What if there was a resource that enabled your short-term mission teams to become more effective? Wouldn’t it be great to have a tool that helped you multiply and equip your leaders for short-term missions? DELTA’s Team Leader Training will give your leaders practical, hands-on instruction on building character, team unity, bridges to cross cultures, [...]

The Maasai of East Africa share their stories in song. The En-Kata Choir in Tanzania sings their beautiful music to their Creator. This is just one song of ten for which we will be helping to make music videos so the songs can be shared all over East A…

Here’s a Brigada participant developing a project that will use a web platform specifically designed for missionaries that links to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and allows donors to submit contributions.   http://www.ArkPages.com   Seems to offer a lot of promise. (Thanks Bryon!)

TRAIN International offers a workshop called ACCESS (Assisting and Coaching Churches to Effectively Send and Sustain). They have openings on Saturday, July 9 for Columbus, Ohio and on Saturday August 13 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. These workshops address…   *** Missions Strategy in the Local Church *** Caring for Missionaries *** Caring for Missionary Kids *** [...]

Looking for a new “how to” manual on church planters? Try Garrison’s new page located at …   http://t4tonline.org/online-training/   The website is one of the key methods that some of the CPers have used. It includes videos and teaching material designed to help a trainee lead T4T groups. (Thanks to Carla, Editor at Team [...]

Here’s a new missions preparation seminar, “Basics2go,” that begins with five live online sessions of 30 minutes each, one per week. The next cycle begins on May 19th. The initial teaching will offer some follow up with group or individual coaching. To enroll in a future seminar email contactelijahcompanyorg

A newly released Short-Term Mission Starter Kit, developed by DELTA Ministries International (DELTA), in Vancouver, Wash., is now available online for churches and ministries around the world.  This website gives churches and organizations nearly 40 resources for prayer, encouragement, training, post-ministry follow-through, and a comprehensive referral list of more than 60 short-term mission resources. This [...]

CCI is offering two training seminars in April to assist those in the missions community with security and training needs.   Field Security Seminar – April 4-6, 2011 – A three-day program that instructs on target hardening, profile management, disrupting the terrorism and attack cycles, managing violent encounters, convoys, checkpoints/ambushes and dealing with landmines, UXO [...]

TRAIN International is offering “Acquire,” language acquisition training in Joplin, MO from April 4-15, 2011. Eric Derry leads this two-week intensive training and empowering cross-cultural workers with the best-known current strategies and tools based on the best-known textbooks. At Acquire, you will: *** Learn proven and effective principles and techniques of language acquisition *** Understand [...]

75% of the Bible is in story form. You can learn to tell fascinating accurate Bible stories and lead interactive discussions that can change lives. TRAIN International is hosting a Biblical storytelling seminar conducted by the ministry Simply The Story March 29 – April 2 in Joplin, Missouri. This method of inductive storytelling is an [...]