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Compiled/Edited by Doug Lucas and Tina McCormick, Team Expansion
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Jump to…1) Ken Anderson Films Streamed Online in 37 Languages
Jump to…2) Learn to Communicate Timeless Truth Through Story
Jump to…3) How to Learn Something About 25 Of The World’s Largest Cities
Jump to…4) Support Raising Leaders Conference: Full Sail
Jump to…5) Last tentmaking course in 2017
Jump to…6) Curious About Progress With Global Bible Translation?
Jump to…7) Tentmaking Briefs is now Tentmaking Today
Jump to…8) Curious About the Origin of the Term, “Member Care?”
Jump to…9) The Whole North Korea Thing… What’s Up With That?
Jump to…10) Follow-up on Secure (on Not) Email
Jump to…11) What are YOUR Simple Instructions for Changing the World?
Jump to…12) Remembering Those Struck by Disaster
Jump to…13) We’re Grateful for…
Jump to…14) The Last Bit: Let’s Make a Reading List for Marketplace Ministries
Jump to…15) Closing Stuff
 Ken Anderson Films or Intercomm was a ministry interested in using Christian films or movies to help share the gospel in 37 languages. The leader of the ministry just put all their films on youtube.com. Please consider using this website to share the gospel with people you know in these 37 languages.
http://kenandersonfilms.com
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Understand the importance – and urgency – of story for ministry effectiveness. Learn how story applies to reaching and teaching people for Christ. Mission Media U is offering its five-week online mentored experience for you and your team. Visit
http://www.missionmediau.org/courses/story-in-ministry/
to find course details, instructor and mentor bios and comments from previous students. The course runs Sept.20-Oct.18.
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 Suppose a local church came to you asking for help in making an impact on 25 of the world’s largest cities in 2018. Maybe the first thing you’d want to do is sharpen your geography skills so you can quickly point to each of those 25 cities on a map, right? Never fear. Seterra is here. 3 or 4 attempts at this online map-quiz game will help you get started in your quest.
http://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3127
Once you figured out where all the top 25 cities were located, your next challenge would be to learn about them. Where would you go? Wikipedia? Smithsonian Magazine?
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/news/population/world-urbanization-prospects-2014.html
In other words, where are the best sources for learning about mega-cities? If you’ve got a thought, please click “Comment” following the web version of this article. And by the way, this is a real scenario. So we’re for real interested. Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
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Are you at the helm of your organization? Do you need fresh ideas in coaching others to live on support? Creating a spiritually healthy environment in this area is what the Support Raising Leaders Conference is all about. Sign up today visiting
https://supportraisingsolutions.org/
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Consider attending an intensive and practical 4 day tentmaking course in Mosbach Germany, Oct. 28-31. Learn how to share Jesus through your work, business or studies in closed countries. The course content is developed by former tentmakers, plus all trainers are former tentmakers who will also share their stories of failures & victories.
More info at:
http://tentinternational.org/events/tmcourse/2017Germany
Are they the standard against which all other services are judged? What’s YOUR opinion?
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SIL and the Bible translation community have a great map for you at…
https://www.sil.org/worldwide
(Thanks Greg!)
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Tentmaking Briefs was launched in 2009 and quickly became the most widely read publication on tentmaking with readership in 195 countries. It is being re-branded and re-launched as Tentmaking Today on September 13th, as an independent publication of the worldwide tentmaking movement. By subscribing you will be reminded as each issue is published. It’s FREE.
http://tentmaking.today/
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There’s been a great discussion since we asked the question in Brigada a few weeks ago. Posts include memories from the likes of Neal Pirolo. Some cited trainers such as Sam Rowen and Ken Harder. Read the entire thread at…
http://www.brigada.org/2017/07/30_20826
One friend (Randy) wrote with some private memories. “I’ve skimmed through my ’91 copy of Neal Pirolo’s book and did not quickly see the term member care. I also searched the digital copy he had posted in Blue Letter Bible and it did not appear there. However Kelly’s 1992 Helping Missionaries grow uses member care extensively. I suspect that Kelly who was then an up coming networker in missionary care was pushing the term member care because of his contacts in limited access countries where terms like missionary care and pastoral care could not be used. Kelly also had a broader view than his own discipline of psychology and mental health which is reflected in that ’92 book. I’ll probably ask him about it, if I remember, the next time I see him.”
