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Compiled by Doug Lucas, Team Expansion, Louisville, KY (Yes, we’re behind; but we’re trying to catch up. :-) )(See your subscription information at the end under “Closing Stuff.”)At Brigada.org, comment on any item below, by name or anonymously!—In this issue…1) GLOBALCAST: A MISSIONS VIDEO PODCAST2) ESL TRAINING EVENT AT SOUTHERN BAPTIST SEMINARY3) WHERE DOES ONE [...]

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Do you have a passion to change the world? Do you believe that another world is possible? GlobalCAST is a video podcast with a global perspective. Go beyond borders and meet ordinary people doing meaningful things all over the world. To subscribe for free search for “globalcast” in your iTunes Store or go to: http://feeds.feedburner.com/globalcast [...]

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Sneak in 16 hours of extra training in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) on two Saturdays, September 13th and Saturday September 20th, 8am-5pm on each of those two days. The cost is $30 per individual or $40 per couple.Sign up by Friday August 29th by calling (502)-626-5525 or faxing 502-897-4182 or emailing

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Wes is looking for the best value on printed graphic banners for tabletop displays. He had previously ordered 30 at less than $30 each from a vendor called Designs2go. However, recently the price has more than doubled to $65 each. If you had to try to beat that price and find a great quality vendor, [...]

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Here’s your chance to get in on the ground floor of a new funding initiative for microenterprise loans. What I *can* tell you is that I know the people behind this initiative and they are the real deal. What I *can’t* tell you are the details. Learn those at: http://www.mpowr.org/ The way I understand it, [...]

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That’s what you can do now athttp://www.wycliffe.org/Kids/FreeCurriculum/PrayerLessons.aspx The free, colorful Prayer Journal offers children a service-learning project to help accelerate the pace of Bible translation, since God answers children’s prayers just as He answers adults’ prayers. Children can pray for 12 different people groups featured in the book From Akebu to Zapotec. They learn about [...]

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Tap into the more then 35 years of experience Bill Dillon brings to fund raising. Register by August 15th and save $50.The People Raising conference is designed to double your effectiveness in raising individual or organizational funds. The People Raising basic conference is set for September 12-13. Learn to move beyond the fear factor and [...]

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On August 29-31, House2House ministries will be hosting their yearly National House Church Conference in Dallas, TX.(See http://www.house2house.com/ for more information) The theme this year is House2Harvest. There will be several tracks of interest. Brigada readers might be interested in the Missions Track focusing on reaching the unreached. There will also be a “roundtable discussion” [...]

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Thank the Lord for a $75 gift from “a fellow kingdom worker in Taiwan that has often benefited from Brigada” (her quote, not mine [blush]). Thank you Taiwan! Thanks, too, for the $100 gift from another anonymous couple. The only thing I can tell you is that they are very involved in prayer for unreached [...]

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We have miles to go to reach the $17,150 that we set as the budget for 2008. Would you be willing to ask your church, friend, company or group to pitch in on the $3500 or so we’re lacking at the halfway mark of 2008? These funds go for secretarial help, costs of the website, [...]

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I’ve been struck lately by what a powerful tool we have here now, in the form of the Internet in general and these “Comments” on Brigada in particular. In the old days, someone would volunteer to act as a compiler for a special subject. We’d all send our emails to him/her and, with any luck, [...]

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DISCLAIMER — We can’t screen ‘em all. Please forgive us if aparticular site contains offensive information — or no information atall! We *try* to visit them in advance, but often write “on the road”so we simply *can’t* preview everything. PLEASE DON’T SUBSCRIBE US TO YOUR LIST — Sorry — nothing personal –but we’re already deluged. [...]

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Compiled by Doug Lucas, Team Expansion, Louisville, KY(Yes, we’re behind; but we’re trying to catch up. :-) )(See your subscription information at the end under “Closing Stuff.”)Comment on any item below, by name or anonymously!—In this issue…1) APOLOGIES TO NEIL DIAMOND: “THEY’RE COMIN’ TO BRIGADA”2) PEOPLE GROUP ADVOCATE SEEKING SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS3) JUST ANOTHER STM LEADERS [...]

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