20010107 Brigada Today

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LAST CHANCE FOR SHORT-TERM MISSION CONFERENCE

Here’s your last chance to register for the National Short Term Mission Conference in Atlanta, Jan. 26-28. Attend with your church mission leadership and choose from 45 Workshops taught by experienced leaders on the things your church needs to know for doing short term missions. Workshops include: how to recruit, how to interview, how to teach missions, how to do great team meetings before, on-site and after a trip, cultural dilemmas, conflict management, emergency issues, mobilizing families, the host’s perspective, large church issues, and more. The plenary theme is Storytelling. Guest musician, Ken Medema will be putting music to stories….His story and your mission stories. Register through the website http://www.NSTMC.org or email Dennis.K.Massaro@juno.com.

TRADE NOT AID

Check out this new ministry formed to promote self- sustainability for poorer nations. “10-40 Trading” info@winint.org (subject line: attn: Keith) is a trading venture hoping to pair up partners in the West with needy, industrious folks in other lands. Its leaders want to create conduits for import and export of goods to create healthy, long-term jobs, income and capitol for projects. If you can locate bankrupt merchandise, end of line product and other goods to pass to developing nations or if you can purchase goods made in other lands, then 10-40 Trading might be your ticket! For more info., go to http://www.winint.org.

TESL IN ASIA

Want to teach English in East Asia this summer? Call Mike in the USA or via Net2Phone at 800-670-7742 ext. 137. Or email him Mmccalley@Globalresources.org.

ELIJAH COMPANY’S MISSIONARY TRAINING CAMP

ECI’s ministry is to identify, instruct, impart to, and impel missionaries to the field. To learn more, go to http://www.elijahcompany.org. One of the ways that the Elijah Company trains missionaries is through its Missionary Training Camp (MTC). Here they help identify and destroy personal strongholds, train in cross-cultural communications, and assist in the identification of missionary calls. The next MTC will be held 1-4 February 2001 in Chesapeake, VA at the beautiful RRR Ranch. Please email info@elijahcompany.org or phone in the USA at 757-474-2054 for more information. The application deadline is January 25.

MISSIONARY TRAINING AT CORNERSTONE

The Cornerstone Centre for Intercultural Studies offers many one-week courses for anyone to attend. It’s good, not expensive, and lasts you a life time. To see all the different courses they’re offering, go to http://www.cornerstone-mtc.com or email 101507.2223@compuserve.com.

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