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3) Free Sherwood Lingenfelter lectures Now on iTunes —

November 13th, 2011 · No Comments

That’s right. In the spirit of giving away education to the nations, Fuller Theological Seminary has now released the entire “Culture & Transformation” course online via iTunes. Yes, if you’re not an iTunes user already, you’ll have to download and install iTunes to listen, but it’s a free install and you can always uninstall it [...]

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10) Online Tool for Helping you Educate Children on the Field —

October 9th, 2011 · No Comments

PACE, the Professional Association of Cross-Cultural Consultants in Education, is offering an online course called “Education Planning for Families in Transition” for sending agencies to use in preparing parents to educate their children overseas. PACE will train your MK/TCK education consultant to facilitate this online course, and then your consultant will guide families through the [...]

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11) Ebook: “Spiritual Survival Handbook” for Cross-Cultural Workers –

April 8th, 2011 · No Comments

Pioneers (in partnership with BottomLine Media) has a new eBook entitled, “Spiritual Survival Handbook for Cross-Cultural Workers,” (Miller), now available on paperback via the Pioneers webstore.   http://www.cartpioneers.org/products/Spiritual-Survival-Handbook-for-Cross%252dCultural-Workers.html (That URL will wrap; but just go to brigada.org, find the original item, then click the link there.)   Available via Paperback if you’d rather have a [...]

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6) Hearing Great Things about this Multicultural Congregation Book –

November 21st, 2010 · No Comments

Check it out at… http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Cross-Ocean-Reach-World/dp/0800794478 Author David Boyd operated by the principle, “The key to reaching the nations with the gospel is to first reach the stranger who dwells among us.” So he set about identifying and equipping bicultural people to share God’s love across borders of race, culture, and language. What happened? A way [...]

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4) Correction on that free ebook for Cross-culturally-wedded couples –

October 31st, 2010 · 6 Comments

Back in the Sept. 26 edition, we featured an item that was supposed to be a  book about cross-cultural couples. However, the link apparently was garbled in the item. Today we’re publishing two items to make up for it. The first is a chapter from a larger book on marriage. This chapter, “I’m Marrying a [...]

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1) Successful Cross-Cultural Partnerships —

October 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

The Daniel Rickett Group now trains churches and agencies in starting, strengthening, and evaluating cross-cultural ministry partnerships. For those new-to-ministry alliances, classes teach fundamentals of partnership, how to choose the right partner, how to discover common ground, and how to establish a covenant relationship. Existing alliances are strengthened as they learn the tools to repair [...]

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2) A free ebook for Cross-culturally-wedded couples — (Edited)

September 26th, 2010 · 8 Comments

We all know, intuitively, that those who choose to marry across cultures (husband from one country or culture, wife from a different one) face extra challenges. (It’s hard enough for a couple when both spouses are from the *same* background, for Pete’s sake.) Well here are a few books that can help them sort it [...]

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