Team Expansion – Brigada Today 2017/10/15

This website has information on Chinese Christian books, booklets, Bibles, Evangelism Training, Audio, DVDs, tracts, children’s materials and more. Please visit

http://www.chinesechristianresources.org

If you forget the website address in the future, you may find it at

http://www.missionsjumpstart.org

Now you can get trained to teach English to arriving refugees or to obtain genuine work abroad. Then you can start anytime with Online Course! ConnecTEFL is an affordable 120 hour teaching English as a foreign language certification program. The course can be taken online anywhere in the world! The certificate meets the globally accepted TESOL International short-term certificate standards.
For more information, see

http://connectefl.com

If you’ve been following the story of disciple-making movements, you’ve likely heard recently about the Global Alliance for Church Multiplication…

https://gacx.io

Check out their blog and library then set aside the dates for their 2018 GACX Forum (Oct. 9-12). They’re on a roll.

Julianne Hale is a consultant working in the Intelligence Community. For more than ten years, she has served as a policy and counterterrorism expert focusing on the Near East region. Julianne wrote hundreds of reports for the US government analyzing world events, terrorist operations, and radical Islamic ideology, resulting in national intelligence and impact awards from several agencies. She is partnering with international ministries to bring humanitarian aid and also books like…

http://www.christianfaithpublishing.com/books/?book=covert-awakening

Are you Curious about charitable giving? Giving USA has prepared an infographic with answers to several intense questions.

https://givingusa.org/see-the-numbers-giving-usa-2017-infographic/

You’ll be surprised by some of the trends.

Have you ever wondered what political scientists think about political repression? Here’s a great article on the subject (thanks Caleb!).

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.840.4379&rep=rep1&type=pdf

It has become even more relevant in light of the difficulty resolving the rising tensions between the USA an North Korea.

Kelly ODonnell has assembled a fair amount of research detailing the impact of humanitarian stress on emotional health. See the literature review and summary at…

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.840.4379&rep=rep1&type=pdf

(Thanks Kelly!)

The SYIS Workshop is now available as a series of four online courses.
SYIS Online courses are ideal for any Christ follower who wants to become more loving and effective in creating and/or maintaining good relationships with others.
Learn more at…

http://www.itpartners.org

Collectives are focused learning intensives that apply the best practices to make more & better disciples in the healthiest environments possible. The Church Multiplication Collective is designed to support you in assessing your current approach, identify areas to improve and take action. You will learn from practitioners and receive individualized coaching to contextualize principles to your situation. Registration closes on November 10, 2017. Click

http://www.infocusnet.org/collective/collective-church-multiplication/

for more information. You can also learn more at…

http://www.infocusnet.org/collective/collective-disciplemaking/

Try Peacemaker Ministries…

https://pm.training/

They will go to the ends of the earth to help you overcome problems and build healthy relationships. (Thanks Christina!)

Down through the years, we’ve all searched for the best ways to teach/learn the names of all the countries of the world, their capitals, their seas/bays, and more. Sheppard Software has finally made it possible at…

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm

You’re going to love this.

Thanks Sheppard!

For years, we’ve studied Google News for all the news fit to print. But lately, we’ve begun wondering if the Associated Press website is a better source. See it at…

https://www.apnews.com/

Compare with our “old” Google News app by visiting…

https://news.google.com/?ned=us&hl=en

Which do YOU like better?

… Chinese Christian Resources for their $50 gift this pas week. They publish a listing at…

http://www.chinesechristianresources.org

with tons of resources in Mandarin/Chinese. Thank you!

Also, we’re thankful to ConnecTEFL, who finally broke the barrier and brought the world of teaching English into a format we can all consider. Learn more at…

http://connectefl.com

If we wanted to acquire accurate data as to how mission organizations are doing in their recruitment of new cross-cultural workers, where would we turn? Are we raising up more missionaries today than we did in 1975? … or fewer? Or about the same? If it’s fewer, do you have theories about why? To comment, just click “Comment” following the web version of this item. Let’s grow a solid list of links and personal testimony about our track record with Matthew 9:35-38. Thanks in advance for your help!

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