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) Testimony From Long-Time Brigada Reader, Justin Long 2) Check Out The Worldconnex Website And [...]

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Justin wrote just a few days ago to say, “Dear Doug, I’m happy to make a $100 contribution to Brigada, as I have been a long time fan. Through Brigada I’ve been able to spread research requests. Brigada was one of the original places I put notice of Momentum Magazine, as I recall. Time and [...]

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Whoa. If you ever wanted to see an example of a sharp website (it must be Flash?), visit: http://www.worldconnex.org/ It’s worth going for the model site, even if these folks weren’t involved in church missions activation, building unreached people networks, and helping your church send missionaries long-term. At least consider signing up for their free [...]

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Empowerment, transformation, and innovation take skill to produce. The 60-hour Core Coaching Skills Certificate Program, is a unique training for church multiplication leaders integrating Biblical values, professional coaching skills, and cross-cultural ministry. Learn in-person and by telephone. Courses are slated in London in February; Seattle in March; and Burgundy, France in June; Melbourne in August; [...]

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Bill will tell you plain and simple — his passion is for the 40 million unreached Azerbaijani people of Azerbaijan and Iran. He raises interest regularly for the North American Azerbaijani Network, whose goal is to raise awareness among the Church in North America of the need for mission amongst this people group.http://www.azerbaijanipartnership.org/ Bill’s life [...]

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Horizons International offers training on “Engaging Islam” in several locations, including Colorado, Michigan, Lebanon, Russia, and Brazil. Lengths vary from a weekend conference to a year-long internship. The next training session will be coming up in Holland, Michigan, 16-17 January and in Colorado Springs, 19-30 January. For more details, check:

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Are you having a hard time finding affordable health insurance here in the US? Have you recently become unemployed? Have you just recently returned to the US from overseas and without insurance? If so, be sure to contact Insurance Services of America and ask for their “Amigo” short-term major medical plan. ISA is a Christian [...]

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OK… here’s your chance to vote: Which browser are you preferring for general missions use and why? How do you use some special feature… one that perhaps nobody else has thought about? For example, I recently tried out FireFox again and, for a fleeting moment, I thought I’d like the tags. So… vogue. Somehow I [...]

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It’s here today, a clear and present danger. See… http://www.persecution.com/ for more information. The recent Int’l Day of Prayer for the Persecuted church seemed to garner lots of attention for martyrs and those on the way to becoming such. (Thanks Brian!)

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House2Harvest Network is a web based network that has been established to serve the thousands of simple (house, emerging, post-modern churches and the like) churches. This network will help these churches and missions ministries connect with one another to provide training, consultation and resources to facilitate mobilization, deployment and engagement to the unreached as well [...]

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Bethany Ministries offers residential member care to around 2000 Christian workers from around Asia each year. They are looking for another couple to join this expanding work. They should have the gifts of listening and loving as well as computer and admin skills. Accommodation is provided in beautiful surroundings and the rewards are seeing workers [...]

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With current global economic concerns one reader is looking for anything written (books, articles, dissertations) on how missions did during the Great Depression of the late 1920s and early 1930s. It would be great to learn from the lessons of the past. Please just click “Comment” below to mention your reference (anonymously if you like) [...]

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Action Children in Crisis ministry offers free copy (or copies) of the 92-page condensed street children manual “Restoring Children of the Streets.” Contact Candi in USA or Scott in Canada Sorry but they say they can only ship to USA and Canada addresses.

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