Brigada Today
23 of May, 1997
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Plus -- get this! The former head of the Zwemmer Institute (Dr. Robert Douglass, now a grad. Prof. at the Chicago Center for Urban Studies and a leader at the Central Asia Study Center) is leading a parallel track on Islam and its strategic implications for church planting in today's world. So send half your team with Shane, and the other half with Robert!
And bring along your church missions leaders, too! They'll want to take part in the specialized training for senders, held in yet a third track! You won't find training at a cheaper price anywhere in the world. And I dare say you probably won't find any higher quality either. So if you want a top notch experience, write Lisa MiddletonL@aol.com for more info. But you'd better act fast. Saturday's comin' soon! (Training co-sponsored by PACE "Pit-Stops," Caleb Project, Northeast Christian Church, Chicago Center for Urban Studies, and Team Expansion.)
They're great little guides... and
you'll need one per traveler. Also contains helps for preparing that slide
program -- You know the type, the "[Click]-Here's-the-toilet-we had to use;
[click] Here's where we had to eat lunch. [Click]...." Won't cut it
anymore. And who should know better than the Amdo Video guy!?!
We've been getting a great response to our
request for CD-ROMs that on-site workers can take abroad (in place of
barrels of books). Responses already in include dozens of works by Tozer,
Calvin, Luther, Wesley, The Early Church Fathers, Adam Clarke, and many
other writers. Reference works, Bibles, commentaries, inspirational,
language learning helps... they're building up one at a time. If you have
a favorite CD-ROM resource that you figure some missionary could use in the
field, just email the title, order information, and a brief paragraph
description to
DLucas@TeamExpansion.org with the subject line reading:
(Only items with those exact words in the subject line will be included in a new source file in the Brigada file archive beginning next week!) Let's put together a list of top notch CD-ROM resources for on-site workers! Don't forget to include price and source!
) I thanked him for speaking his mind.
Truth is, he's probably right.
If people are truly interceding for the least reached and if they're truly
asking God to raise up teams of evangelists and church planters to reach
them, then their ministry is every bit as valuable as that of the on-site
workers. Trouble is, those are the very people God ends up calling to the
field anyway!
If you don't believe me, just
read the prayer Jesus told
the disciples to pray at the end of Matt. 9, then see where it got them at
the opening of chap. 10!
The Tien Shan
School in Almaty, Kazakstan is looking for teachers for the 1997-98 school
year. The leadership there is especially desperate for a teacher for grade
3/4 and for high school science. The school serves the international
community of Almaty and uses English as the medium of instruction.
Teachers would need to be certified and would need to raise their own
support. For more information please contact
SGrandi@xc.org.
Anyway... "God is in
Control" is by Twila, not Kathy. Thanks to all those who filled me in!
(See
"GOD IS IN CONTROL" from last week's edition.)
A bunch of people do.
Help us find them. You see, Wheaton's Billy Graham Center has gone out
and gotten this big grant from the Christian Medical and Dental Society.
And with it, they're planning a "Consultation on Christian Medical, Dental,
and Health Ministries in the Former Soviet Union and East Central Europe."
(Now that's a mouthful!) It's coming Nov. 7-8, '97. Participants will
learn about clearing customs with med. supplies, public health, relief,
dental and church-based clinic ministries; published and on-line sources of
info. of use in med. and health ministries. For more info., write Mark
Elliott at
medical.conference@wheaton.edu. Looks like $50 would do it.
This is one to watch.
There is no more strategic mission initiative than to plant churches among
an unreached people, and church planting will be the theme of this year's
Gathering. Church planter par excellence Ralph Moore will be a featured
speaker. Gregg Parris, senior pastor of Union Chapel in Muncie, IN, will
update the group on his church's church planting team in Central Asia.
Sandy Mason, senior pastor of Grace Fellowship Church in Baltimore will
share of his church's experience partnering with a mission agency. And
Bill Thrall, founding pastor of Open Door Fellowship in Phoenix, will
address the issue of developing leaders who are Godly in character. The
Gathering will take place August 21-24 in Phoenix. For registration
materials write:
Antioch Network
5060 North 19th Avenue, Suite 312,
Phoenix, AZ 85015
or phone 1-602-242-4414
or email
74552.2423@compuserve.com. I attended the '96 Gathering and it was
great. George Miley and the entire Antioch Network crew are doing a
super job with these meetings. When I grow up, or if I'm reincarnated as a
different person, I want to be George Miley.
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