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Brigada Today
17 Aug 2007
In this issue...
- DIALOGUE ABOUT THE TENSION DUTY TO MISSIONS VS DUTY TO FAMILY
- TRANSFORMATION COMMUNITY BY COMMUNITY
- A JOURNEY THROUGH SLUMS
- CHURCH PLANTING MULTIPLICATION CONFERENCE IN JAPAN
- UNREACHED PEOPLE SPOTLIGHT: THE HERERO
- WOULD YOUR CHURCH GIVE A ONE-TIME GIFT TO BRIGADA
- CLOSING STUFF
- DIALOGUE ABOUT THE TENSION DUTY TO MISSIONS VS DUTY TO FAMILY -- Handpiece is a small, viral, ministry of short term dental mission trips where we train nationals in primary dental care. Mike, the dentist behind this ministry, has three grown children who are not dentists. Mike's children have other gifts, talents, and training, that would be valuable in missions. Should Mike continue to do dental discipleship with other like-minded, like-trained dentists, or should he give thought to coordinating his efforts with the mission interests of his children? If you have heard of fruitful mission work that cross generational lines within the same family, I'd be very interested to hear about it. Sadly I have heard more stories of missionary parents "abandoning" their children for their mission. What is the balance here? To add your comment, click to:
http://brigada.org/brigade/?p=30
Just click on "Add Comment" to brainstorm with "Mike" in the item above.
- TRANSFORMATION COMMUNITY BY COMMUNITY -- Are you interested in establishing a Community-Based Health Care Program which integrates the physical and the spiritual? LifeWind International's (formerly Medical Ambassadors International) Training of Trainers I (TOT I) introduces people to Community Health Evangelism (CHE).The CHE strategy teaches concepts, gives vision and practical "How To's" for implementing and managing CHE in your ministry. Check out upcoming training dates and additional information at
http://www.lifewind.org
or email Kristin(at)lifewind(dot)org
- A JOURNEY THROUGH SLUMS -- This new booklet describes in 24 pages the inspiring life and work of a missionary leader in Chennai, India. Stephen Thankappa has served the people in slums successfully and fruitfully for 20 years. Edited by Dr Ms Masilamoni, and written and published by Mr Sam Arackal and Dr Daniel Sathiaraj. The cost (a donation) for 3 copies is just $10 (postage free). Sathiaraj can be reached at dsathiaraj(at)gmail(dot)org [As a means of preventing spam for our contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with .] (Disclaimer: Dr. Sathiaraj offered in an unsolicited email to send a follow-up gift to Brigada, according to how many booklets were distributed.)
- CHURCH PLANTING MULTIPLICATION CONFERENCE IN JAPAN -- The Church Planting Institute of Japan (CPI) will be sponsoring "CPI Onward the Japan 2007 National Conference to be held November 6-9 in Hakone near Tokyo. The theme of this bilingual (Eng & Jpn) national conference is "Fellow Workers for the Kingdom of God: Advancing church planting movements through Kingdom partnerships." This conference is for pastors, church planters, evangelists, tentmakers working to establish church planting multiplication among the unreached people of Japan and among Japanese worldwide. Also at each conference there are several leaders from other countries wanting to learn about CPI and how it can work in their countries. The emphasis of each of these conferences is gospel renewal and church multiplication. The conference contains complete training on church planting with 16 modules taught by over 12 training teams in Japanese and in English. This is the largest interdenominational (over 120 agencies) church planting conference in Japan. Information and registration for this conference is at
http://www.JCPI.Net
or email with your specific questions to JCPI2007(at)gmail(dot)com [As a means of preventing spam for our contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with .]
- UNREACHED PEOPLE SPOTLIGHT: THE HERERO -- While traveling through Hereroland recently, this anonymous Brigada participant remembered, "We met several people at a store in a small town called Okondjatu. After carrying on a light conversation, we began to share with them about the Lord and His plan for all of our lives. Several of the people left, but others stayed and listened. One woman seemed to be particularly interested in what we were saying. After talking with her for a while, she was asked if she would like to accept Jesus as her Lord and Savior. She said she would like that very much but that she had been drinking that day and felt that she could not make such an important decision while drunk. We continued to talk with her and though she was heartbroken she felt she could not do such a big thing in her condition and we agreed. She wanted the group to come back the next day. How we wished we could have, but we had to leave. We talked to a local believer and asked her to follow up with the lady the next day. Please be in prayer for this lady in Okondjatu. Pray that the local believer followed up with her. Pray that the decision is still important to her in a sober condition. Pray for the Herero people, many of who have succumbed to the influence of alcohol. Pray for workers among these Forgotten People. To adopt the Herero people for prayer or for more information, e-mail forgottenpeoples(at)telkomsa(dot)net [As a means of preventing spam for our contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with .]
- WOULD YOUR CHURCH GIVE A ONE-TIME GIFT TO BRIGADA -- You'll never know 'til you ask. Check out the "Donate" page to see how little we are shooting for during 2007... and how far we have to go. Just click "Donate".
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