He continued, “In Clyde Narrimore’s radio broadcast which I mentioned he would mention how he served missionaries on furlough. It seems the precurser to what we now call debriefing. I was only a child then, but his perspective on missionaries needing care was so different than the monthly missionaries we heard in church were missionaries were still veiwed as sort of spiritual superheros.”
He finished off with a reflection, “It is interesting to now see the explosion of missionary care that is now taking place over a half a century later.” Indeed. Thanks Randy. Do you have other memories about the exact origin of the term?
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Can someone succinctly sum up what motive is driving the leadership of North Korea to take a nuclear approach? What in the world? This author gives it a shot…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-ban-north-korea-travel-comes-force-055853080.html
But in reality, can someone help us better understand North Korean regime’s thinking on this?
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A few weeks ago, we asked which is the most secure email. See the original item here…
http://www.brigada.org/2017/08/27_21025
One reader felt that Hushmail was no longer any more secure than the rest of the pack. Is that your understanding? If so, what are our options these days? One reader, Ed, mentioned he was using an encryption tool with Gmail. But I would think that slows down the very reading/composing/sending process that has helped make Gmail so popular. Another reader felt we had been a bit biased when we used the phrase “made a deal with the devil.” If you felt the same, please forgive. We just wish/hope that some company can create truly secure communication. Do you know of one?
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If we were to ask Admiral William McRaven, he might say, “Make your bed.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6OoCaGsz94
See his book along those same lines (“Make Your Bed”)…
https://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Bed-Little-Things/dp/1455570249
But what’s YOUR short list for successfully changing the world? (Thanks Chris!)
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As this Brigada heads out the door, it goes without saying that we ought to pause to pray for those suffering from the effects of hurricanes, flooding, and more. Apparently 90% of the housing on the island of Barbuda has been leveled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=z7vr8KuS1MY
We’ve heard that one-third of Bangladesh is under water? Houston has $180 billion dollars in damages. Many are trying to escape Irma. Some in other parts of the world have nowhere to go and no way to get there. The list goes on. Please join us in lifting up those impacted by these horrific disasters.
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…a gift of $184.71 from ISA, the insurance specialists. Learn more about their offerings at…
http://www.missionaryhealth.net/brigada/
… a gift of $100 from Mission Network. Thank you so much for your help. They give $100/month to speed Brigada on its way to mobilization specialists and missionaries all over the world and we’re so grateful. God bless oyu Mission Network!
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http://kenandersonfilms.com
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Some refer to it as “business as missions” or “BAM” while others use the term ‘marketplace ministries.’ Some still just say, “tentmaking,” in a throwback to the apostle Paul. Regardless, the idea is the same: How can I integrate my work and my witness as one, regardless of where I serve in the world. Can I be INTENTIONAL about merging the two? Can I actually PLAN my career in such a way that it provides the best avenue for multiplying disciples and churches in answer to the Great Commission? Those are tough questions. They deserve serious answers. Let’s pull together some of the best resources here. If you know of others, please mention them in comments following the web version of this item. Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
First, there are several resources listed on the Antioch Journey website. See
http://www.antiochjourney.com/resources
There you’ll find resources like these (we’ve pulled some additional ideas from a friend named Allan and added a few ourselves):
First, to keep in mind the eventual goal (making disciples):
*** Contagious Disciple Making by David L. Watson and Paul D. Watson
*** Miraculous Movements by Jerry Trousdale
*** Scatter: Go Therefore and Take Your Job With You by Andrew Scott
*** The 3D Gospel: Ministry in Guilt, Shame, and Fear Cultures by Jayson Georges
*** http://www.MoreDisciples.com
*** http://www.ZumeProject.com
Then, books which specialize in marketpace ministry:
*** The Missional Entrepreneur by Mark Russel
*** Business for Transformation by Patrick Lai
*** Great Commission Companies: The Emerging Role of Business in Missions by Steve Rundle and Tom Steffen
*** Business as Mission: A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice by C. Neal Johnson
*** Business as Mission: The Power of Business in the Kingdom of God by Michael R. Baer
Can you think of others? If so, please click comment following the web version of this item. Thanks for any help you can give!
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