http://www.create2020.com

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.

http://www.brigada.org/2017/07/09_20682

Or take a look at the growing list of case studies there. We’ve already benefited from talking to some of them. Thanks for your input!

http://www.actesol.com

http://www.MoreDisciples.com

They’re all free — and they are indeed growing. In fact, if there are so many posts that you find the material overwhelming, the site organizers have pulled out a couple of dozen high-priority training posts at…

http://moredisciples.com/resources/

just so you can get started with some of the best. Many of the pages are being translated into Russian and Spanish for your friends who are more at home in those languages.

https://kingdom.training/

But today we were wondering — what are some examples of seeing this at work? Where might we see case studies in effective outreach through Facebook? Surely there are examples? Know of any?

http://www.missionprep.ca/

What have you heard about this group in Canada? Looks like they do a two-week course in cross-cultural training, another two-week course in language acquisition, and a five-day debriefing experience. Anyone have personal experience there?

http://www.AntiochJourney.com

Designed by several implementers of business as missions, including Ph.D. level researchers and trainers with personal experience doing BAM for a decade or more cross-culturally.

https://www.amazon.com/Vision-Possible-Pioneer-Church-Planting/dp/0830857796

It was written by people who are actually implementing in difficult cross-cultural settings. But what’s your best pick?

https://supportraisingsolutions.org/

for support-raising solutions. Start by getting the book (“The God Ask”) and add additional help as you need it from the site. You can and will succeed. A clear vision from God never goes unfunded. Get started today. Of course, ask your church or agency for additional help and resources, along with a clear budget, and any other fundraising materials they provide.

http://www.sparknotes.com/

It’s like the old “Cliff’s Notes” that we used to see in high school and college — except modern and digital. Of course, Cliff’s Notes still maintains a site too… and they even say they are the “most widely imitated.” [smile] You’ll have to decide for yourself which site to use for your own purposes. : )

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/

http://www.missionaryhealth.net/brigada/

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http://www.create2020.com

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http://connectefl.com
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We’re not sure what it’s like for you in the churches in your country, but in the USA, it seems there are opinions across the board on the importance of the church. The Barna Group opened a can of worms in the USA when they surveyed some 4500 adults between May and August of 2013. They say their research could vary in its accuracy, plus or minus 3 points. Either way, it was sobering.

https://www.barna.com/research/americans-divided-on-the-importance-of-church/#.V-hxhLVy6FD

It was a “good news, bad news” kind of survey. On the one hand, around 4 out of 10 said they had been in church during the past week. So that’s good. That’s basically the same answer we’ve heard for decades. Maybe the media have been giving us “fake news” about throngs of people walking out of churches for good. Imagine: Out of the next 10 people you meet anywhere in the USA, there’s a fairly accurate chance that 4 out of the 10 are weekly church-goers! Yay!

However, before you get too excited, there was a fairly telling downward trend going on in the last 4 or 5 years of that survey. And what’s more [warning: bad news], 59% of the Millennials who grew up in church have dropped out at some point along the way. And the number reporting that they haven’t attended church at any point in the past 6 months has doubled — from 25% to 50% — just in the 4 years preceding this survey. 35% say they don’t attend church because the church isn’t relevant.

For the purposes of their survey, they considered participants as Millennials if they were born between 1984 and 2002, “Busters (or Gen-Xers),” if they were born between 1965 and 1983, Boomers if they were born between 1946 and 1964, and Elders if they were born 1945 or earlier.

Learn more about their findings in the little, book, “Sacred Roots: Why the Church Still Matters, available in eBook and paperback for five bucks at…

https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Roots-Frames-eBook-Matters-ebook/dp/B00FJ46X9Y

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