1) Sponsor Brigada as a Gift Between Family Members?
If you’d like to give a gift of “sponsorship” of Brigada, we could email you a digital certificate suitable for printing, framing, and blessing a loved one or friend. Thanks to glad-hearted and generous partners, we’re within striking distance. Just $8400 remains unsponsored. What if 84 churches, or 84 Sunday School classes, or 84 friends gave $100-gifts to loved ones, co-workers, and friends? The entire budget would be claimed. This past Monday (Cyber Monday) broke all kinds of records. By the end of the day, consumers had spent $13.3 billion — marking the biggest online shopping day of all time. It surpassed the record that was reached just a few days prior, on Black Friday, when shoppers spent a record $10.8 billion online, according to Adobe Analytics. Here’s your chance to help Brigada’s budget be fulfilled as well. If you’d like to help, just browse to https://brigada.org/empower-brigada and click Donate. God bless you! read more…
2) Looking For An Online Christmas Devotional?
Would you like an online Christmas devotional to start your season or share with your ministry partners? Check out https://tree.gnpi.org/@tgg-plans to check out The Global Gospel Plans available in 27 languages. read more…
3) Church Traditions and Disciple Making
As we embark on the Christmas season, we all find ourselves living out family traditions. The traditions that create lasting memories. We recently read the blog post titled “How Do Church Traditions Fit with Disciple Making?” by Craig Etheredge (found here: https://discipleship.org/blog/how-do-church-traditions-fit-with-disciple-making/). Etheredge shares personal anecdotes about family traditions and how they reinforce values and pass down truths from one generation to the next. He draws parallels to church traditions, noting that while they can be beneficial, they must not hinder the primary mission of making disciples. The blog highlights the importance of balancing traditions with the need for change and adaptation to effectively reach and engage new generations. How do you embrace church traditions and effectively multiply disciples? Please comment!
4) PRAY FOR MUSLIMS CALL TO PRAYER
On Sunday, December 8 at 3 pm ET, join us as we pray for Muslims and hear about a family who reached Pakistani Muslims in South Asia. The Lord recently called them back to the US to work in their home church, Sagemont, in Houston, Texas. Ben will share about their journey and what the Lord is doing in the Muslim world. To receive the ZOOM LINK -Send an email to info@calltoprayer.global. read more…
5) Sites That Point to Jesus
What are the best sites to which we could direct someone who doesn’t know the Lord , if they were so interested to visit one? In other words, if a nonbeliever wants to know about Jesus, where should he or she go? This past week one reader suggested this one: http://www.goodnewsonline.faith/. What are your favorite sites? read more…
6) Discover App Reaches Thirty Two Languages
Did you know that the latest version of the Discover App has Discovery Bible Studies in five languages – Hausa, Lingala, Oromo, Bengali and Tamil – bringing the total to thirty-two. Get the App on your phone at http://discoverapp.org/get.
Please email info@discoverapp.org if you are able to help with additional languages (see https://discoverapp.org/language-needs).
7) Gift the Gift of an Infinite Pure Water Supply (Traveling or Otherwise)
Still searching for the perfect gift for that special someone? Maybe that special someone has been traveling for years and seemingly has just about everything he/she needs? If your still looking for the ideal gift – try this: Larq. https://www.livelarq.com/shop/bottles Larq water bottles are so easy. Never pump again. Never strain. Grab water from virtually anywhere. I’ve dragged mine (Doug) through Malaysia and pulled water from sources that were super-sketchy… but this ultra-violet filtration deal is incredibly easy, polite, and discrete. I’m headed to North Africa as I write this post. I’d trust my Larq with my life. (I *do* in fact.) read more…
8) Add the Coaching Skill Set to Increase Effectiveness
You can learn a skill that helps others gain clarity, see breakthroughs, develop solutions, make better decisions, gain a different perspective, & process experiences – through coaching! There is an upcoming Foundations for Coaching Excellence course in Asia. For more information go to https://coachingmission.com/fce-course/. Deadline to register is January 21, 2025.
9) We’re Grateful for…
…a $50 gift from Mission Network. Yay! Thank you! Plus – a $150 gift from a loving couple in Texas who deeply care about the unreached. Thank you! Others sent gifts to Jesus through Brigada for the sake of the unreached in the amount of $100, $148.79, $26.25, $41.69, $25, and $515.38. God bless you!!!!!!!!!!!!! Want to stand with these partners in expanding the reach of Brigada? If so, just browse to https://brigada.org/empower-brigada and click Donate. God bless you! read more…
10) New Book: “Relentless”
Here’s a brand new book that just dropped into Amazon this week: Relentless: We Press On. https://www.amazon.com/Relentless-We-Press-Doug-Lucas/dp/B0DP2VHC6Z/ref=sr_1_1 It was assembled by an entire team of cross-cultural workers (missionaries with Team Expansion), writing about the challenges they face (and the spirit to overcome) while making and multiplying disciples cross-culturally. In the pages of this book, the Editors and Contributors share not only the narrative, but also the backstory too – the “why” and the “how” they press on. Relentless: We Press On captures the essence of unwavering faith and determination. The compelling stories illustrate God’s relentless love and its transformative impact. Co-Editors Doug Lucas and Tina McCormick hope it will serve as a beacon of hope and inspiration for navigating life’s complexities – for you and all those you know. Just in time for Christmas. You could order a bundle and share them with supporters and partners? (Note that none of the money goes to the Editors. It goes instead toward staging future trainings so that others can tell the Good News far and wide.) read more…
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