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Are you a home-schooling parent? Are you interested in discipling the next generation? Too much information to track? If so, you're in luck! You'll find solutions to these and lots more questions in this week's Brigada.
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Brigada is a crowd-sourcing app for learning and passing along missions/outreach ideas and starting points, mobilization, information, trends and more. Thank you for being part of the family!
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If this kind of content means something to you, would you please tell somebody else about Brigada this week? You can use the "Forward" button at the top of this newsletter. Thank you! The best way to grow Brigada is through word of [your] voice.
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Got an item for Brigada? Just click "Submit an item" at brigada.org. If you find something helpful in this edition of Brigada, please share it with a friend.
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For the missionary families that homeschool, we recently heard about an online literature class which is posted at TimeTravelersLiterature.com. The personal testimony regarding her class states that instead of creating graphs, definitions, and systems for students to memorize, she leads the kids right into the story. Students learn the lessons as they read. In her own words, “I think the best way to understand a book is to read a bunch of books. I read all the time. Since my students are modern readers, they often miss things the original audience would have understood. I bring those things out, while explaining the background.” Check out her website. What is your favorite website, curriculum or online class for your homeschool student? Please comment.
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I (Tina) recently completed the Bible study on the attributes of God (found here: https://thedailygraceco.com/products/the-attributes-of-god-study-matte). It was a very thought-provoking study detailing His communicable (qualities that both God and we possess, such as love, knowledge, and mercy) vs His incommunicable (qualities possessed by God alone, such as omnipotence, omniscience, and transcendence). What has been your favorite study lately? Please comment!
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Missio Nexus recently posted an article titled, When Translation Is the Difference Between Life and Death. Basically, this team expanded their community health work in rural northern India from several dozen villages to several hundred as part of a UNICEF project, but initially faced challenges in engaging the young women on their team. Through Bible study, they discovered translation discrepancies that portrayed women as "feeble-minded," which had hindered their participation. Once these women understood their God-given value, their confidence grew, leading to significant community improvements and a transformative impact on the villages. Check it out at https://missionexus.org/when-translation-is-the-difference-between-life-and-death/.
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It’s easy. Just click to https://brigada.org/submit-an-item. Be sure to read the submission guidelines first. It’s ok to pitch in a gift toward Brigada’s budget if you like (and it’s true that pitching in helps bump up your item in the calendar and the order of appearance), but you really don’t have to do so. The money helps meet the budget, but the goal is the Great Commission.
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The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics is putting together 6-week online sessions on How to Disciple the Next Generation beginning September 17, 2024. If you are a parent of a teenager or in student ministry, this online learning cohort will offer a broad and practical overview of how churches and families might serve young people through the various stages of their young adult life — in the home, college, and career — and allow for participants to learn and interact with leading scholars and practitioners in the church. The cost is $299. For more information, go to https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/cohort/disciple-next-generation-2024/.
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Learn a skill that helps others gain clarity, experience breakthroughs, develop solutions and better decision making, see a different perspective, discover confidence and purpose, and process experiences and challenges! It’s coaching! Apply now for CMI’s upcoming Foundations for Coaching Excellence course. Learn more at https://coachingmission.com/fce-course/. The Deadline to registeris July 15th.
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After a life-changing trip, your visiting teams are going home with new perspectives, fresh vision, and possibly a new heart for ministry. But they have questions. “What now?” “What does being ‘on mission’ look like at home?” This Re-Entry Journal is for them. https://shop.touchtheworld.org/products/re-entry-journal
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For me (Doug), one of the most enduring and best use cases for laptops, phones, and tablets in the modern era just might be the assembling of a grass-catcher-style knowledgebase. Using one of today's well-developed note-taking apps, it's possible to create a virtual "mind map" of all the random bits of information we could never remember in the old days. We finally have a place to record our notes about that favorite scripture verse. We can make a new note for each sermon or missions presentation. We can jot down plans for that book we need to write. And each random "bit" is a new note - and it's all infinitely searchable -- instantly. On top of that, we can now share our notes with others - either one person at a time or "at large" on the web. One of the long-time apps for this purpose was Evernote. Honestly, it had kind of gotten "ragged on the edges" for a while. But as I mentioned last month, once developer "Bending Spoons" purchased it last year, they started breathing new life into it. You can use Ever note on your phone, tablet, laptop or the web - and have access to all those notes, anywhere, any time, whether solo or with members of your team, or your entire church. Worth checking out at https://evernote.com/. You can start for free! (If it's been a while since you used Evernote, it's worth revisiting the new Bending Spoons version.) Do you prefer a different direction on note-taking? ...or a different app? Please share and tell why in the comments below. We admit: It's an incredibly personal decision. Tell why you've decided to approach it your way.
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