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Pioneering new ministry or seeking deeper insights into the culture where you live? Learn relationship-based research techniques used by short-term teams, church planters, strategists, and students around the world since 1988. Encounter Culture is a 10-week experiential training course developed by Caleb Resources using the book, “Exploring the Land.” A class begins September 15, 2009, [...]

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:-) One good friend of Brigada recently wrote, “Instead of going by the date of what issue it should be and trying to ‘catch up,’ it seems better to simply use the current date, whatever that is. It’s kind of like God’s grace. He doesn’t expect us to dig ourselves out of a hole, but [...]

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Kelly and Michèle O’Donnell are billing it as “Traveling Together as Learners-Practitioners.” This new Member Care site “helps to fill an important gap in the web world. It is especially oriented towards graduate students. But it is relevant for anyone who is interested/involved in member care and international work in the health care fields. The [...]

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Many nations are calling for English teachers. Is God calling YOU to answer that call? YWAM Guadalajara can equip you with the skills needed to effectively teach ESL /EFL. They will hold a 4 week TESOL course at their campus in Guadalajara, Mexico from Sept. 28 through Oct. 23, 2009. For more information, contact Nathan [...]

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The subtitle to this 2007 book by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson is “Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts.” I saw it in a bullet by Kelly and Michèle O’Donnell, who wrote, “This is an amazing book! It is practical, enjoyable, challenging, and full of research and insights. The authors do [...]

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Are you a mission organization seeking to recruit on college campuses? Southern Nazarene University’s Fall 2009 “mission week” (www.snu.edu/missions) will be September 28 to October 2. Thursday, Oct. 1, will be a “missions fair” day with organizations invited to set up a recruiting table in the university Commons (at no charge!).  For more info, contact [...]

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The Personal Learning Center International http://www.plc.edu offers Junior High, Senior High, Advanced Placement, and Junior College courses that lead to US accredited High School and Junior College degrees.  They are taught by US credentialed teachers; 75% of their teachers hold Ph.D.s in their areas of specialty.  Organizers say they are the least expensive ($225.00 per [...]

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If you send or receive multiple short-term mission personnel (teams or individuals), circle October 14-17 on your fall 2009 calendar. Your expertise is needed in Atlanta, GA (USA) at the networking, training and empowering conference of the Fellowship of Short-Term Mission Leaders. This four-day conference/retreat at the Lodge at Simpsonwood is a gathering of executive-level [...]

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Before the end of 2009, would you consider making a $100 pledge or gift to Brigada? If you’re not in a position to do, would you consider speaking to your church or agency about it? Just that one single 2009 gift for the year would undergird our entire ministry. Just click on one of the [...]

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Are you serving somewhere in a land where it’s difficult to “get away”? Maybe it’s a sensitive place… or maybe there just aren’t that many get-aways in general? Or maybe you’re feeling a bit ‘behind the 8-ball’, having to cover for someone else while they’re gone from the field? If this is you — have [...]

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Do we still call it a “carriage return” when the only carriages in town are the ones downtown that are taking young couples on carriage rides? Anyway, beginning with this edition of Brigada Today, we add a single carriage return after the two hyphens at the end of the title. This comes by popular request [...]

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Do you dream of establishing an ESL program as an outreach ministry in your location? A team of five teachers will come to help you establish such a program anywhere in the world. They will teach a twelve week ESL school for students who want to learn conversational English, and alongside the ESL school, two [...]

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