Brigada

If you have a coffee table, Johnstone’s new book, The Future of the Global Church, should be on it. In his typical excellent way, that only Patrick can write, he deals with 20 centuries of church history in one chapter (worth the price of the book by itself). And the chapter on “Nine Global Challenges” [...]

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Here’s a global research project that is seeking church-planting teams as a special focus for study. To be included, your team needs to be: * Experienced:  Teams that have been functioning for at least one year. * Missionary: Teams that are working in a culture other than their own, with plans to develop national leadership [...]

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TRAIN International offers a workshop called ACCESS (Assisting and Coaching Churches to Effectively Send and Sustain). They have openings on Saturday, July 9 for Columbus, Ohio and on Saturday August 13 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. These workshops address…   *** Missions Strategy in the Local Church *** Caring for Missionaries *** Caring for Missionary Kids *** [...]

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OK, so you’ve taken Perspectives or been to some event and are all jazzed up for missions only to come home to a church that is less than excited. How do you get a church mobilized? Or perhaps your church already has an overseas mission outreach but it is in need of some cobweb clearing? [...]

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Empowerment, transformation, and innovation require Spirit-led communication skills. Join more than 450 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. Catch upcoming programs in London April 4-8, 2011 and Denver May 9-13, [...]

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That’s what you get from these sites: https://trainandmultiply.com http://paul-timothy.net/ We’ve mentioned them before in Brigada, but it’s been a while. Allan, one of the guys in our Equipping Dept. at Team Expansion, sent out a note to our staff about them this past week and it reminded me it had been too long since we [...]

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Some time ago, Ralph Winter brilliantly identified three eras of modern missions: Era 1: William Carey focused on the coastlands; Era 3: Hudson Taylor focused on the inlands; Era 3: Donald McGavran and Cameron Townsend focused on unreached peoples. With all the fast and furious changes swirling around us today in twenty-first century missions, have [...]

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Become equipped to answer the question: “What actually needs to be done for ALL of this people group to have access to the Gospel and have multiple Church Planting Movements among them?” Harvest Multiplication Training is a learning environment where trainees interact with material and case studies presented, identify keys to facilitating church planting movements, [...]

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Just attend the “Interchange 2010″ workshop! It’s scheduled for December 1-2, 2010, at Brandywine Valley Baptist Church, Wilmington, DE, easily accessible from the Philadelphia airport. It’s designed for anyone with a passion to see the church of Jesus Christ mobilized to reach the ends of the earth, with a goal of helping you maximize the [...]

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Create International (a YWAM vision in Chiang Mai, Thailand) produces evangelistic, mobilization, and church-planting media resources for unreached peoples. They’re on the web at…. http://www.createthailand.com The School of Cartooning and Animation for Missions is a school designed to train missionary cartoonists. It’ll take place again in 2011.

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Over 1000 members from African pastors/leaders and those involved with missionary efforts to Africa have now joined the Africa Network BFTF in a little over a year and established connect groups for building fellowship, ministry opportunity and national unity in several nations. The Africa Network BFTF, aims to bring together African Christian churches, preachers and [...]

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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 [...]

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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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