“Brigada: Since 1995… Buckets full of Resources, Trends, Challenges — all in a weekly e-zine & website…”Compiled by Doug Lucas, Team Expansion, Louisville, KY(Almost caught up!) In this issue… 1) For Men Only: Prayers For Your Wife 2) Extremely Good Experiences At Extreme Missionary Adventures 3) Perspectives Semester Coming Up 4) New Kids’ Missions Resources [...]
2008/12/07 — Brigada Today
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Tags: · Table of Contents
1) For Men Only: Prayers For Your Wife
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Andrew has just made available a helpful resource – a book of prayers for your wife – over 240 prayers where you can minister to your wife as never before. Consider this a loving investment in the length of your marriage, ministry and spiritual health of your wife. Andrew wrote, “I’ve been helped by the [...]
Tags: · Devotional, family, Prayer
2) Extremely Good Experiences At Extreme Missionary Adventures
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Extreme Missionary Adventures is a faith-based, non-profit organization dedicated to helping volunteers make a positive impact on their world. They raise up volunteers who share the love of Jesus with overlooked people in remote locations around the world and help with human needs such as medical, dental, clean water, construction, educational and other basic needs. [...]
Tags: · Short-term missions
3) Perspectives Semester Coming Up
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Perspectives on the World Christian Movement is one of the greatest tools for mobilizing churches and individuals toward global engagement. Over 160 classes are starting this January, and they will be featuring the new 4th Edition of the text. Find a class near you or near a friend at http://www.perspectives.org/ We *regularly* run into cross-cultural [...]
Tags: · Perspectives
4) New Kids’ Missions Resources – Venezuela
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Help the kids in your church learn about life for boys and girls in Venezuela. WMU’s new “Kids Reaching Kids: Venezuela” resources include mission stories, posters, crafts, games, recipes, and more, to help leaders plan a Venezuela-themed missions event. Kids’ booklets help boys and girls learn how to pray for MKs and other children in [...]
Tags: · Children
5) Culturally-Sensitive Evangelism Resources On Mormonism
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The Western Institute for Intercultural Studies offers two resources on Mormonism for youth and adults. Both provide an understanding of Mormonism as a culture with an emphasis on evangelism. These include Grounded, for youth groups, and Bridges for adults. Both resources include video segments for training on DVD, facilitator workbooks and study guides. Further information [...]
Tags: · Mormons
6) Still Using Windows? Me Too. Join Me At This Site
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I know, I know. Many of your friends have fled to MAC’s… and you constantly wonder if you should join them. But you can’t quite help but notice that lots of people are still left on Windows too. Sure — MAC users have multiplied by a factor of 4 times over just in the past [...]
Tags: · annoyances, I.T.
7) Thanks To Those Who Keep The Brigada Light Burning
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Hello Jacksonville, Florida!!! … where a new “True Fan” of Brigada has helped us keep the Brigada lights burning! Thanks for the $100 gift. Thanks, too, to the couple hard at work in Oaxaca, Mexico, for their vision and partnership — another True Fan of Brigada! Yesss! :-) Another “True Fan” gift came from Dallas, [...]
Tags: · thanks
8) Only $2281.75 To Go: Would You Stand In The Gap?
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Would you consider being bold enough to step out and commit $100 to become one of the last-needed 11 “True Fans” of Brigada? Remember, leaders from that forward-thinking int’l church in the Middle East are prepared to *match* your gift, dollar-per-dollar. It’s easy. just click one of the pushbuttons at the right-hand top of the [...]
Tags: · Contribute, Donate
9) The Backpage: Do You, As A Missionary, Think About Retirement?
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Depending on your age, the assurance you have of future employment, your health and your country of origin, you just might. In my own informal surveys, I’ve discovered that — these days — essentially everybody is willing to consider retirement, assuming someone will help lead them down the road of that discussion. Again, depending on [...]
Tags: · BackPage, Member Care, Retired
10) Closing Stuff
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Tags: · Closing stuff

