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1) Johnstone’s “Future of the Global Church” Can Be Yours! –

brigtoday — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:59:32 +0000

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” could develop into an entire semester-long course, by the same title. But then, so could the chapter on major world religions, “The Unevangelized,” and “Church Missions and the Future.” You can get the book as a PDF, so it won’t take up any space on your shelves! But the printed version is one-of-a-kind. Use the website below, which will provide the printed version or a PDF at reduced prices:

http://www.thefutureoftheglobalchurch.org/

9) Global Study Seeks Church-Planting Teams –

brigtoday — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:51:17 +0000

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 for the church.

* Church Planting: Teams actively working to establish a church capable of reproducing a culturally relevant ministry with its own leadership.

* Teams: Teams with a designated leader.

* English speaking: The research will be conducted in English.

* Internet access: The research will require internet access and email capability.

10) Get Church Coaching for your Missions Team —

brigtoday — Mon, 23 May 2011 03:50:17 +0000

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

*** Effective short term mission trips

Find more information at

http://www.traininternational.com

or call Mark at 417-621-8962

9) What’s a church to do? –

brigtoday — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 04:51:46 +0000

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? ACMC specializes in getting churches mobilized and trained for missions and there are two conferences coming up that you’ll want to check out; one in Pittsburgh on March 25-26 and one in Maryland on April 8-9. There are workshops on everything from Islam to teaching missions to children to churches adopting unreached people groups to missionary care. Learn more at…

http://www.acmc.org/conferences

Get an online brochure and/or register. Other questions, contact Joe at

jsteinitzgfcorg or Dave at

dashivegmailcom

6) Coaching Training For Church Multiplication —

brigtoday — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:54:47 +0000

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, 2011. Save US$450 by registering early. Go to

http://www.creativeresultsmanagement.com/courses/coaching01.htm

for details. Or email

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6) Church Planting + Leadership Development + Mentoring —

brigtoday — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 04:54:15 +0000

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 mentioned them here. Last we heard, the Paul-timothy materials are free and available in English, Chinese, Spanish, and various languages of India. Train & Multiply comes with a fee and, in Allan’s words, “is also in a bazillion languages.” (That must be a scientific number/term because, if I recall, he has his Ph.D. in Chemistry or Physics. :-) Thanks Allan.)

8) New Book Explores Trends on Unreached peoples –

brigtoday — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 04:52:42 +0000

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 we entered a Fourth Era? If so, who are the people primarily involved? How are they selected? How are they trained? How long do they serve? Has the Third Era ministry focus – reaching the unreached – changed? If so, to what? Are there any successful case studies out there? Have McGavran and Townsend passed the baton to a new leader(s)? If so, to whom? This book by Tom Steffen seeks to answer these and related questions.

http://wipfandstock.com/store/The_Facilitator_Era_Beyond_Pioneer_Church_Multiplication

(That line will wrap. If you have trouble, just use the link below to navigate to the Brigada page, then click and find the book from there.)

3) Best Practices in CPMs for UPGs —

brigtoday — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:57:34 +0000

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, and are coached to develop and implement plans unique to reaching their focus people. The course runs February 5-15, 2011 in Orlando, Florida. For more information, email

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or telephone/Skype-out: +1-407-852-3713 for an application. For more information, including other trainings scheduled throughout the world, see:

http://www.harvestmultiplication.com

9) How to Mobilize Next-Generation Churches for Missions –

brigtoday — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:51:59 +0000

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 missions role of next-generation church leaders, use business-as-mission to mobilize the whole church, leverage short-term missions, maximize your missions budget, and more. Learn more at…

http://www.catalystservices.org/about/IConf-10.shtml

2) Finally: A School that Wants you to Draw in Class! –

brigtoday — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:58:40 +0000

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.

9) Growing The Church In Unity Across Africa

brigtoday — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:51:10 +0000

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 missionaries co-operating for Africa. As a social network it provides opportunity for building a ministry profile, showing photos and videos, posting blogs and forum discussions, but its greatest value is in seeing pastors and leaders connect with others to provide a benefit to the body of Christ. Learn more at…

http://bftfafricanetwork.ning.com

8) Take A Look At These Free/Cheap Church-Planter Apps

brigtoday — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:52:52 +0000

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.

1) Coaching Training for Church Multiplication

brigtoday — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:59:01 +0000

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 19-23; Colorado Springs May 17-22; and Burgundy, France in September 12-17. Save US$450 by registering early. Go to

http://www.creativeresultsmanagement.com/courses/coaching01.htm

for details. Or email

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