Brigada

In This Issue…Back By Popular Demand, Good Ole’ BrigadaUse This Site To Set Up Your Next Group TripLooking For A Way To Tag Your Photos?Multipoint Webconferencing With Low Bandwidth DemandArise Shine MoroccoCatch The Short-Term Missions ConferenceFollow-Through Conference For Short-Term MinistryGlobal Recordings: Just Keeps On Going And GoingHarvest Information System Adds Features Multiple ListingsYwam To Offer [...]

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We have heard a chorus of voices… and most were loud and clear: “Please give us back the ‘old’ Brigada!” :-) If you were enjoying our experiments at HTML- and graphics-encoding, you were apparently in the minority. :-) So we’re back this week with the same format that has characterized Brigada since it began Jan. [...]

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Try it. You might like it. Have the various members of your group log on to help plan the same trip. They’ll all pick up the itinerary a lot more effectively, which might help them hone in their expectations precisely for the trip you’re planning together. Log on at: http://www.tripit.com/ There’s no charge… and you [...]

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This is an ongoing challenge… how to deal with all these digital media we make today. Working with pictures can be so time-consuming — tagging, captioning, cleaning up the image, posting on a website, sharing the site with others, Yikes…. What are we thinking? :-) Sounds like we need some really good tools. Try… http://www.itagsoftware.com/ [...]

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My friend, Curt, wanted to let us know that he has recently begun representing iZonIP, which is web conferencing software that has three applications. First, meetings with up to 24 participants for collaborative purposes. A whiteboard is available for document sharing and revision. Second, a webinar application allows you to broadcast into dozens of locations [...]

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Efforts are now well underway to produce an all new English language edition of the popular Arise Shine Morocco (ASM) “52 Weeks of Prayer for Morocco and Its Peoples” Prayer Guide. The new 64-page, undated booklet will be available this September. Special pre-publication discounts for bulk orders to be mailed directly from the printers will [...]

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The Fellowship of Short-Term Mission Leaders conference is coming quickly to an October near you. That Wednesday-through-Saturday conference in Atlanta will focus on MemberCare and will feature Brent Lindquist and George and Donna Warren. There’s lots more info at: http://www.fstml.org

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This conference is designed for anyone who has served on a short-term or mid-term mission trip, at a camp, studied abroad or any other type of ministry. Those who want to live devoted lives to Christ every day will be equipped and encouraged through general sessions, seminars, worship and connecting with others who have a [...]

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– If you haven’t stopped by… http://globalrecordings.net/ Might be a good idea to make it by there sometime soon. Greg, our I.T. guy here at Team Expansion, recently reminded me of the site… which features recordings from/for people groups all over the world. Definitely worth sampling. (Thanks Greg!)

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Not to be left off your list of research stopovers is http://www.harvestinformationsystem.info/ which contains what looks to be a ton of legacy people group information, along with data tables from Bible translators, researchers, and even the CIA. Highly recommended. (Thanks for the tip, Greg!)

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Youth With A Mission Jacksonville will be offering a School of Frontier Missions from August 31 – December 19 of this year. This school is geared toward those who want to work on the frontiers to reach the unreached. For more information go to http://www.ywamjax.com/ or call (904)384-8400, or E-mail Aaron at

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That’s Ashville, AL (35 min. north of B’ham, 2 hrs from both Atlanta and Chattanooga) to be precise. It’s even furnished (except for LR) 3BR/2BA, Lg LR/DR, B’fast room, 2 car garage converted to den, LG utility room with W/D, study (now holding a twin bed, but without a closet) on 8.5 acres. Approximately 1/2 [...]

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We’re Forever Grateful …-…to those who urge us on with prayer and/or giving. The pastor of the Abundant Life Christian Fellowship urged us on this past week with a special gift of $25. If every pastor, missionary, or church leader would follow his lead, we’d make our financial goal then I give you my word [...]

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