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Understanding the Culture

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:25:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A great clip from an interview with Mark Driscoll.

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My Counseling Staff for Carnaval Retreat

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:38:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I wish I had half their energy and enthusiasm. Perhaps some of it will rub off this week.

Clip Source: www.comingstobrazil.com

Convert Currency in Google

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:02:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I did not know about this. Pretty useful for someone in my line of work.

Clip Source: lifehacker.com

Google's powerful built-in converter calculator can help you out whether you're cooking dinner, traveling abroad, or building a PC. Find out how many teaspoons are in a quarter cup (quarter cup in teaspoons) or how many seconds there are in a year (seconds in a year) or how many euros there are to five dollars (5 USD in Euro). For the geekier set, bits in kilobytes (155473 bytes in kilobytes) and numbers in hex or binary (19 in binary) are also pretty useful.

Tags: currency conversion

Thoughts on Missions, Part One

Sat, 05 May 2007 18:18:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Some interesting thoughts and statistics published in Christianity Today.

Clip Source: www.christianitytoday.com

The map of global Christianity that our grandparents knew has been turned upside-down.

More Christians worship in Anglican churches in Nigeria each week than in all the Episcopal and Anglican churches of Britain, Europe, and North America combined. There are more Baptists in Congo than in Britain. More people in church every Sunday in communist China than in all of Western Europe. Ten times more Assemblies of God members in Latin America than in the U.S.

Christianity has never had a territorial center. Our center is the person of Christ, and wherever he is known, there is another potential center of faith and witness.

There are many more Korean missionaries than British, and some Nigerian evangelical mission organizations are larger in personnel than most Western ones (while operating on budgets that are a fraction of their Western counterparts').

So you are as likely to meet a Brazilian missionary in North Africa as a British missionary in Brazil.

Tags: missions, missionary, brazil, christianity, theology

Growth of "Protestantism" in Brazil

Sat, 05 May 2007 17:08:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In it's shift from ritualistic Catholicism to shallow Pentecostalism, Brazil is jumping from the spiritual frying pan into the spiritual fire.

People from the favelas flock to the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God--but no transformation is taking place in the favelas. Indeed, the favelas are getting worse, which the Universal Church gets richer.

Clip Source: www.jamaica-gleaner.com

Although Brazil still has more Catholics than any other country in the world, with about 125 million, the percentage of believers that practise the Vatican's brand of Christianity has been dropping rapidly in the last three decades.

"The face of Christianity in Brazil, and all over the developing world, is increasingly Pentecostal,"

They belong to denominations such as the Assemblies of God and the Universal Church, which was started in a Rio de Janeiro funeral home in 1977 and now has more than two million members.

Pentecostalism is especially strong in poor urban areas, where the precariousness of daily life - blackouts, violent crime, high unemployment - can make people seek divine intervention.

"The language of evangelicals is simple, direct, with minimal theology, making it easily understood by the masses,"

Tags: brazil, brazilian, religion, charismaticism, catholicism, pentecostalism

Missions Statistics

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:17:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The global missionary situation.

Clip Source: www.cmalliance.org

One third of earth’s people call themselves Christians.
One third of non-Christians live in already reached people groups.
One third of non-Christians live in unreached people groups.
680 million people (11.5%) are Evangelicals or Bible-reading Christians.

U.S. missionaries make up only 30 percent of the world’s missionaries. Our slightly declining annual number is being overtaken by increased participation from Africa, Latin America, and Korea.

Of those involved in missions in the US, 98% are Senders (Financial Supporters, Prayers, Letter, Mobilizers, Pastors, etc.), 0.5% are Servicers (Mobilizers, Administrative, Tech Support, Training, communications), 1.5% are Missionaries (Church Planting, Development, Tentmaking, Tribal Outreach, Health Services).

Tags: missions, mission, missionary, theology, evangelism, christianity, christian

Accident in front of Padre Cicero

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:51:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: People on their way to thank Padre Cicero for blessings received are killed by runaway garbage truck.

Tragic.

This is about three miles from where I live. I can see the statue of the Padre from my house.

Clip Source: diariodonordeste.globo.com

Oito pessoas morreram hoje pela manhã e 11 ficaram feridas em um acidente envolvendo um caminhão coletor de lixo com um ônibus circular, em Juazeiro do Norte, no Cariri cearense. O caminhão perdeu os freios, na descida da ladeira do Horto, onde está a estátua de Padre Cícero Romão Batista, batendo de frente com o ônibus.

