15) Closing Stuff
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In this issue…
1) Muslims are leaving Islam: How should the church respond?
2) More Help for Preparing Teachers Heading Overseas
3) FreeConferenceCall.com is Giving GoToWebinar a Run for the Money
4) Calling all Storytellers: Give us Your Best Story Set Collections
5) Mindmapping Software Will Help You Get Your Head Together
6) Missions Book Wrapped In Science Fiction
7) “Jesus Was a Refugee,” by Patrick Johnstone and Dean Merrill
8) Scripture Prayers for the Peoples of the World
9) Have you Read “Global Church Planting?” What did you think?
10) With Valentine’s Day Approaching, Try this Free Bible Study on Love
11) Seminar on “Target Hardening and Resiliency”
12) Debriefing Opportunity in March
13) GMI Releases Cool New InfoGraphic: “Ambassadors”
14) The Backpage: The Hofstede Center Can Clue You In
15) Closing Stuff
1) Muslims are leaving Islam: How should the church respond?
Horizons International’s Legacy Conference is coming up June 23-24, 2016. Organizers hope it will provide insight and resources for helping the millions of Muslims who appear to be leaving Islam in their hearts, even though they don’t know what’s next. You’ll hear from plenary speakers like Nabeel Qureshi, Abdu Murray, Jay Smith, John Span, Georges Houssney and Don McCurry. Their goal? Equip you to lead lost Muslims to salvation in Jesus Christ and to refute the cultural seductions of the spirit of the age. Register now and receive Early Bird Pricing:
2) More Help for Preparing Teachers Heading Overseas
If you’re headed overseas to teach, you can pick up additional preparation at…
http://www.transformingteachers.org
They’ll help you sort out your calling, ratchet up your commitment, and increase your competency.
3) FreeConferenceCall.com is Giving GoToWebinar a Run for the Money
First, let me confirm — we still have our monthly subscription with GotoWebinar. And yes, we just ran a webinar this past Thursday for 50 people using Cyrix’s flagship webinar product. But the more we look at FreeConferenceCall.com’s offerings and the more we try them out, the more we’re wondering — why are we dumping $100/month with Cyrix when the folks at FreeConferenceCall.com have put together a stupendous product for free? Yes, our GoToWebinar subscription will allow us to pull together [literally] 10,000 listeners for one event. But admittedly, the largest true webinar we’ve ever staged barely hit 70 viewers. (We once partnered with a local church to stage a broadcast that drew 10,000 viewers. Once. But we used uStream for that anyway. So again, why are we keeping this GoToWebinar deal?) FreeConferenceCall.com doesn’t require attendee downloads, they’re free for up to 25 users (which takes care of many needs) and they added screensharing earlier this month. They have cool apps for multiple devices. Videoconferencing is free (for a limited time). Cyrix — please hear us well: We’re about to jump ship. Try them. See what you think. Please comment about your experiences.
http://www.FreeConferenceCall.com
For mission-types, if the quality is good enough, the name says it all. Check out their features at…
4) Calling all Storytellers: Give us Your Best Story Set Collections
For those interested in orality, there’s nothing like crafting a great story precisely for the relevant context. And one of the most effective ways to prime the story-crafting pump is to study existing story sets that others have crafted. If you have a great collection of stories, please click comment below this item on the web. Here are two to get us started.
https://orality.imb.org/resources/?t=13
https://imbresources.org/index.cfm/product/detail/prodID/902/page/1
Where do YOU go for story sets?
5) Mindmapping Software Will Help You Get Your Head Together
We asked last week for mindmapping software and you delivered! One of the comments came from Andrew, who pointed us to …
http://www.biggerplate.com/mindmapping-software
where experienced mindmappers have united to make some great recommendations for us for now and in the future. Thanks for participating in Brigada, Andrew!
6) Missions Book Wrapped In Science Fiction
From a leading authority on orality (Mark Snowden) comes “Canmar Passing” – a wild ride to bring hope to a people group who have rejected literacy but need to hear and act on the Story of Hope that will save them from destruction. The plot sounds like something straight from Redbox: One of Jupiter’s moons has been knocked out of its orbit by a deadly asteroid cluster kicking thousands of humanoids into space. When our world learns the moon is headed directly toward Earth, an astronaut team tries to reach them. When they are trapped, new Ambassadors jump onto Canmar as it passes Earth. You’ll have to read the book for the full story. It’s available in paperback and on Kindle at:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_14?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=canmar+passing&sprefix=canmar+passing%2Caps%2C218
7) “Jesus Was a Refugee,” by Patrick Johnstone and Dean Merrill
We have to admit, when we see the name, “Patrick Johnstone,” we pretty much look for the “Buy now” button. Has the guy ever produced anything that was bad? So we’re drawn to the new GMI Digital Single, “Jesus was a Refugee” as much by the author’s name as we are by the title. Learn more about the plight of migrants while you’re tuning up on your Bible knowledge (about refugees in the Bible). Check it out at…
8) Scripture Prayers for the Peoples of the World
Praying Scripture is praying God’s way. “Scripture Prayers for the Peoples of the World” is a very cool 24-page booklet with scripture prayers declaring God’s truth over peoples living in falsehood. Unlike many prayer resources that share demographic data or prayer points, this tool is different in that it allows you to insert the name of a people group into scripted prayers oriented in the Biblical text. When praying the text, you can know with full assurance that you are praying that which is on God’s heart. With scripture prayers superimposed on full color images, this booklet is available for USD $7/copy ($5/copy for bulk orders over 10) plus shipping. View sample pages at
http://reverbnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/SP.pdf
or email resources@ReverbNetwork.org to place an order. We LOVE this idea and we can’t wait to try it!
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