The Church faces two daunting challenges - rapid growth and stiff opposition. Both demand rooted, well trained, unified leaders.
We offer educational and technical expertise to ministries closing "...the largest leadership training gap in church history." We provide Bible resources that unify the Body of Christ in a disintegrating world.
Haiti Updates: MAF Aiding Relief Effort
Submitted by jmanley on Mon, 01/18/2010 - 09:56Click "Read more", below, and scroll down for earlier news and pictures of MAF's part in the Haiti earthquake relief and recovery effort. We will update this page as more reports come in.
20:28 (MST), Tuesday, 2 Feb 2010
Bob Dontje, career MAF missionary pilot, volunteering for duty in Haiti
There are many stories of what happened during the quake… ‘We had just gone up to the second level of the building when the quake hit. The roof collapsed and we were trapped in a two foot space. The shaking stopped and then started again and the roof came down to one foot. It took us forty five minutes to move and crawl thru the debris to get out.”
Also many stories of opportunities to help… ‘We had a truck load of food and went to the church. The food was divided into family parcels and given out. People did try and crowd around us and “take” the food. We kept some of the snack bars and gave them out to kids as we drove thru the neighborhood. They were so excited!’
Most of all are stories of needy people… ‘Please sir, we are trying to take care of two hundred orphans. Can you give us some food?’ ‘Give me a tent. All I need is a tent for my small child.’ ‘I am very thirsty. Can you give me some water to drink.’ And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward." Matthew 10:42
Story & Oral Strategies Workshop 16-20 Feb, Boise
Submitted by jmanley on Wed, 01/20/2010 - 13:24
80% of the world cannot or does not learn from reading
They prefer to learn by STORY
This workshop will train you to:
- Discover Bible truths
- Tell fascinating, accurate Bible stories
- Lead interactive, inductive Bible studies
- These skills will help you to:
- Reach media-literate North American culture
- Maximize your impact with those from other nations
- Explore the dynamic of oral strategies
- Lead others (even non-literates) to discover Bible truths they can share
Location: 5707 Castle Drive, Boise ID
Castle Hills Church of the Nazarene
Register at: http://www.maflt.org/feedback/wksp10feb or
e-mail Debbie@catchlife.net for further information
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Practitioner Workshop $30
· Learn to tell Bible stories and teach discussion style
· Become a Simply the Story (STS) Practitioner
· Materials, snack, Sat lunch
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Feb 18-20
Thu 5:30 - 9:30pm
Fri 5:30 - 9:30pm
Sat 8:00am - 5:30pm
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Leadership Workshop $90
· Learn to tell Bible stories and teach discussion style (Includes Practitioner Workshop)
· Become a Simply the Story (STS) Instructor
· Practice oral strategies targeted to your learners/leaders
· Materials, snacks, Tue, Wed, Sat lunch, Thu, Fri dinner
Limited space available
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Feb 16-20
Tue 8:00am - 5:30pm
Wed 8:00am - 5:30pm
Thu 1:00pm - 9:30pm
Fri 1:00pm - 9:30pm
Sat 8:00am - 5:30pm
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15 Years That Changed The World
Submitted by brhoads on Thu, 01/07/2010 - 11:22“The last 15 years have changed our world for ever,” claims Tony Whittaker, co-ordinator of Internet Evangelism Day. “Digital media are transforming the way we communicate, behave and even think. If Facebook was a country, it would have the fourth largest population in the world.”
Internet Evangelism Day is a strategic resource to help the worldwide church understand these issues and use the Web to share the good news. It is both a year-round online guide and an annual focus day - to be held this year on Sunday 25 April.
Churches are encouraged to use Internet Evangelism Day resources to create a presentation for their members on or near that Sunday (or at any other time they choose). The IE Day site offers free downloads: PowerPoint, video clips, handouts, drama scripts, music and posters. These enable any church (or homegroup, college, or conference) to build a customized program, lasting from five minutes to fifty.
2010’s focus day will be the sixth to be used by churches around the world since the initiative’s launch in 2005. Over this period, digital media have developed dramatically, with the advent of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, and the growing use of mobile phones to access online services.
The outreach opportunities have multiplied too. There are now more mobile phone users in Africa than any other continent.
DEScribe 1.2.5 Release
Submitted by thetrick on Mon, 12/07/2009 - 13:05MAF-LT is excited to announce a new release of DEScribe! DEScribe is a course authoring application that supports exporting to DEViewer. This release of DEScribe includes several smaller enhancements:
- Added a selected icon to the cascading style sheet display in the metadata tree. This is useful if a package contains multiple css files.
- The styles in the cascading style sheet are now automatically displayed in the WYSIWYG drop-down styles menu.
- Added the list of panes under the Windows menu item. Each pane can be shown or hidden from this menu.
- Added additional file types to the file-type selector in the insert images and resources dialog box
A set of completed tickets for this release is located on the DEScribe Trac site for release 1.2.5.1.
For more information and to download DEScribe 1.2.5, please visit the DEScribe product page.
