Brigada

Is your organization experiencing rate increases on your short-term travel medical insurance? Do you want to help support Brigada? If so, be sure to contact Insurance Services of America. They are a Christian organization that specializes in helping individuals and groups find affordable health insurance options. They can put together a “tailor-made” plan to fit [...]

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Churches and individual Christians typically have faulty assumptions about the causes of poverty, resulting in the use of strategies that do considerable harm to poor people and themselves. When Helping Hurts provides foundational concepts, clearly articulated general principles and relevant applications. The result is an effective and holistic ministry to the poor, not a truncated [...]

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Check out “Change the World: Mission Songs for Children CD,” a fun resource your children will enjoy year after year! This dynamic CD features worship and camp songs for kids, such as “Send Me, Lord,” “Change the World,” and a contemporary version of “We’ve a Story to Tell.” To order, visit http://wmustore.com/product.asp?sku=W047103 or call 1-800-968-7301 [...]

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Some Brigada members previously participated in the missiological forums on the FamilyNet BBS network. These have now been moved to Yahoo Groups. MISSIOLOGICAL is a discussion list for teachers, practitioners, and students of missiology from all Christian perspectives. To learn more go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/missiological/ To subscribe, send an e-mail to and to contact Steve, the [...]

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MATS International has been providing for the transportation needs of Christian Ministries since 1977. Cars, trucks, vans, buses, bicycles, motorcycles, for domestic, field, retired, furlough, personal use. New or Used, most any brand, model, make, most any place! Their sole objective is to save you money when your need is for ministry. Find them on [...]

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Wycliffe’s Children’s Communications Team now offers two of its larger curricula translated into Spanish for free download. The Steps to Bible Translation series can be found at: http://www.wycliffe.org/Kids/FreeCurriculum/StepstoBibleTranslation.aspx [note that the "x" might wrap; it needs to be on the end of the asp] Just click on the word “español” to find some teaching tips [...]

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Now you can listen to an interview on “Third Culture Kids (2009)” on World Radio Switzerland. Tina Quick (International Family Transitions) and Michele O’Donnell (Member Care Associates) share their expertise on supporting third culture kids and internationally mobile families. This 60-minute radio interview was aired live on 11 February 2009. You can download it for [...]

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The Zwemer Center For Muslim Studies at Columbia International University in South Carolina offers courses to help you understand Islam and Muslims (credit/seminar). They are designed for field worker candidates, workers on home leave, professional tentmakers in an Islamic country, pastors serving where there are a growing number of Muslims, and students sensing God’s call [...]

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Did you know that Global Opportunities has launched a FREE new monthly eNewsletter simply called “TM Briefs”? This short publication will teach, inform, inspire, support, challenge, and equip you for tentmaking, and more broadly, for integrating work and faith in all your life. Subscribing is as easy as it is to unsubscribe. Check it out. [...]

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Christian magazine editors and writers are invited to attend a conference in Manila this fall featuring two intensive courses designed especially for them. Magazine Training International will offer a course on Editing the Magazine Sept. 29-Oct. 2, and a course on Writing Effective Magazine Articles Oct. 4-7. Two international teams comprised of three experienced magazine [...]

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Due to the global fiscal situation a team of tentmakers from a closed country had their vacations cancelled and are unable to attend. This means that although the course was already full, they now have a few more openings available. 2 weeks of learning about the essentials of ministry through tentmaking and business as mission [...]

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Hats off to Insurance Services of America (ISA) for pitching in $58.53, based on Brigada participants and their purchase of insurance. For complete details, rates and to apply for coverage online go to http://www.missionaryhealth.net/brigada Thanks, too, to English Bible Club of Istanbul, who sent $10 this past week. Finally, thanks to the William Carey Library, [...]

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Our queue is lots longer than the number of items we can publish weekly. We do eventually publish all items, regardless of sponsorship. However, those who pitch in to help cover Brigada’s expenses are treated with special dignity — because they’re helping pay the bills. We bump them directly to the head of the line. [...]

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