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Are you a church-planter? Do you support church-planters? If so, you might find a winner or two by checking out the list at…
http://www.planterapps.com/
The list specializes in free or low-cost services geared toward helping church-planters with their ministries and personal lives. Several of the items have been featured in the past right here on Brigada.

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Empowerment, transformation, and innovation require Spirit-led communication skills. Join more than 300 leaders who have taken the 60-hour Core Coaching Skills Certificate Program, a unique training for mission leaders integrating Biblical values, professional coaching skills, and cross-cultural ministry. Learn in-person and by telephone. Programs in 2010: Seattle January 11-15; Singapore April 5-10; Kunming, China April [...]

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[ Here's an item that explains how to upgrade or replace an internal hard drive on a laptop, then draws a lesson & an observation about the determination that the process required.]
You know… I was thinking this past week… It really shouldn’t be this hard. I honestly think it’s easier to buy a *house* and [...]

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Learn from pioneers and practitioners of gospel-centered missional community, Feb. 4-6, 2010 in Austin, TX. This meeting is for pastors, church-planters, and those interested in the redemption and renewal of their community and city. Verge offers tools to build gospel movements in any environment. Speakers include Francis Chan, Hugh Halter, Alan Hirsch, David Garrison, Dave [...]

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Empowerment, transformation, and innovation take skill to produce. Join more than 300 leaders who have taken the 60-hour Core Coaching Skills Certificate Program, a unique training for mission leaders integrating Biblical values, professional coaching skills, and cross-cultural ministry. Can lead to ICF credentialing. Learn in-person and by telephone. Programs in 2010: Seattle January 11-15; Singapore [...]

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Whoa… This looks really good. Here are five practical training manuals which each offer 26 hours of instruction, sharing a vision for saturation church planting as well as practical principles and priorities for accomplishing local church plants. They’re designed for modular instruction in a working seminar format. The training schedule can be adapted for work/ministry [...]

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YWAM’s Church Planting Coaches, Brian, Joe, and Kevin, bring a collective 65 years of church planting experience in the Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Urban, Tribal and Western Worlds to team teach this dynamic workshop designed to equip pioneer church planters. This 13 DVD set includes: 26 Keys taught in individual, non-sequential sessions. You get a Syllabus [...]

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Discovering Church Planting: An Introduction to the Whats, Whys, and Hows of Global Church Planting by J. D. Payne releases soon. This comprehensive introduction addresses the biblical, historical, and missiological principles of church planting, while challenging missionaries to focus on applying such principles to their contexts. Read the forward by Hesselgrave:
http://northamericanmissions.org/files/Foreword%20to%20DCP%20Sample.pdf
 You can pre-order it from [...]

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Empowerment, transformation, and innovation take skill to produce. The 60-hour Core Coaching Skills Certificate Program, is a unique training for church multiplication leaders integrating Biblical values, professional coaching skills, and cross-cultural ministry. Learn in-person and by telephone. There are courses in London in February; Seattle in March; and Burgundy, France in June; Melbourne in August; [...]

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The Barnabas Factors: Eight Essential Characteristics of Church Planting Team Members was recently published by Missional Press. Author J. D. Payne, Director of the Church Planting Center at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, challenges missionaries across the globe to consider Barnabas as a model for healthy church planting teams. The Factors include: Walks with the [...]

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We’re grateful to the work of CLF in Philippines, on the web at…
http://www.clfphils.org/
They give their all to provide child care, medivangelism, Bible Studies, church planting, film evangelism, and a tape lending library to the lovely people of the Philippines. Now, their partnership and vision have not only supplied the needs of people in the Pacific, [...]

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Here’s a site where you can pick up useful ideas on what others are doing that maybe you can use or adapt to reach your world. It provides helpful links to resources, tools and information to assist in winning the world for Christ (mostly free or low cost). The Outreach Files is published by Beautiful [...]

