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Know anyone who is preparing to learn another language? TRAIN International still has spaces open at the “Acquire” training in Joplin, MO from March 15-26, 2010. Eric Derry will be the lead trainer at this two-week intensive training which empowers cross-cultural workers with the best known current strategies and tools in language acquisition. At Acquire, [...]

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The BodyBuilders “Personal Support Raising Boot Camp” is a two day intense training for first-time support raisers and under-funded veterans. The goal: Getting you to 100% in 100 days! Learn more at…
http://www.thebodybuilders.net
or email

Upcoming Boot Camp dates:

Phoenix, AZ—February 17-18, 2010
Iowa City, IA—March 5-6, 2010
Greenville, SC—March 18-19, 2010
Bellflower, CA—April 22-23, 2010
Champaign, IL—May 27-28, 2010
Nashville, TN—June 15-16, 2010

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Don’t miss the Ekballo Equipping Conference, March 3-7 and 10-14 in Kansas City. There, Elijah Company will present four days of intensive missionary training. Formerly called Missionary Training Camp, this workshop will feature many of the same topics but with a greater prayer focus. In the shadow of the Kansas City International House of Prayer [...]

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Looking for Holistic Microfinance and Microenterprise Development Training For those ministering to the poor in Africa, Asia and Latin America? Look no further. The Chalmers Center offers a series of three distance courses. The initial course, Foundations and Principles of Holistic Ministry, is designed to help you understand appropriate goals and strategies for conducting church-based [...]

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Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization (ECHO) is offering a one-week course called “Introduction to Tropical Agricultural Development” February 22 – 26 and May 3 – 7. ECHO is a Christian non-profit organization based in Fort Myers, FL which is equipping those serving internationally with resources and skills to reduce hunger and improve the lives of [...]

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The majority of home-assigned missionaries struggle on low support. One recently confessed to Jerry at Kingdom Come Training, “I’m 54 and scared of getting older. We don’t have insurance, no retirement fund and we both have to work second jobs in order to survive.” The half-dozen or so mid-career, home assigned missionaries that have found [...]

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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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Because NCC seeks to prepare servants who can represent Christ anywhere in the world, NCC’s mission program seeks to develop -

Flexible cross-cultural skills – ready to go where He sends.
Adaptable language learning skills – ready to speak to all who will listen.
Effective ministry skills – ready to speak to every need.
Useful theological skills – ready [...]

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Daniel wrote this past week to tip us off to a new organization…
http://www.edenvigil.org
Gotta love it. They aren’t a sending organization. Rather, they work *with* sending organizations to train, prepare, and send you as an “eco-missionary.” Suddenly, it’s ok to be a tree-hugger! :-) They’ve partnered with another group…
http://www.careofcreation.net
which will come to your church and do [...]

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Global Opportunities’ research showed overwhelmingly that California is a preferred course location. After a five-year gap, the GO team is excited to offer it again on October 21-25, 2009 at the US Center for World Mission in Pasadena. Who should attend? Anyone with a desire to integrate work and witness and to be effective using [...]

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Bob and the guys at Crisis Consulting Int’l have been at it pretty much as long as I remember. CCI is offering another training seminar in October to assist those in the missions community with security and training needs. It’s scheduled for October 21-23 at the JAARS campus in Waxhaw, North Carolina. It’s a three-day [...]

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OM Russia is offering special one or two year discipleship courses in Russia in Russian.  Participants need to understand Russian to a good level and will train alongside other Christian Russian young people.  In addition to seminars on Bible interpretation, preaching, children’s work, and missiology, they offer ‘hands-on’ experience in real life ministry situations.  Check [...]

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Take a look at it today…

http://www.brigada.org/training/
To use the site, send your proposed user name, along with a paragraph of your proposed training course, to:

If your course is a match for Brigada’s long-term goals for training cross-cultural workers, we’ll invite you to make an initial donation to Brigada/Training. The amount is up to you ($125 suggested). [...]

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Equip your people with fundamental, scripture-based skills to become more harmonious and efficient within your team. Reduce the incidence of missionary attrition caused by interpersonal conflict with other missionaries. Christar missionaries experienced in training missionary teams can travel to your location and train intact teams in three three-hour sessions. Call (USA) +1.703.378.7095 or Skype jimandsue2. [...]

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Catch Training for Trainers in Oregon, Sept. 13-18… or if that’s too quick, Catch Marion, NC, Sept. 27 – Oct. 2. Need even more time? Attend at Camby, IN, Oct. 26-31. Learn more about all these Training of Trainers programs at
http://www.chenetwork.org/che_traininginfo.php

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It’s scheduled for August 21-22, 2009, from 12pm to 8pm Friday and 8am to 4:30pm Saturday. The cost is $175 per person or $80 refresher course (covers food/materials). The venue is Southeast Christian Church, 920 Blankenbaker Parkway, Louisville, KY  40243. The registration deadline is officially past … so you’ll have to inquire about being included.
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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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Thanks to Randy (a YWAM staff development guy) for calling our attention back to Ken’s great articles at the ITP site:
http://www.itpartners.org/articles.htm
There are some great topics there… “Key issues in Debriefing,” “Fifty Ways to Express Gratitude to Partners in the Ministry,” “The Interactive Process in Pre-field Training,” and much much more. Thanks for your unselfish spirit [...]

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The Blind Spot in Christian missions — Literacy and Evangelism International is hosting International Literacy Training Institutes in Ghana, Guatemala, the Ivory Coast, and USA. Topics include Basic Literacy, developing Bible-content literacy materials in local languages, Evangelism through literacy, Discipleship through literacy, teaching English as a Second Language, how to train tutors, and how to [...]

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3) UK MISSION NEWS & SCHOOL OF MISSIONS CELEBRATES 34 MILLION HITS — Les from the UK e-mailed Doug recently to say thank you to Brigada participants for giving him the vision and the encouragement way back in 2001 to launch his free World Mission News and School of Missions website
http://www.dci.org.uk/
for leaders and believers [...]

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Would you like to learn how to learn about other cultures, develop skill in initiating and building cross-cultural relationships, and dream with God for his kingdom among least evangelized peoples? Good news: details are firmed up for an Exploring the Land ethnography training In Louisville, KY with Team Expansion and others. It will run from [...]

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TRAIN International, based in Joplin, MO, offers cross-cultural training that is affordable, customizable, and mobile. They have several types of training available: pre-field training (June 1-19), language acquisition training (September 7-18), debriefing (Aug 3-7 and Oct. 5-9), church coaching to help churches send and sustain their missionaries (scheduled as needed), short-term trip leaders training (scheduled [...]

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