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) Journals, Made By Hand, Like Indiana Jones Would Use2) Is Cellphone Security Even Worse Than We Thought?3) [...]

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You’ve *got* to see these to appreciate them… http://www.sparrowtracks.etsy.com/ Here’s an artist (“Shawn”) who has the coolest moonlighting hobby. Shawn hunts down one-of-a-kind aged books, removes most of the original pages, then replaces them with parchment pages upon which you can write your journal – or take notes — or make plans — or draw [...]

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Here’s a question from a field worker who writes, “Our mission team is located in a ‘police state.’ We know the police listen to our phone calls regularly. We also know they can use triangulation to locate us. We’re fine with that stuff. :-) But now we’re facing a couple of new concerns: “*** REMOTELY [...]

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Here’s a worker who has to give a talk on “5 critical agency-missionary issues that will heavily influence your success as a missionary.” It’s an interesting query. Would you be willing to give your opinion? For example, how important is it that the agency provides accountability on language learning, … strategy, … finances? Which of [...]

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The extremely popular website http://www.freeenglishnow.com/ is currently downloading at the rate of 900G per month. You can add a free version of this English course to your own website to increase both your website traffic and your ministry. Look at the introduction at http://www.handheldenglish.com/selq_example/ You can download the American accent course directly from http://www.handheldenglish.com/selq/freeenglishshorta.iso (321M) [...]

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You can have current missions info for your children’s missions groups, AWANAS, home school support group, etc. with BGR to GO for Kids. Read about how human needs are being met around the world as well as how KIDS can get involved. Your kids will also learn some geography along the way! To subscribe email [...]

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Literacy and Evangelism International is hosting a five-week International Literacy Training Institute from June 14 to July 18, 2009 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Topics include Basic Literacy, developing Bible-content literacy materials in local languages, Evangelism through literacy, Discipleship through literacy, teaching English as a Second Language, how to train tutors, and how to run church-based literacy [...]

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See http://www.vulnerablemission.com/ for details of regional conferences in the USA in January 2009. ‘Vulnerable Christian Mission’ is that practiced by western missionaries reaching non-westerners using the resources and language of the non-westerners in ministry. By working within the parameters of those being reached, vulnerable missionaries avoid creation of dependency, the prosperity Gospel and the unintended [...]

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We continue to follow the stories about the alleged compromise of Skype as a secure means of communication. See, for example, http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/02/surveillance-of-skyp.html Note that if one were to use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to log onto Skype in the USA, one might theoretically be able to assume a greater degree of privacy since it [...]

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Excitement is the only word to describe what is about to happen in northwest Namibia. In April and May you prayed for an association leader from Texas as he visited this part of Namibia to investigate the possibility of his association adopting one of the Forgotten People of Namibia. They have decided to adopt the [...]

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Thanks to the friend from Tulsa who gave $50 to Brigada recently. And hats off to the Brigada participants from way up in Wisconsin and Alaska who each shared $100 respectively. We noted that the donor from Wisconsin had a special burden for training up mighty men of God. He had written, “According to David [...]

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Hey… I’ll try just about anything. :-) Check out: http://www.myspace.com/douglucasmusic Note that you need not register at MySpace to listen or download music there. Note that Doug arranged and recorded each piece, using only a Yamaha keyboard to make all those unique sounds. (Exception: On a couple of the songs, Doug’s 22-year-old son pitched in [...]

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I’ve heard it both ways. Some say the economy squeezes charitable giving. See for example, the article in the Ohio University Post at http://www.thepost.ohiou.edu/Articles/Culture/2008/10/06/25728/ Also see the very fine report at http://philanthropy.com/free/articles/v20/i08/08000601.htm in The Chronicle of Philanthropy.But others maintain that giving seems to be the least-impacted in times of financial crunch. What’s your situation? Jot [...]

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