Brigada

Avid Brigada participants will remember our review of, “When Helping Hurts,” http://www.brigada.org/2009/06/07_2121 Along similar lines, Brigada participant, Phoebe, recently shared with us another book, Banker to the Poor. See more information at… http://www.bankertothepoor.com/bankertothepoor/ The author, Muhammad Yunus, himself a Bengali, was a Fulbright scholar and earned the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. I first read about [...]

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It’s not too late to get travel medical, evacuation and trip insurance for summer and fall short-term mission trips! Coverage is available for any international need, whether for individual short-term trips, career missionaries, trip cancellation, short-term teams and term life insurance. For coverage details, rates and the online applications, of the Brigada sponsored plans, go [...]

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That’s the upshot of Tom’s project at: http://www.arabbible.com/ Fascinating concept. It contains, for example, complete grammatical explanations of every single word in the Arabic New Testament. Just click on a word, and you’ll find a wealth of information, containing not only a dictionary entry for that word, but also its contextual meaning and full grammatical [...]

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CHE has a new website, http://www.chenetwork.org The website is designed as a place for practitioners to connect, access resources, and build their ministries. More than 250 organizations are now using CHE in 81 countries.

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GRN’s “Saber”, a hand wind MP3 player designed for oral peoples with limited access to power, won the International Conference on Computing and Mission’s (ICCM) Technology for Missions (TFM) contest. The GRN “Saber” was demonstrated to have a high impact in reaching the unreached people in the world who are oral communicators. Quality was demonstrated [...]

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