Tags: brazil, brasil, brazilian, padre cicero, accident, juazeiro do norte, ceara

An Article About My Friend Jim Smith

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:53:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Jim is every bit as dedicated as this article makes him out to be.

Clip Source: www.blog.churchwebstop.com

One night I was in front of the class giving the treasurer's report, and asked for a volunteer to be my assistant treasurer. Out of the crowd, one person came forward. His name was Jim Smith.

Tags: missions, missionary, christianity, africa

Missions in Venezuela During the Dictatorship

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:39:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: God's work will go on, regardless of who is in power.

Clip Source: mnnonline.org

Trans World Radio's Jim Munger says many mission agencies are taking a 'wait and see' approach over continued work. Many are voluntarily pulling people out of the tribal areas and away from project zones and placing them in neighboring lower profile areas. Yet, despite a grim pattern, there's still hope.

Munger says China proved that. The Bamboo Curtain was tightly shut against missionary influence for decades, but when the Curtain parted, it revealed an already healthy and growing church network.

The same holds true for countries like Cuba and Venezuela. It all boils down to trust in God's plan. "In Cuba, which Chavez has openly stated that he is using as a pattern, in the last 15 years, we've seen a huge explosion of churches and Christian work in that country, with very few missionaries in from outside. So, God is sovereign and He can work, even though we can't send missionaries in."

Tags: venezuela, missions, hugo chavez, chavez, ministry, christianity, latin america

Christian Apologetics

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 03:13:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Interesting article. The author works hard to avoid "Christian-ese"

Clip Source: www.leaderu.com

Why I am a Christian

Professor William P. Alston

Tags: christianity, theology

Why I Love My Job

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:00:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Excuse the link to my own site, but I couldn't be prouder of the institution for which I work.

Clip Source: www.comingstobrazil.com

Facts From the Seminary

* In the past 60 years, our seminary has graduated 492 students.
* Of those 492 students, 168 are pastors.
* 84 are pastors wives.
* 33 are missionaries.
* 154 are involved in some part-time ministry.
* 5 are serving on foreign fields (including one in the US)
* Our graduates are currently serving as professors in six seminaries here in Brazil. There is a seminary in Fortaleza who's teaching staff is made up almost entirely of our former students.
* In all, 89 percent of our total number of graduates are currently involved in the ministry in some way.

Tags: brazil, brasil, brazilian, seminary, sbc, seminario batista do cariri

World Cup Prayer Guide

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:50:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This was put together by a missionary-blogger friend of mine here in Brazil. I thought it was very creative and well done.

Clip Source: www.mobilizingbrazil.com

World Cup Prayer Guide

Versão Portuguese

Copa do Mundo 2006 Guia de Oração,

Versão Portuguese:

A Copa do Mundo acontece apenas a cada quatro anos e para a maioria das pessoas, este é o maior evento no ano. 32 times de todo o mundo se unem para disputar o título de “Campeão Mundial.” Dezenas de milhões de pessoas estarão coladas em suas televisões acompanhando os jogos.

Que oportunidade perfeita de orar pelas nações do mundo!

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World Cup 2006 Prayer Guide

English Version:

The World Cup is perhaps the biggest, most important sporting event for 90% of the world. Occurring only once every four years, the World Cup brings together the top 32 teams from around the world.

As Christians, we have a perfect opportunity to pray for the Nations of the World.

Click on one of the following links to download the Prayer Guide.

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Tags: brazil, brazilian, world cup, portuguese, english prayer

Starbucks Missionaries?

Wed, 10 May 2006 05:33:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Did Christ envision this as part of the Great Commission?

Clip Source: www.mnnonline.org

Starbucks to quote Rick Warren on coffee cup

USA (PD/MNN) -- Coffee and a quote may be what attracts people to the Gospel. As the Starbucks coffee chain prepares to release a cup featuring a quote from Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life, in late April, Warren's Purpose Driven Ministries has launched a new online "coffeehouse” community – the Purpose Driven Cafe'.

Warren's quote is drawn from The Purpose Driven Life: "You are not an accident. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He wanted you alive and created you for a purpose. Focusing on yourself will never reveal your real purpose. You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. Only in God do we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny."

Tags: missions, mission, starbucks, evangelism, rick warren, purpose driven