20010429 Brigada Today

In this issue….

NEW EMAIL JOURNALS… TCKS, TENTMAKERS, RESEARCHING

Have you seen the new ejournal for missionaries exploring avenues of receptivity and seeking to understand how to reach unreached people groups? (Thanks Tony!) It also contains issues relating to subcultures of mission organizations. To subscribe, send an email to ross.woods@mounties.org.au with “subscribe RTU” on subject line. SERVING INTERCULURALLY is very similar but does not use “Christian” language. It is for tentmakers in countries that are closed to regular missiological bulletins for security reasons, but will also appeal to subscribers of RTU. Its discussion is appropriate for secular workers who face the same issues in offering human services in intercultural contexts. Subscribe to same address with “subscribe SI” on the subject line. The TCK BULLETIN discusses the educational, emotional, and social needs of third Culture Kids–kids who are brought up in cultures that are different from the home cultures of their parents. (This includes most missionary kids). Same subscribe address, with “subscribe TCK” as subject. This information is also carried at: http://www.paciu.edu/woods/ejournals.htm

ACCENTED CHARACTERS

If you need to type accented letters which do not appear on your keyboard, Accent Composer is a useful shareware timesaver. It does not create font characters, but finds those in any character set you have. There are also links to many unusual accented fonts which will help anyone working with non-standard orthography: http://www.rsf.fr/uk/homennemis.html

ENGLISH AND EVANGELISM

Evangelistic literature ministry SOON Gospel Literature have codified their editing policy: https://brigada.org/today/articles/soon-editing.html

The Good News Course is online English-learning material, designed to be evangelistic and based on Christian material: http://www.gnews-english.org

Literacy And Evangelism produce the excellent (printed) Passport To The World Of English course: http://www.LiteracyEvangelism.org

FONETIKS: sound pronunciation for English learners: http://www.fonetiks.org

EASY-ENGLISH BIBLE COMMENTARIES

Wycliffe Associates UK are increasing their range of easy-English commentaries on different books of the Bible. These are free to download, use, modify, translate, as needed.

EASY-ENGLISH PROGRAMMING

This from FEBA Radio… it can be downloaded from their site, and is also available to other broadcasters: http://www.specialized.english.net/

GRAY’S THE COLOR OF LIFE

The Gray Matrix is an insightful modification of the Engel Scale. This page also carries links to a range of pages on the Engel Scale including the online version of the original book ‘What’s gone wrong with the harvest?’ https://brigada.org/today/articles/gray-matrix.html

FREE BIBLE SCHOOL

The International School of The Bible has a web site that offers books and over 100 lessons for free downloading in Acrobat Reader (pdf). ISOB is a Bible school curriculum being used for discipleship and church planting in several African countries and Haiti (Mostly in English, but a few lessons in French and Swahili). All the details are available on their web site for free Bible study and Bible school materials. Materials also available on CD for computer reproduction if web access is a problem. They’re on the web at: http://www.isob-bible.org Contact info@isob-bible.org for information.

NATIVE LANGUAGE TOOLS

Logos wants missionaries around the world to have native language tools. They also want the countries that are not so commercially viable to be able to get Bible software for their native languages. They are trying to release their next version of Bible Software in as many foreign languages as possible. They have an online collaborative effort set up where people who are fluent in multiple languages can help be a part of the process. http://www.logos.com/titus/language/ So far we have 33 languages in the works! Since most of these languages don’t have any commercial market at all, we need all the help we can get in order to release our Bible Software in as many languages as possible for no extra charge.

You can see the status of our translation work live on the web at: http://www.logos.com/titus/language/status.asp

People who know the languages can contribute translation help at: http://www.logos.com/titus/language/

FREE TRAINING MATERIAL

Need training material for your mission or church? GodSpeak International has a wide collection of free training material on topics like Prayer & Intercession, Hearing God, the Prophetic, Missions and many other topics. The material is copyrighted but GodSpeak gives permission to reprint very freely upon request, providing you

are not making a profit from use of the free material,
have your Pastor’s or Ministry Leader’s permission to use the material and
you provide a little basic information.

The site has 34 teaching series and is constantly adding new ones. For free online training resources, visit http://www.godspeak.org/goto_classes.html

REPORT: MOTIVATING COMFORT-MINDED ADULTS TO MISSIONS

How do you motivate comfort-minded adults toward missions? Try these (from a recent Brigada compiler!)

USCWM,1605 E. Elizabeth St., Pasadena CA 91104. Books, videos.
Caleb Project’s top 10 Bible studies http://www.calebproject.org/bomm/biblstdy.html.
Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, USCWM.
Let the Nations Be Glad by John Piper.
Discovering Our Place in God’s Plan, Next Step Resources.
Path to God’s Glory by Joe Markulike.
Six Dangerous Questions by Paul Borthwick.
Experiencing God, by Henry Blackaby.
Involve your people through videos, speakers, short-term trips, child sponsorship, visit a missionary/promo their work.
Practicing biblical hospitality to the “stranger in our midst.” http://www.sojourners.cc/cellgroup.html.

(Thanks Joseph!)

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