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Brigada Today
31 Aug 2007
In this issue...
- GET TRAINING AS A STRATEGY COORDINATOR
- DIRECT A PROGRAM OF CARE FOR THIRD CULTURE KIDS
- GOT FEEDBACK ON THE MANNACARD?
- HEARD ABOUT MICROCREDIT?
- CHECK OUT THIS FREIGHT SWITCHBOARD
- MAKE A STATEMENT WITH YOUR GIFT TO BRIGADA
- CLOSING STUFF
- GET TRAINING AS A STRATEGY COORDINATOR -- The Great Commission
Initiative provides strategy coordinator level training designed to
facilitate global church planting movements by equipping church
planters, pastors, discipleship directors, lay leaders and mission
strategists with the most current missiological thinking and practice.
GCI uses the very best trainers available from various parts of the
world-people who have first-hand experience with Church Planting
Movements and other phenomenal movements of God. Participants are taught
how to learn foundational and biblical principles from these men and
women, and then to contextualize them to their particular people group.
They focus on four specific areas of training: (1) worldview analysis
(2) church planting movements, (3) the discipleship methods that
facilitate them and (4) oral communication strategies. Participants who
complete the entire cycle of training do so having completed a Master
Plan for evangelizing their people group. The training involves three
phases of training accomplished in three separate weeks. Each week of
training is separated from the others by three to four months. In
between training sessions, participants are given assignments relating
to the development of an evangelistic strategy for their people group.
The $450 per week registration fee includes food and lodging, as well as
training costs. For more information, please visit
http://www.txgci.org
- DIRECT A PROGRAM OF CARE FOR THIRD CULTURE KIDS -- Frontiers US
Sending Base needs a Children's and Youth Ministry Coordinator to direct
a program of care for TCK's and their families. The Coordinator will
oversee pre-field and re-entry care for families and coordinate kids
programs at annual events. This position is full-time and will be fully
underwritten by personal ministry partners developed by the candidate.
If you are interested, please contact Pamelaia
pamelaia(dot)sanders(at)gracetogo.org [As a means of preventing spam for
our contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace
(at) with @ and (dot) with .]
- GOT FEEDBACK ON THE MANNACARD? -- Mark recently asked if we had
received any feedback on the MannaCard, mentioned in the March 16th
edition. There, we said, It's a method of moving money and information
to/from the mission field. They claim they can significantly reduce the
expense & wait involved for wires, checks or cash. Try them out at:
http://www.mannacard.com
Got feedback? If so, just start/add a comment at
http://brigada.org/brigade/?p=32
- HEARD ABOUT MICROCREDIT? -- One anonymous Brigada reader encourages
you to give it a try providing "Microcredit" to small businesses in the
developing world so that they can better their economic situation and
thus come out of relative poverty. These may not be Christian
organizations, but they may allow Christians to express love while
making contacts in unreached parts of the world in order to gain an
opportunity to live and share the Gospel in the long (or short) term.
The Brigada participant emphasized that he had not fully reviewed any of
the sites so he encourages all of us to read everything before making
any commitments.
http://www.kiva.org/
http://www.unitus.com
http://www.GlobalPartnerships.org
http://www.accion.org
http://www.GrameenFoundation.org
- CHECK OUT THIS FREIGHT SWITCHBOARD -- According to one anonymous
Brigada participant, you don't have to call multiple carriers or check
multiple Web sites to gather rates and service information.
Freightquote.com has already done it for you! Their online solution
needs only a few pieces of information from you, and then it returns a
complete menu of options. You choose the carrier, service, and price
that best fits your need. Then book, track, and manage all your
shipments in one place-through your secure Freightquote.com account.
According to this user, their system is fast, easy, and free to use.
http://www.freightquote.com
- MAKE A STATEMENT WITH YOUR GIFT TO BRIGADA -- Got a statement,
memorial, remembrance, sponsorship, or other message to share to the
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