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“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) Great Responses To Question On Educating Mk’s 2) Know Any Good Christian Lawyers? 3) China Sojourn: [...]

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1) GREAT RESPONSES TO QUESTION ON EDUCATING MK’S — Thanks to all those who responded to the question about the best plan for educating MK’s. We were struck by the heartfelt responses. If you haven’t stopped by to read (and/or respond), check out the growing thread at: http://www.brigada.org/2008/10/1-calling-all-parents.html

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Save all the jokes. Our attorney friends have heard them all. Anyway, what we’re looking for in this case are practices and/or attorneys who specialize in international law. Please don’t post individual email addresses or phone numbers. (These attorneys are already busy enough without having to handle a new load of spam.) Rather, please list, [...]

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A new 40-page book has been published by media consultant Dan Henrich. Henrich writes: “This first volume represents a small number of children in China. Think of each as representing people groups who have few Christians – unreached with the Good News. I would like to challenge you to simply pray through this book of [...]

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Intermin.org is completely rebuilt. Its many articles on marriage, parenting, choosing a life partner, and a chronological study of the Life of Jesus are available now in English, Simplified and Traditional Mandarin. The Marriage articles are also available in Spanish. These resources are easy to download and print for free distribution. Check out http://intermin.org/ Contact [...]

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Websites and blogs are tremendous tools for ministry. In order to help webmasters and bloggers point people to the Bible, Logos Bible Software has released a free site plugin called RefTagger http://www.reftagger.com/ that will convert any Bible reference on your website into a link that, when hovered over, will display the actual text of scripture. [...]

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6) FREE MEDICINE SHIPMENT FOR THOSE WHO CAN HELP DISTRIBUTE — Can you help distribute medicines to small clinics around the world? If so, the people at “Giving Children Hope” need your help. They are distributing pharmaceutical packages air freighted to international airports in developing countries. The package contains a mix of medicines including anti-worming [...]

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Dr. Evelyn Davis, International Training Consultant (with others assisting), will train participants how to facilitate half or full days of reflection and prayer, and short retreats, May 13-22, 2009 at White Oak Conference Center in Winnsboro, SC (not far from our JAARS location in Waxhaw). The reflection and prayer topics are: A Spiritual Inventory and [...]

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Namibia has elected officials but it also has a system of chiefs for the different people groups. Recently, a debate arose and continues over which leader should be chief. Maybe this can serve as a reminder of Namibia’s need for the chief of chiefs. Pray for the unreached peoples of Namibia. As they search for [...]

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Cyberspace Ministry offers, since 1995, free services and resources such as Online Spiritual Gifts Assessments, Christian Comic Strips, Bible Wordokus, Monthly Drawings, and much more. Take a look at: http://www.cyberspaceministry.org/ or email them at:

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Hello Tigard, Oregon! Thanks for sending $25 to enable Brigada’s servers to serve the world! We appreciate you!!! Thanks to Blessed Hope for sending $20.16 — a direct result of those who use their quality telecommunications services. Learn more about them at: http://www.lowermyphonebill.com/brigada/ Thanks also to San Luis Rey, California ($100) and, most amazing of [...]

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Per Justin Long’s idea (or momentum.org), for the rest of 2008, we’re trying to find just 90 “True Fans”, each to give one gift of $100. Amazingly, already the equivalent of 53 have stepped up to the plate. (See our banner at the top of this page with the “Wilsons” volleyballs on it — 53 [...]

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I just returned tonight from a trip to the Middle East, primarily in a country that filters Internet access through a national proxy. None of the hotel rooms (that I stayed in) had in-room Internet… so it was Internet cafes for me in each stop. You’ve heard us say before on Brigada — the only [...]

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