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Empowerment, transformation, and innovation take skill to produce. Introducing the 60-hour Core Coaching Skills Certificate Program, a unique training for mission leaders integrating Biblical values, professional coaching skills, and cross-cultural ministry. Learn in-person and by telephone. They’re offering courses in Singapore October 13-17, 2008; Anaheim, California in November 10-14, 2008; and Burgundy, France in June [...]

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On August 29-31, House2House ministries will be hosting their yearly National House Church Conference in Dallas, TX.(See
http://www.house2house.com/
for more information) The theme this year is House2Harvest. There will be several tracks of interest. Brigada readers might be interested in the Missions Track focusing on reaching the unreached. There will also be a “roundtable discussion” following the [...]

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It’s slated for 6-17 October, ‘08, in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The Harvest Multiplication Training course, also known as Strategy Coordinator course, will train you to look at a whole people group, 4K zone or city and equip you to answer the question: “What actually needs to be done for *all* of this people group, 4K [...]

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The SOFM is an intensive Christian training course beginning with a 12-week lecture/teaching phase followed by field internship opportunities to apply what you have learned. The purpose of the SOFM is to give the candidates the most essential principles and tools needed to start long-term effective church planting movements among unreached people groups. As students [...]

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Chapin Living Waters exists to help poor people in third world countries grow vegetables when there is insufficient rain. They serve development groups, relief organizations, and mission groups working with people in third world countries. Their “Bucket Kits”, consisting of 100 feet of drip hose, fittings and connecting tubing, are ideal for poor families in [...]

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“Striking the Match: How God is Using Ordinary People to Change the World through Strategic Short-term Missions” by Missiologist, practitioner and Professor George G. Robinson, (D.Miss) is based on the premise that like a match, short-term missions must ignite something beyond themselves or they are a wasted resource. In an age when the concept of [...]

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In this issue…

DIALOGUE ABOUT THE TENSION DUTY TO MISSIONS VS DUTY TO FAMILY
TRANSFORMATION COMMUNITY BY COMMUNITY
A JOURNEY THROUGH SLUMS
CHURCH PLANTING MULTIPLICATION CONFERENCE IN JAPAN
UNREACHED PEOPLE SPOTLIGHT: THE HERERO
WOULD YOUR CHURCH GIVE A ONE-TIME GIFT TO BRIGADA
CLOSING STUFF

DIALOGUE ABOUT THE TENSION [...]

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In this issue…

COLLECTION OF “BACKPAGE” ‘COOL TOOLS FOR TRAVEL & MISSIONS’
HOW DO YOU STAY IN TOUCH WITH YOUR CONSTITUENCY (CRM SOFTWARE?)
SENIOR PASTORS STRATEGIC MISSIONS BRIEFING
HAVE YOU HEARD OF FORM TD F 90-22.1?
NEW SUPPORT-RAISING BLOG
GET PRE & MID FIELD RUSSIAN LANGUAGE TRAINING THIS FALL
‘EASY’ CHINESE BIBLE PORTIONS
NEW CHURCH-PLANTING TEXTBOOK: [...]

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In this issue…

TALKING BIBLES INTERNATIONAL SHARES EXCITING REPORT FROM AFRICA
WORLD EBOOK FAIR… TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE?
READ ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING PHASES FOR FREE
PORTABLE THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY
ONE GOD ONE MESSAGE: A NEW EFFECTIVE TOOL FOR REACHING MUSLIMS
STORIES NEEDED FROM PARENTS OF MISSIONARIES
WANT TO SHARE A RESOURCE FOR PARENTS OF MISSIONARIES?
LEARN [...]

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In this issue…

WHAT ARE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT WORDS TO LEARN FIRST?
WHERE DO YOU PURCHASE TRAVEL THESE DAYS?
“TRAIN & MULTIPLY” COURSE
ARE YOU A JOGGER IN THE UK/USA?
CHURCH-PLANTING MOVEMENT TRAINING (SINGAPORE IN JULY, 2007)
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR NEEDED
ANOTHER COLLABORATIVE SITE
NEW MISSION EDUCATION RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN
FINANCIAL MANAGER NEEDED
HEROIC PARTNERS DESERVE [...]

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