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Pine Cove
800-225-9069
Pine Cove offers FREE lodging Monday noon to Thursday noon for those in full time ministry or seminary students. Meals are not included. You must make reservations. This may work well for those who need to get away alone to seek God and intercede for a while.
Franklin Covey
800-508-1492
Franklin Covey offer a wide range of time management resources. These include all sizes and styles of binders. There are handheld devices, software and much more. Sooner than later the missionary (and their spouse) needs to keep up with all kinds of meetings, appointments, names, addresses, phone numbers, emails and other data.
Cam Audio
800-527-3458
Cam audio has ALL the equipment and supplies the missionary may need in an audio related way. There are public address systems, recorders, duplicators, cases of blank tapes and much more.
Dell
800-999-3355
Lap top computer is a necessary tool these days for a missionary. What is a carpenter without a saw? You can perceive this as a necessity and not a luxury for a long-term missionary. Pray and believe God to provide either a used one or a new one. Note that Dell can custom make a computer according to your needs. That is how they started. So ask those who have gone where you are going what kinds of hardware and software you may need.
Yellow Pages
For a ready source of used computers and parts go to the Yellow Pages under Computer & Equip Dealers – Used.
Data Projectors – various dealers
http://www.projectorsforsale.com/
http://www.projectorwarehouse.com/
Data projectors are the devices that takes the signal from the lap top computer and project is on the screen. It can also take a signal from a VCR. The data projector is an essential tool (along with a laptop) for teaching, preaching and raising support. Pray hard, ask others and shop around before buying any costly electronics.
Missionary Tech Team
903-757-4530
Tech Team provides custom graphics for prayer cards, brochures and banners.. They provide the tabletop displays at a subsidized price –these go on top of the table where the missionary displays their brochures and newsletter. They help with designing and maintaining web sites Also they provide a lease car (or van) on convenient terms for the missionary on home assignment or furlough. You need to reserve the vehicle as far in advance as possible. Tech Team are located in Longview just 2 hours east of Dallas.
Bible Training Centre for Pastors (BTCP)
Bible Training Centre for Pastors has first class training materials for native pastors and lay leaders on the field. These are ten modules of 40-60 classroom hours for each module in all major languages. This is meant to be an abbreviated and affordable seminary education for those who could never attend a seminary.
Crown Financial Ministries
Crown Financial Ministries has all of the materials that Larry Burette has produced over many years. These can teach the missionary how to manage their money better. Money can be a cause for anxiety for a missionary. Here are tools to get on top and stay on top of the financial affairs. By learning to excel in this area; you can become a great source of leadership for others in better managing their financial affairs.
Praise Banners
800-226-6377
Praise Banners sells banners, kits, supplies, flags of all kinds, teaching materials (how to make banners) Could be used to 1) transform a living room (cell group) into more of a place of worship, 2) add visual dimension to the worship in the sanctuary, 3) way to focus on the names of God and the precious promises. They also have flags from all countries.
Klutz
800-558-8944
Klutz offers educational products, games and other fun things for children and youth. These are the kinds of things all kids did before TV and the Web. In countries where those are not available these items could be very valuable. These can serve the missionary’s family as well as for youth groups, Sunday school activities and community outreaches to children.
Health EDCO
800-299-3366
Health EDCO offers hundreds of excellent health education products for community outreach programs like nutrition, pre-natal care, and drug abuse prevention.
Pleasant Word
800-326-4674
Pleasant Word gets your Christian book into print. They offer various packages that include cover design, ISBN, bar code, copyright, Library of Congress, promotion to Christian bookstores, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, fulfillment service and more. This is part of Winepress Publishing. They can produce a Web site to promote your book(s) http://www.wppromotions.com/ Length of your book needs to be 108 to 740 pages.
Writers Digest
Wide range of resources for all kinds of writers. There are books, software, correspondence courses and much more for writers. The magazine Writers Digest has excellent articles and useful ads.
Booher Consultants 817-318-6521
http://www.booherconsultants.com/
Wide range of resources on writing, grammar, oral presentation, customer service, interpersonal skills, personal productivity and course development.
Heifer Intentional
800-698-2511
Heifer trains families in developing countries in how to take care of domestic livestock like, chickens, ducks, sheep, goats, heifer, water buffalo, llama, etc. When the family is ready they are given top quality stock provided that they promise to give some to the off spring to others in the community. This provides a source for food, income and fertilizer for their garden. They have various fund raising projects in the USA to fund this including Read to Feed. I tell missionaries to find out if they are active in their area. If not, then study the materials and adapt it to the local needs.
Scriptographic Publications
These are the little booklets you may have seen with simple graphic and minimum words. They have titles related to health, safety, nutrition, leadership and basic Bible knowledge. These can be used for outreach, follow up and Sunday school. If you buy in quantity they can print the name of the organization, missionary or church on the cover.
