- GOING ON A MISSION TRIP? NEED INSURANCE? WANT TO HELP BRIGADA? - There are a lot of companies that offer international health, evacuation and travel insurance, but when you purchase insurance from Insurance Services of America on Brigada's website your purchase will help to support Brigada's work with the missionary community! Coverage is available for any international need - short-term trips, career missionaries, trip cancellation, short-term teams and term life insurance.
For coverage details, rates and the online applications of the Brigada sponsored plans, go to
http://www.missionaryhealth.net/brigada.htm
Insurance Services of America has agreed to help support Brigada from sales that are made on this link, so when you purchase on this site you will be helping to support Brigada and you will be protecting yourself and your ministry from financial loss! (And they do indeed send a small gift for *every* single trip that is registered with them. It's amazing.)
- NEW TOOL FOR RAISING SUPPORT -- Here is one more tool to assure that you can raise your full support in a reasonable time. Since June, 2007 when Kingdom Come Training began offering live, interactive video courses on raising support, missionaries have struggled with the problem of taking three weeks out of their travel schedule. Now that problem is solved by adding the option of a one-week intensive course. The one- week course still offers the full eighteen hours of fear-eliminating presentation skills and requires the full 18 hours of confidence- building offline personal practice. It is designed for those who can dedicate a full week to the training with no outside activities. Anyone with high-speed internet can do it. KCT offers ongoing practical help through the Support Assist Team until you are at 100%. Give Jerry a call at (503) 314-7211 or email him at: jerry(at)
kingdomcometraining(dot)com [As a means of preventing spam for our contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with . then reassemble the address onto one line.] Find them on the web at:
http://www.kingdomcometraining.com
- KID'S MISSION VIDEOS NOW ON YOUTUBE -- Prayer and Fasting for Kids, The 10/40 Window for Kids, and Prayerwalking for Kids, are now available on YouTube! These 6-minute snappy kid videos narrated by kids have been used for years by mission agencies, Sunday Schools, and conferences. You can find Prayer and Fasting for Kids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSbYXcN5VBQ
Prayerwalking for Kids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQOLGTKL_ag
and The 10/40 Window for Kids
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0A75w748_Ro
You can contact Joey and Fawn Parish at fawn(at) Reignbridge(dot)com for more info. [As a means of preventing spam for our contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with . then reassemble the address onto one line.]
- TEACHERS & STAFF NEEDED AT INT'L CHRISTIAN SCHOOL IN INDIA -- Metro Delhi International School has an urgent need for a experienced teachers and other staff for the 2008-9 school year. Positions available are listed on the web site and applications are being accepted. The school currently serves 60 international children, Kindergarten to grade 11, with potential to grow. MDIS primarily serves International students working with organizations in the Delhi area, as well as business and diplomatic families. Basic salary and housing are provided. For more information, see
http://www.mdis.net
or contact info(at) mdis(dot)net. [As a means of preventing spam for our contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with . then reassemble the address onto one line.]
- STUDY/LIVE IN THE WEST BANK -- Looking for a great cultural experience and the opportunity to impact a community? The Step Foundation NGO
http://www.stepinternational.org
is hosting English courses in Ramallah, West Bank. The NGO is currently seeking volunteer teachers for its program. Teachers have a unique opportunity to break the social barriers that exist as well as provide a needed service to locals. The dates for the year 2008 are: from the middle of February to Easter and from Easter until Ramadan (end of August). There will be six-week classes, with the weekly schedule being every Tuesday and Wednesday from 2.30 until 8.15 pm. For more information, please contact Harry at: 0544-370-446 or harry(at) stepinternational(dot)org [As a means of preventing spam for our contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with . then reassemble the address onto one line.]
