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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 In this issue… 1) Even Jack Bauer Gets Involved 2) What Do Embassies Do? 3) Need Medical Info For Austere Environments? 4) 21St Century Global Christianity 5) New And Unique Church [...]

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Did you catch the premier of 24 tonight? What?!!! Not a 24 fan? That’s ok. There are many unreached people in the world. (I’m joking! Please don’t write me to say I’m taking away from the seriousness of the unreached! It was a joke! :-) ) Anyway, even Jack is getting involved in mission work! [...]

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A buddy of mine wrote this past week to ask, “What *do* embassies do? If the only answer is “notarize papers and renew passports” then my follow-up question is: Why does it take a building the size of a football field to notarize papers and renew passports?” Actually, I thought he had a pretty good [...]

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Now you can get it. An anonymous Brigada participant tipped us off to this off-the-beaten-path course in Lancaster, PA, Feb 7 and 8, 8:30am-4:30pm est each day. It’s designed by a retired Emergency Physician with 35 years of Trauma, EMS/ Rescue, and instructional experience. The methods and techniques taught are derived from over 10 years [...]

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Want to learn about the needs of the Christian community around the world? The Issachar Network is developing a framework to connect Christians across the Globe. This is being accomplished through sharing ministry resources, skills, and cultural knowledge between Evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox Christian congregations, ministries and their leaders. They need your help in describing [...]

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The Barnabas Factors: Eight Essential Characteristics of Church Planting Team Members was recently published by Missional Press. Author J. D. Payne, Director of the Church Planting Center at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, challenges missionaries across the globe to consider Barnabas as a model for healthy church planting teams. The Factors include: Walks with the [...]

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For the child in all of us, here are Bible stories the way you’ve always wanted them — with plenty of details, dialogue, and description. Veteran storyteller, Lauren E. Myers helps a new generation fall in love with Bible stories in today’s language that everyone can relate to, with High-Definition, picture-quality stories you’ll want to [...]

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North Point Ministries is launching a bold leadership training effort in January for leaders around the world who are interested in learning principles of “creating churches for people who don’t like church.”DRIVE-IN, or Drive International, is a series of live web events, premiering on January 21, 2009 at 9am EST, where leaders from all over [...]

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Advocates for the Mbalantu are thrilled. You see, for years, they’ve been praying for this time. In October, an association from Texas adopted the Mbalantu. The first group to visit and survey this area will arrive in Namibia in February. Pray for their safe travel. It is not a quick flight to Namibia and once [...]

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We’re grateful to the “True Fan” in Birmingham, AL who sent $100 this past week. He, in turn, was thankful for the Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship (PFF) and Perspectives. Learn more about PFF at http://www.pff.net/ and, of course, read about Perspectives at http://www.perspectives.org/ We’re also grateful for a $100-gift from “a friend in Savannah who realizes [...]

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All of a sudden, we only need 170 more “True Fans” to reach the 2009 budget. (A “True Fan” gift is one of $100 or more.) When we’re done with those 170, that’s it. Just click one of the pushbuttons at the right-hand top of the home page… or use the PayPal link on the [...]

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Last week’s “Back Page” editorial shared my experience with a megachurch in North Carolina. I mentioned that I was extremely “upbeat” about the future of missions, in view of that church’s enthusiasm and action. Following that editorial, we received this note from a missions minister at another megachurch, this one being in the Mid-south: “I [...]

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