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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) Another Look At Polygamy2) Tune In To The Bloggers Among Us3) The Kindle 2: What’s In *Yourrrrrrr* Library?4) Learn How To Manage Crises And Field Security 5) Efl [...]

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Back in 2007 (Nov. 25th edition), we looked at Polygamy. The item was entitled, “WHAT DO YOU THINK OF POLYGAMY?” and the text of the item went, “OK… remember my two sons? They’re at it again. Today at lunch they started asking me about polygamy. Well I knew to tell them that elders and deacons [...]

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Remember that discussion on blogging (Feb. 1, 2009, “For the Bloggers among us”) ? It’s turned into quite a stream of responses — from samples of great blogs to instructions on how to do it. Check it out at: http://www.brigada.org/2009/02/2.html Got an additional comment? You can even log on to share in total confidence, anonymously. [...]

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Have you been following the development of the Kindle 2? Available from Amazon.com, just think of it as one of those electronic clipboards that Captain Picard used to access on Star Trek. It’s basically a dedicated reading machine. It’s as thin as a magazine, 10 ounces light, doesn’t require a computer, has a long-lasting battery [...]

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CCI is offering two training seminars in April to assist those in the missions community with security and training needs. One, their Crisis Management Seminar, takes place April 23-25. It’s a three-day program that instructs on risk assessment, current threats and trends, policies, contingency planning and crisis management; it includes the EZRA risk assessment instruments. [...]

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These workbooks provide contextualized passages for students involved in biblical studies who want to improve their proficiency in reading English. Vocabulary Building for Biblical Studies is an intermediate level workbook of 15 contextualized chapters centering on biblical and Christian themes. Each unit includes a passage of 1000 words and exercises that aid the students in [...]

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Looking for a solution for carrying all those assorted items once you reach your destination? Try the $10 Kiva backpack at… http://www.amazon.com/Kiva-Key-Chain-Pack/dp/B000BNGHJO My 19-year-old says it folds up really small… and it would be very handy to throw into your luggage… then deploy upon arrival. Can’t beat the price.

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One of our member care volunteer families has just purchased a special airfare from Raptim that lets you pick virtually any airports around the world so long as the next destination keeps traveling in the same direction. So our new volunteers are starting in Indy, stopping at 8 different int’l airports. Their itinerary includes some [...]

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These are ‘easy’ and ‘very easy’ languages from every continent – including Russian, Chinese, Farsi, Urdu, Seraiki, Swahili, Amharic, Polish, Indonesian, Portuguese, French and Hebrew. The target is 70 projects online by Easter Sunday, and 100 by the end of 2009. There is also now in place a growing team of Advanced Checkers to raise [...]

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If you’re from the USA and you run on a network that isn’t global (like — Sprint maybe?), you’ll likely need to pick up a different phone for travel. Why buy when you can rent one for just the handful of days you’ll be gone? What’s your favorite vendor? Here’s one such vendor that Brigada [...]

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…for “Caring for Others,” on the web at… http://www.caringforothers.org/ for their awesome gift of $100. Thanks to John and the entire Caring for Others staff. Thanks, too, to Insurance Services of America, on the web at… http://www.missionaryhealth.net/brigada.htm for a fantastic gift of $318.09 for the past month. Thanks to all those who purchased travel interruption [...]

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With CNN writing a more liberal view on the web these days, who will be a voice for the truth? You can help Brigada do exactly that. Just click on one of the “Donor” links above. Both are safe, the one with PayPal and the other with one of the most well-known “real” online merchants [...]

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I read with interest the CNN story about the survey conducted (for the 3rd time in as many decades) regarding religious claimants in the USA. The title, “America becoming less Christian, survey finds,” is one of those comments that should give us pause. That all depends — on “which Christian” one is describing. While it’s [...]

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