Brigada

“Brigada: Since 1995… Buckets full of Resources, Trends, Challenges — all in a weekly e-zine & website…”Compiled by Doug Lucas, Team Expansion, Louisville, KY(Thanks for your patience as we ‘catch up’ with the publishing date.) In this issue…1) Can We Create A List Of Stats On The Muslim World?2) Celebrating The Society Of The Brethren [...]

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If your church is like mine, we’ve been involved in praying for the Muslim world throughout the past 30 days. Let’s create a listing of statistics, and links to other webpages full of statistics, for the Muslim world. For example, where can we find a list of the 60-65 nations where Islam is the dominant [...]

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In August, SVM2http://www.svm2.net/ sponsored the ‘GO Summit’ for mobilizers in Boston to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first student missions society in North America. The Society of the Brethren was formed at Williams College in 1808 and two years later another was formed at Andover Seminary in Boston. It was from this society that [...]

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Steve wrote, this past week, “You ‘advertised’ my web site 3-4 years ago. And I had committed to a donation when I had extra funds. I don’t have extra funds but things are improving. I would like to support you regularly in the future. Part of my ministry is to provide French books to the [...]

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Anyone who has a desire to learn English or to improve their English communication skills is encouraged to apply for this course sponsored by Youth With A Mission, Lebanon, PA, USA. The date of the school is March 2-May 22, 2009. Details and application form are listed on the website http://www.ywampa.org/ or email

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Harvey, veteran retired missionary Bible translator is recommending that TESL folks incorporate using English language audio Bibles in their programs. To learn more about how a combination of a printed English language New Testament and an audio New Testament with the same text enables one to learn English and to speak it fluently more quickly [...]

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Youth With A Mission (YWAM) in Lebanon, PA, USA desires to equip, train, and challenge students to reach the unreached! They are offering a Discipleship Training School (DTS) to help students grow in their faith and equip them to reach the nations with the Gospel. The school includes a 12-week lecture phase, including topics such [...]

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Here’s a new book, “Escaping the Devil’s Bedroom: Sex trafficking, global prostitution and the Gospel’s transforming power” by Dawn Herzog Jewell. The sex industry enslaves millions of women, children and men, but churches and individual Christians are fighting back. The author weaves the stories of individual victims with a careful examination of the realities that [...]

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Here’s an author who wants “to be a blessing to those who are a blessing!!” He has followed and served Jesus for over 40 years as a pastor, evangelist and professor. At the end of his ministry he wants to encourage the Body of Christ by providing free all of his Bible studies!1. over 8,000 [...]

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This past week, a Team Expansion worker in Northern Africa sent $100 for Brigada and its ministry. Team Expansion can be found athttp://www.teamexpansion.org/Another worker, this one from Interserve, sent $136.22. Interserve is on the web athttp://www.interserveusa.org/Yet another worker, this one serving in Alaska, wrote, “I have been reading Brigada for quite a while now and [...]

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Here’s a chance for you — or someone you know — to have a major building named after you/them — or named after whatever other relative, hero, … whatever you choose. By Christmas, Lord willing, Brigada will be moving out to a new missions campus in Louisville known as “Emerald Hills.” Learn more about it [...]

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Have you been noticing lately just how much attention *storytelling* is receiving? We’ve always known that Jesus enjoyed teaching through stories or parables. As a kid, we found that stories were the stuff we remembered, not lectures. So in some ways, “storying” isn’t new at all. But think about it — there have probably been [...]

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