Rose Publishing
800-532-4278
http://www.rose-publishing.com/
Rose Publishing offers dozens of top quality posters that are aimed at teaching the Bible basics. They have effectively displayed the knowledge that a person may encounter in a Sunday school class or in a special page of a study Bible. These are great to hang on the walls of a church classroom, fellowship hall or other place where believers gather. They offer masters for handouts on the back of most posters. The continual challenge for a missionary is to teach Bible basics to new believers as well as those growing into leadership.
Masterplanning Group
888-443-1976
http://www.masterplanninggroup.com/
Masterplanning offers all kinds of aids for planning, organizing, staffing and leadership development. The missionary needs to be wise in balancing the short term and long term. The resources have wisdom, insight and interactive tools from a man who has consulted dozens of churches, missions organizations and corporations can be a huge boost.
Vision Forum
800-440-0022
Missionaries go to the foreign field for years and decades. Children are born and raised overseas. The teaching of American history, values and ideals is what the parents want to pass along to their children. Vision Forum offers an amazing selection of books, videos and other items. These are unique.
Prairie Bible College
800-785-4226
Prairie Bible College offers a complete Bachelor of Ministry and Graduate Diploma in Theology by distance education without resident requirements. Here is a way for a missionary and/or spouse to continue education while on the field. Surely other institutions will be doing this more in the future. Go to the Web sites of those you hear the best reports about and investigate. If it is not available now then email, write and/or call. There is a high probability that this is in the works and could launch in a year or two.
Outreach
800-991-6011
Outreach offers a wide selection of affordable products to better invite people to visit your church and to keep coming back. They have attractive jumbo post cards, brochures, door hangers banners and many other items. They offer a one-day training http://www.outreachtraining.com/ and have a three ring binder that teaches the basics of church growth. A missionary may be responsible to plant a church or help grow one. These items can be made here and taken to the field. Or understand the concepts and hire a printer overseas.
Overseas Insurance Consultants
770-663-0114
Overseas Insurance Consultants has been serving missionaries and their families since 1985. There are other companies that do this too. Ask many people for referrals. Surf the Web. Get several quotes. Go with optimum protection. Maybe a church or individual would be used by God to underwrite the important cost of adequate insurance. (The mission agency may provide or recommend.)
Discover the World
626-577-9502
http://www.discovertheworld.org/
They offer a journal especially for short-term missionaries. It is focused on answering the question “What is God teaching me through this experience?”
Deeper Roots
407-293-8666
Deeper Roots offers devotional studies that will challenge, encourage and teach short-termers to discover and apply spiritual life principles. These user-friendly workbooks will help those who go to improve the spiritual impact of the trip and assist with the stresses of cross-cultural ministry.
Creative Memories
www.creativememories.com/home.asp
Creative Memories offer a wide variety of ways to store and display your pictures. They offer all kinds of related products to create an attractive scrapbook of your journey to the mission field. You can take this with you when visiting churches, donors and intercessors.
Emergency Essentials
800-999-1863
Emergency Essentials offers all kinds of dehydrated foods and specialized gear. If these things can work for disaster preparedness and survival camping, then it can work in any mission field. This is a way to bring a measure to safety and comfort to difficult living conditions on the mission field.
Love to Learn
Love to Learn has LOTS of home school resources for the missionary’s children and to adapt as community outreach.
Creative Graphics
800-368-3671
http://www.creativegraphicsgifts.com/
Creative Graphics sells top quality note cards and bookmarks to Christian bookstores. These include the items with pressed dried flowers that are sealed. These could become a special way to communicate with the best supporters. You will need to buy in bulk. But then God is going to give you a large and growing support base for years to come. Amen?
Trainer’s Warehouse
800-299-3770
http://www.trainerswarehouse.com/
Amazing selection of resources for teachers of all types and those involved with leadership training. Here are top quality teaching tools, ways to gain and maintain student attention, how to inject fun, how to engender teamwork activities, lots more.
Fire Fighters for Christ
http://www.firefightersforchrist.org/
Hundreds of audio tapes send out for FREE – great teachings and testimonies – apologetics, counter-cult, Christian humor (Isaac Air Freight and others) also hundreds of other messages online. This is helpful to both feed the missionary’s soul and to start a lending library on the field to build up the believers. Ask for permission because I think they will allow you to duplicate these with a label containing your own contact information. This could become a nice premium to send to your supporters.
Light Source
Light Source has thousands of messages online for free, pay for download or on CD.
Internet Public Library
The IPL is many things:
* the first public library of and for the Internet community
* an experiment, trying to discover and promote the most effective roles and contributions of librarians to the Internet and vice versa
* a group of highly talented, creative, strong-willed people, working hard
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