- "MENTORNET" FREE CPM COACHES' MONTHLY E-LETTER -- Church Planting guru, George Patterson, and his co-workers answer pressing questions for those who mentor and coach shepherds of reproducing, new churches. See past issues at
http://www.MentorNet.ws
Subscribe at the site or send a blank e-mail message to mentornet_articles(at) getresponse.com [As a means of preventing spam for our contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with . then reassemble the address onto one line.] You will be sent a return e-mail asking you to verify your subscription as required by the CAN-SPAM law. Questions? Write to Mentors(at)
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- OMF BAY AREA MISSION CONFERENCE (APRIL 25-26, 2008) -- The theme is "Glorifying God in Beijing and Beyond!" Plenary Speakers include Dr. Patrick Fung - OMF General Director ( Singapore ) and Tony Lambert - OMF Director of China Research ( UK ) plus eight workshops focused on China. For conference inquires, contact Dick (866) 500-1248 or email dandrews(at)
omf(dot)org [As a means of preventing spam for our contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with . then reassemble the address back onto one line.] or browse to
http://www.us.omf.org/northwest
They have a great Children's Program and the location is Peninsula Covenant Church in Redwood City, CA. Group, student and senior rates are available.
- AMAZING ENCOURAGEMENT -- Thanks to Kingdom Come Training
http://www.kingdomcometraining.com
for the $60 gift they sent recently. What an encouragement. Thanks, too, goes to The Ableson Law Firm in Washington D.C.
http://www.attorneysforpeople.com
If you need an attorney in the DC area, we hope you'll check them out. We also received $20 from GLOBAL Opportunities. They were pre-paying a tithe of the registration money they hoped to gather from registrations to their Florida Tentmaking Course, Feb 20-24. (I know for a fact that our Outreach Director and his wife went to it from here at Team Expansion. I hope they picked up at least two others! :-) )
Finally, an anonymous reader from the Missions Resource Network, in the great state of Texas, sent $100. Bowled us over. Thank you so much!!! See their upcoming conferences and learn about their teams in preparation.
- WOULD YOU BE THE MINUTE MAN? -- During the early days of the American colonies, there were these "Minute men"... People that could be called at a moment's notice, ready to defend their new colony. Well -- now's your chance to become one of those... because we're calling for your involvement. Just click on the "Sponsor/Donate" page. You can pull the money from your PayPal account or from any major credit card. Or if you prefer, send a check payable to Team Expansion to: Team Expansion (Brigada secretary), 11327 Jefferson Trace Blvd., Louisville, KY 40291. (Team Expansion is a 501(c)3 incorporation so for USA citizens, your checks made out to Team Expansion are tax-deductible.) As always, be sure to let us know if you'd like us to promote any particular service or ministry, or if you'd prefer your gift be anonymous. And thank you in advance for helping.
- THE BACKPAGE: 48 HOURS TO FIND AN INSPIRING VIDEO -- OK... I've got 48 hours to find the very best video in the world to mobilize a church of 1500 to raise the bar for missions in their congregation. The video should be short -- maybe 3 minutes is perfect. It should be snappy and fast-paced. It should not be a "branded" appeal. (In other words, it shouldn't be seeking to raise money or recruits for any one specific agency, project, or people.) Instead, it should prompt a church to want to do more for missions. It should inspire them to believe that the task is *doable*. It should help them get a glimpse, though, of just how much yet there is to do. When viewers finish watching the feature, they should *gulp* because of the tremendous "task remaining", they should be sobered by the depth of the challenge, but they should be excited to get involved in what their church is doing to change the world... starting with one people group or city.
All that in 3 minutes. Can it be done? Do you know of such a video? We need it by noon Friday... so that means ordering it Thursday if we have to express mail it into Louisville... or better yet, downloading it on Thursday, end of the day. Is it doable? Does one exist? Don't be humble if you're the producer... we need this baby ASAP. Thanks for any help you can give!!!
If you know of any such resource ... or anything *close* to it... please leave a message by clicking to:
http://brigada.org/brigade/?p=61
Thank you so much. I'm desperate. :-) Either way, the site should become a virtual cornucopia of great mobilization videos. Check it out!
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