1) Online Training for Missions Advocates/Mobilizers
No matter your location or experience, if you’re passionate about inspiring others to embrace the Great Commission, join the School of Missions Advocacy (SOMA)! This 8-week, affordable ($12) course by GlobalCAST Resources equips you with tools to mobilize your community for missions. Starts Feb 6; spots are limited. Learn more: https://globalcastresources.com/training/. read more…
2) Heartstream 2025 Programs
Heartstream Resources is offering Member Care Training March 3-22, 2025 and Debrief Intensive Programs March 3 – 13, April 14-24, and June 16-26 of 2025. For content, materials, and additional 2025 program dates visit them at https://www.heartstreamresources.org. You may also contact them at info@heartstreamresources.org. read more…
3) Evangelistic Tool for Shame-Honor / Fear Power Cultures
This tool presents a metanarrative approach to sharing the Gospel. It is designed for shame-honor and fear-power cultures. Conversion is not a decision, but a faith that the Spirit grants when someone is introduced to the stories that shape a Gospel-centered worldview. The tool is available in French (https://editionscle.com/recherche?controller=search&s=la-reconciliat) . It’s also available in English, Khmer, and Nepali. read more…
4) What Can You or Your Church Do For People On the Move?
If you ever needed a treatise for grappling with people on the move (or, as some people call them, the diaspora), you’ve got it. Frontier Ventures put together a wonderful write-up in their January 25th edition entitled, “People on the Move, God at Work through North America.” (See it for free at https://www.frontierventures.org/mission-frontiers/people-on-the-move-god-at-work-through-north-america. The upshot? There are key locations all around the world that have become focal points for migrants (North America being one of them). Our hope and prayer is that we will be able to help them find Jesus and embrace Him as their Lord and Savior – before it’s too late (and we lose them). This article is a must-read. (Thanks to Mark for tipping us off.) read more…
5) Sudan Now the Biggest Humanitarian Crisis Ever Recorded
According to the International Rescue Committee, Sudan has now become the biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded in all of history (https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20241211-sudan-biggest-humanitarian-crisis-ever-recorded-international-rescue-committee). (Think about it: Bosnia, Cambodia, tsunamis, and more — That’s saying a lot.) (Click “Read More” for ideas on what to do.) read more…
6) Need a Custom App? Consider Developing Your Own in Frontly
Near the end of November, it became obvious that we were going to need to develop a custom app for compiling stories, metrics, and more for the organization of which we’re a part. We scoured the web, looking at over 100 different options and trying out two dozen or so personally. We finally settled on Frontly ( https://frontly.ai/ ). They act as a no-code builder for databases like Supabase ( https://supabase.com/ ). Frontly was (and still is) running a special — $500 for a perpetual license, meaning we wouldn’t have a per-user fee at all. (Click “Read More” for ideas on how to get started.) read more…
7) For Your Third-Culture Kids: What Do They Think of These Six Forms of Belonging?
This article by Michele Phoenix ( https://www.alifeoverseas.com/tcks-six-forms-of-belonging/ ) lists six forms of belonging for third-culture kids. We’d be *very* interested to know your TCK’s take on this. Is there any chance you might be able to a) pull together a Zoom call with a half-dozen TCKs from your organization, b) ask them to read and discuss the article together real-time on the call (keeping it lively), then (click “Read More” to learn more about our dare.) read more…
8) Viva Goals is Working for Our Organization
Like many organizations, ours does annual goalsetting. This year we started a little bit earlier. In July, we began a series of listening sessions in many (we hoped for all but, speaking of goals, we didn’t quite accomplish our goal) of Team Expansion’s 140 working/training locations around the world. (We used a series of short videos to guide our teams through prayer and input sessions. They took notes and uploaded the notes to a special website, giving them voice in the process.) (Click “Read More” to see how it worked.) read more…
9) We’re Grateful for…
…gifts received this past week of $50, $150, $26.25, $51.99, $103.48, $77.74, $100, $100, $25, $103.48, $50, $51.99, $150, and $200. Thank you! Taken together, these gifts add up to $1239.93, the largest giving week so far in this end-of-year campaign! Bless you! We run the campaign through the first *full* week of the new year, meaning there’s just one more week left to make our budget of $17,000 dollars. Fortunately, we’ve already given $11,781.18 toward that goal, meaning that we really no only need 1 church or individual to make a $2000 gift, 1 partner to give $1000, 2 partners each to give $500, and 12 additional True Fans of Brigada to give $100 each. So the question is – can you help us find the $2000 giver? Or can you be one of the True Fans who would pitch in $100? To be a part of the year-end campaign, please make your gift by Friday, Jan. 10th, 9pm ET. Thanks in advance. To join these other partners, just browse to https://brigada.org/empower-brigada and click Donate. God bless you! read more…
10) Last Giving Opportunity for 2024 Campaign
Some people like to wait until the very end to give because they want to make sure others have a change to give first – then, through God’s power, they’ll step up and make up the difference on behalf of those who are less fortunate in the world’s wealth. If you are one of those people — or if you know one — now is that time. Others have stepped up to give $11,781. We really now only need 1 church or individual to make a $2000 gift, 1 partner to give $1000, 2 partners each to give $500, and 12 additional True Fans of Brigada to give $100 each. So the question is – can you help us find the $2000 giver? Or can you be one of the True Fans who would pitch in $100? To be a part of the year-end campaign, please make your gift by Friday, Jan. 10th, 9pm ET. Thanks in advance. To join these other partners, just browse to https://brigada.org/empower-brigada and click Donate. God bless you! read more…
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