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) Time To Revisit Fundraising/Accounting Software 2) New Book: Preach And Heal 3) Try Using This Free [...]

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Which kind do you prefer? Quickbooks? “Church Missions”? What’s your favorite and why? Just click on “Comment” below and don’t forget to provide a link to the site for your preferred tool. Thanks!

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Humanitarian and evangelistic missions often are portrayed as incompatible with each other. We’ve all heard the arguments; some of us have even been caught up in them. We’ve all seen missions that limit themselves to one or the other. Doesn’t humanitarian work inevitably compromise the evangelistic message? Isn’t a ministry of presence sufficient without a [...]

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New and improved… You can download free Bible correspondence courses from http://www.internationalbibleschool.org/ Recently, the courses’ writers have improved and reduced the size of the offerings there.

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Guaranteed Results! Kingdom Come Training has recently completed an eight-month study of six leading faith mission agencies, and has learned that with the right training, coaching and follow-up process missionaries can reasonably expect to raise their full budget within ten months. As a result, KCT has added expert staff and revised its identity from being [...]

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See the website that Tony and the group have already launched regarding reaching out to Japan. http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/digital-japan Be the difference-maker for a world in need; help Tony get started.

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There’s been some chatter recently, stirred in part by Brigada participant, Doug W., as to whether or not he might be able to use Twitter in overseas communication and reporting. If you’re a regular Twitter user, would you jot a note in the Comments below about how you employ it??? Please mention any limitations and [...]

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Bob Utley has incorporated a life-time’s Bible College ministry into his online Free Bible Commentary. For people in the non-Western world with limited or expensive web access, he is willing to ship the entire contents of the commentary on CD http://www.freebiblecommentary.org/ (Thanks for the tip, Tony!)

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Hats off to Kathy, for helping us start a thread on Skype security — or the lack thereof. She drew our attention to… http://missionarygeek.blogspot.com/2008/10/skype-monitored-in-china-intra-and.html and from the NY Times, earlier this month …http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/technology/internet/02skype.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 These sites document that skype conversations are both censored AND archived in China…long suspected, but now confirmed.

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The BodyBuilders “Personal Support Raising Boot Camp” is a two-day intense training for first-time support raisers and under-funded veterans. Their goal: Getting you to 100% in 100 days! Check out our website for more details at http://www.thebodybuilders.net/ or email them at Upcoming Boot Camp dates:Salem, OR—December 1-2, 2008Dallas, TX—January 26-27, 2009Nashville, TN—February 9-10, 2009Colorado Springs, [...]

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Thanks to Justin Long, who recently suggested we hunt for “True Fans” of Brigada that would each give $100. For the rest of 2008, we only need to find just 90 more, since we already have over $6000 in the mix so far. (Next year, we could settle the entire year if we just found [...]

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Most of us love it when heavenly bodies get together. There’s just something special about rendezvous. Take for instance… the evening sky… just after sunset on December 1st (2008). You’ll see Jupiter, Venus, and the crescent moon low in the southwest (assuming you’re not too far north in your vantage point) and that close triangle [...]

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