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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) Global (Sim Card) Cell Provider2) Learn Holistic Ministry3) Multilingual Mks4) Momentum Magazine Moves To Strategic Network5) Safe Water For Pennies6) M-Dat Partners With Askamissionary.Com7) Annual Internet Evangelism Focus [...]

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Here’s a great service for anyone wanting to keep in touch while traveling abroad. They provide a Global SIM card that can be used with any GSM Tri or Quad band phone to travel just about anywhere in the world. You will save as much as 90% or more on cellular calls while traveling abroad. [...]

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The Chalmers Center offers a series of two distance courses on conducting economic development ministry. The initial course is called Foundations and Principles of Holistic Ministry. It helps you understand appropriate goals and strategies for conducting Christian economic development in poor communities within North America, addresses questions related to poverty, pro-poses a Biblical framework for [...]

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I’ve got a great friend in North Africa who wrote, this past week, to say, “As missionaries my wife and I are not only trying to learn the three languages that surround us daily, we’re hoping our kids will, too. We recently found this website: http://www.multilingualchildren.org/and thought it might help others. At the same time [...]

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Have you noticed that Justin Long has moved his content from Momentum Magazine over to Strategic Network? (Thanks Wilma!) See the site at: http://www.strategicnetwork.org/ The model here seems to be that there is much free content, while other content is shared as “premium content,” available only after sponsoring Strategic Network for $20/year. If you have [...]

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Here’s absolute bacteria and virus protection in a light weight water purifier-filter. This product reportedly provides 5 gallons of safe water from any source in 42 minutes. Using new technology developed for kidney dialysis, these new .02 micron hollow fiber membrane purifiers give 100% protection against bacteria and viruses and they never need replacement! These [...]

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Mission Data International (M-DAT) entered into an agreement with John McVay of Tulsa, Oklahoma, that brings AskAMissionary.com into M-DAT’s family of websites. Work is underway to overhaul the AskAMissionary.com website, which boasts 400-plus answers from Christian missionaries to hundreds of questions about being a missionary. Users can submit questions or answers. M-DAT plans to maintain [...]

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Internet Evangelism Day is set for the last Sunday of April. This international web awareness day, for churches, missions, colleges or any Christian group, aims to demonstrate the potential of the Web for effective evangelism.Check the testimonies of people who found God online. Read the stories of a wide range of web evangelists – and [...]

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Working in partnership in a cross-cultural context can be quite a challenge. Often different leadership styles can cause misunderstanding and friction. Here’s a new book by Ralph Schubert that features a dialogue between Western and Tanzanian Christian leaders on their leadership styles and their impact on cross-cultural partnerships. Entitled, ” Leadership and Partnership. A dialogue [...]

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The 7th Annual North American Consultation for folks with an interest in contextual Hindu ministry will take place from April 18-20, 2009 in Pasadena, CA. For a complete brochure, email

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Grace International School is a dynamic school for 170 missionary and other expatriate children age 3-16 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. For the coming academic year 09/10 (starting in August) there are several vacancies for qualified teachers especially at high school level. A good salary and benefits package, including pleasant accommodation, health insurance, free annual air-fares home [...]

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The 2009 Kaz Consultation will be held April 24 & 25 at Christian Fellowship Church, Evansville, IN. Visit their website at http://www.KZCON2009.org to register or call 270.826.7236 for information. Organizers are encouraging those with expertise in Business As Mission in KAZ to be part of this consultation. They add, “Evansville is great in April!”

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The 10th annual Afghan Christian Calendar is available now. This year’s theme is “The Majesty of God (Azamat-e-Khoda).” All the beautiful calendar pictures and Bible verses proclaim the majesty and greatness of God. This is an eternal message of life and hope for a people who have experienced decades of war-torn tragedy. The calendar is [...]

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