More Effective Meetings, Gendercide, the 'Missionary Call,' and more

Here are this month's headlines from around the web.  Enjoy.  Feel free to leave a comment and share a headline that you have recently enjoyed.

• Seven Rules for More Effective Meetings - have you ever sat through an ineffective meeting?  They are no fun.  In this article, Michael Hyatt shares some valuable information to help us run better meetings. 
     
• The Inevitability of "Gendercide" and its Other Deadly Effects - John Piper writes "163,000,000 unborn baby girls have been killed in Asia over the last three decades. That’s more than the entire female population of the United States."
    
• Don't Complicate the "Missionary Call" - Another great article at the Desiring God blog.  It begins "I was never called to be a missionary, nor was I drafted. I volunteered. No special call was needed. I chose to go; I wanted to go; I was compelled to go."
   
• Introducing Acampamento Elim - Andrew Comings, missionary to Brazil, writes of another exciting Brazilian Camp ministry that is in the initial planning stages.
    
• New 9marks eJournal - 9marks Ministries has released their latest eJournal.  I always look forward to these.  This edition is titled "The Pastor and his Staff, Part 2."

Past editions of Headlines:

• Homeschooling, Motherhood, and Space Shuttle Atlantis
• More Heroes ~ A Truck Driver, A Brazilian Pioneer Missionary, & A Persecuted Pastor
• Social Gospel, Seeds Family Worship, and 'Tempted and Tried'
• Facebook Makes Us Miserable, AFD in Baptist Bulletin, and Haiti Video