7 years old and being read in 195 countries. The October issue contains items, “The day I met Qaddafi” and “Songs for an underground church,”
www.globalopps.org/tmb
(Thanks Global Opportunities!)
2) Do You Know How To Multiply Churches, Disciples And Leaders?
Do you need a strategy in reaching the lost? Are you making disciples who make disciples? Does your church plant new churches? Are you multiplying leaders for Jesus? Join the folks at MoreDisciples on Oct. 19th at Noon EST as Troy Cooper from #noplaceleft discusses these questions and more. Register for free at…
http://moredisciples.com/webinars/
For questions or for more information please email info@MoreDisciples.com.
3) GNPI to Launch a New App during ICOM
During the International Conference on Missions (ICOM), November 17-20, GNPI will launch a new app. They wanted to let their friends at Brigada see it first.
http://gnpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Iphone-Screenshot-e1473880675897.png
Looking for resources to help Christian workers tell the Gospel story effectively? The GNPI App shows how the Good News is being shared throughout the world.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-gnpi-app/id1149007709?ls=1&mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bluebridgechurches.goodnewsproductions&hl=en
The GNPI App is a connection to many of the exciting ways media and technology are accelerating global evangelism.
4) Training African Missionary Techies
It is exciting to see so many countries now sending missionaries of their own. But many of the current missionary-sending countries are part of the Global Digital Divide, and are lacking the technology to properly support those missionaries. The ICCM conference, which has been training mission techies in the USA, Australia, and Europe for 25 years, is now in Africa. Consider sending your African techies to ICCM-Africa.
5) Change the World School of Prayer Now FREE Online!
In the old days, you might have paid $40 for the VHS version. Or maybe you ordered the DVD’s for less. Either way, now you can see Dick Eastman’s well-known “Change the World School of Prayer” for free at…
http://www.ehc.org/ctwsop-on-demand
Why wouldn’t every single praying Christian make time to view this course? AND… (see the item below)
6) Dick Eastman to Teach Lesson 5 for Free in a Live-streamed Event
Catch Dick Eastman teaching “The Prayer Warrior’s Prayer Program,” Saturday morning, October 15th, as part of the 40th Anniversary edition of The Change the World School of Prayer. This transformational teaching has instructed and inspired over 3 million people around the world. In Lesson Five, The Prayer Warrior’s Prayer Program, you’ll explore the three keys to a practical prayer encounter and learn to cultivate a 12-step prayer plan. Dick Eastman and Jesse Engle, Director of Prayer at Every Home for Christ, will teach on this powerful topic. You don’t want to miss it! All participants receive a free Student Guide. And, if you live in the Colorado Springs area, go in-person to The Jericho Center, 640 Chapel Hills Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80920, 9am to noon. If you live in the rest of the world, join Dick and Jesse “live,” 9am to noon MDT in the USA, at…
http://www.ehc.org/ctwsop?bblinkid=27688033&bbemailid=2158492&bbejrid=146533645
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