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Angela wrote this past week, recalling, “Ralph D. Winter once mused that you can go, send or mobilize, but if you have a choice then choose mobilization because it’s a strategic contribution to missions if you can mobilize ten people to go in place of you as one.” She went on to remind us that [...]

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Because it portrays a story in one man’s childhood, it really isn’t showing much age, even though it’s been around for awhile. At 17 minutes, it’s a bit on the long side, but it’s also extremely engaging. It’s the true story from the early childhood experience of a Campus Crusade Student Venture director.
It’s a powerful [...]

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“The Journey Deepens” is a weekend retreat to help prospects explore what it is like to be a missionary, discover whether a missionary or sender role is God’s fit, and connect with mission agencies. This is for high school seniors, college students, young adults, mid-lifers, baby boomers – anyone willing to explore becoming a missionary. [...]

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Are you a mission organization seeking to recruit on college campuses? Southern Nazarene University’s Fall 2009 “mission week” (www.snu.edu/missions) will be September 28 to October 2. Thursday, Oct. 1, will be a “missions fair” day with organizations invited to set up a recruiting table in the university Commons (at no charge!).  For more info, contact [...]

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Catch this conference in Villa Park, IL, USA. It promises a set of unique interactive learning experiences that should give participants hands-on training from field practitioners experienced in holistic and indigenous church planting in some of the world’s most difficult places for ministry. For more information, contact

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This good question was raised in North Africa this past week. I guess I’m not the only one needing good help. My friend in North Africa listed these sample ideas: 

When considering whether someone would make a great teammate carefully examine his/her fruitfulness in the past.  If someone has great character and fruitfulness in another context [...]

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This morning I spoke in a church in northeastern Ohio. I used the missions video, “A Thousand Questions.” Whoa. It had a huge impact on this church of 220. After the video, you could have heard a pin drop… except for some lingering tears people were choking back… Someone was sobbing over at the side. [...]

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“Red Card: Standing Against Oppression, Providing Hope” is a dynamic, new curriculum from Caleb Resources that raises awareness of six different types of children at risk: children in poverty, orphans, street kids, child laborers, children of war, and children affected by HIV/AIDS. Designed for a cross-generational audience, this 8-week class builds family unity and empowers [...]

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It was a great one. See it at….

http://www.brigada.org/2009/03/29_1528#more-1528
The original query (by Brigada participant, Ed) was searching for something that an adult Sunday School class could do on missions. The 11 responses all contained great resources, books, videos, and courses. Thanks for all who pitched in.

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Want to help your kids learn more about missions around the world? Engage girls and boys with “Children in Action: Special Assignments.” This resource features more than 150 hands-on missions activities, Scripture memorization, and ministry ideas. Activity categories include praying for missions, giving to missions, learning about missions, doing missions, my church and missions, growing [...]

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Wycliffe’s Children’s Communications Team has posted a new service-learning curriculum called Scripture Poster Project at
http://www.wycliffe.org/Kids/FreeCurriculum.aspx
You will find interactive lessons on literacy, a colorful PowerPoint slide show on Uganda, games and a drama to help your children make a difference in the world today with the skills that they already possess. Your children get to use [...]

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I was thinking today about the quality job that the “Indonesian Peoples Network” (IPN) did with their book, Indonesian People Profiles: Unreached People Groups. It’s colorful, practical, informative, and comprehensive. Seemingly modeled somewhat after the Bethany Prayer Profiles that went around a few years ago, these people groups are, in a word, simply better. They’re [...]

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Recognize your kids’ accomplishments in missions with missions participation badges. WMU has several badges available, including “I Met a Missionary,” “Prayerwalking,” “Telling about Jesus,” and “World Hunger.” To order, click on “badges” at
http://www.wmustore.com
or call 1-800-968-7301 (USA callers can dial toll-free; others can call via Skype-out). Or email
 
 
for more information.

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Ralph D. Winter, 1924 – 2009Renowned Strategist Redirected Church’s Worldwide Mission EffortsRecognized by TIME magazine in 2004 as one of America’s 25 most influential evangelicals, Ralph D. Winter, a world-renowned scholar of Christian mission and the founder and creative activist in a wide range of mission initiatives, has died. He was 84.
Winter died Wednesday, May [...]

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Is there a better way to do missions? In this dvd series, church leaders from around the world are asked, “If you had one piece of advice you could give the church in North America, what would it be?” Hosted by Steve Saint who intertwines stories from his experience in the Ecuadorian jungle, the series [...]

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The Journey Deepens weekend retreats help prospective missionaries explore what it is like to be a missionary, discover whether a missionary or sender role is God’s fit, and connect with mission agencies. This is for high school seniors, college students, young adults, mid-lifers, baby boomers – anyone willing to explore becoming a missionary. Each retreat [...]

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Here’s an article by an atheist pointing out that, in his opinion, Africa would be made better by missionaries. Would you take a moment to read the article and comment on it? What’s your opinion about this atheist’s conclusions? (Thanks for the tip about this article, Shibu!)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article5400568.ece
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“The Journey Deepens” is a weekend retreat to help prospects explore what it is like to be a missionary, discover whether a missionary or sender role is God’s fit, and connect with mission agencies. This is for high school seniors, college students, young adults, mid-lifers, baby boomers – anyone willing to explore becoming a missionary. [...]

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(Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkey) Here’s a school that needs teachers for the 2009-2010 school year. Some positions are part or fully paid. They’re looking for an Elementary Principal, Secondary Principal, Vice Principal, Administrative Assistant, Accountant/Comptroller, Nurse, Librarian. Elementary teachers // Middle School: English, General, History, Science. // High School: Biology, English, History, Math, [...]

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Hats off to “Steve” for offering his missions video, “Waiting to Go” to the Brigada audience, free of charge. If you decide to use it, please remember to pray for him. He originally volunteered this video in a comment made to a previous Brigada item (Nov. 23, 2008).
Watch the video live, embedded below, by clicking [...]

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Some might find it interesting to be able to compare their summer internship count with their peer agencies. It’s a sluggish economy in several sending countries. Perhaps your agency is feeling the brunt of a downturn, … perhaps not. We won’t know for sure until we share. The cool part about this Brigada lense is [...]

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Want to learn about the needs of the Christian community around the world? The Issachar Network is developing a framework to connect Christians across the Globe. This is being accomplished through sharing ministry resources, skills, and cultural knowledge between Evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox Christian congregations, ministries and their leaders. They need your help in describing [...]

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