Brigada

Cloversites makes it so easy. Check them out at…
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See their feature list at…
http://www.cloversites.com/promo/Clover%20Features.pdf
You can post audio or video at the drop of a hat — imagine your workshops, classes, sermons, and presentations, all instantly available to your organization or church members. You’ll be able to start editing your website in minutes. Their customer service seems [...]

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Good Neighbor Insurance has provided an extensive library of articles on understanding international health insurance, a large glossary of insurance terms and an excellent section on medical advice for the overseas traveler. Also GNI provides a quarterly E-Bulletin, “International Insurance Insights” that goes out to 13,000 recipients. GNI’s website includes travel and career overseas insurance [...]

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For those from the USA, have you been following the treaties on “Totalization” between the USA and certain foreign governments? They basically provide an infrastructure that gets you off the hook for having to double-pay your Social Security premiums, so on the whole, they’re probably a great idea. However, the trouble is, some 15 out [...]

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Do you regularly work with kids? Are you hoping to cast before them a global worldview? Would you like for them to gain a vision for reaching lost kids (and adults) everywhere? Check out the special children’s version of Perspectives at…
http://store.calebresources.org/ProductDetail.jsp?LISTID=80000445-1186515446
(Note: This URL will wrap. If you have trouble accessing it, just log on at
http://www.brigada.org
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These workbooks are designed for learners of English who need to improve their reading comprehension in order to perform effectively in Bible colleges and seminaries that require extensive reading in English. The intention is not to teach English, but to supplement classroom instruction with biblically contextualized passages and exercises. Vocabulary Building for Biblical Studies is [...]

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6 openings remain for Caring for Others’ next Personal Growth Conference for Missionaries. But better act fast: It’s slated for November 1-6th. Imagine a conference where attendees actually confer with each other. No big-name speakers.  Just people growing as they reflect on where God has taken them and where he wants them to go. Just [...]

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TESOL is a course for aspiring ESL teachers.  Many English speakers working cross-culturally find that teaching ESL can provide a wonderful door of opportunity, but speaking English in itself does not make them skillful teachers. TESOL is a four-week course designed to develop the necessary teaching skills. This TESOL course will be offered in Indonesia [...]

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Would you like to work among unreached people groups for a year but don’t have much of any financial support – No Problem! Don’t have specialized training – No Problem! Don’t know how to get permission to stay in a restricted nation for a year – No Problem! Mark and Janet just returned from an [...]

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Want to help encourage the dream of Brigada… the dream of working together to finish the Task of reaching the unreached? Just click on one of the “Donor” links at the top of this page. Both are safe, the one with PayPal and the other with one of the most well-known “real” online merchants on [...]

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This past Wednesday in our regular weekly Bible study at Team Expansion’s Int’l Services office, we tackled the challenge of trying to document some of the typical roots of team conflict. It was interesting enough to me that I thought we should expand on our discussion here in the “BackPage” of Brigada. As our springboard, [...]

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Disclaimer — We can’t screen ‘em all. Please forgive us if a particular site contains offensive information — or no information at all! We try to visit them in advance, but often write “on the road” so we simply can’t preview everything.
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Is your organization experiencing health insurance rate increases? 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 your group’s needs. Their group [...]

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For those ministering to the poor in Africa, Asia and Latin America, the Chalmers Center offers a series of three distance courses on conducting Christian microfinance and microenterprise development. The initial course is Foundations and Principles of Holistic Ministry. The course is designed to help you understand appropriate goals and strategies for conducting church-based economic [...]

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Not the Crosby kind. We’re talking about http://www.bing.com It’s fast. It seems equally effective. And some say it will save you as much as 30% of the time used by other search engines (because it takes, on average, 30% fewer letters to type its name into the box than certain other engines). :-) No but [...]

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In the old days, you could use a hyphen… but apparently now, to subscribe to Google groups, you have to use a *plus* sign. So from now on, to subscribe to Brigada, it has to look like this:

Please make a note of it. :-)

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The Perspectives on the World Christian Movement course is a great way to help you identify your place in extending God’s kingdom in the nations and receive missions education credit at the same time.  Perspectives covers the biblical, historical, cultural, and strategic basis for missions. ICM (International Christian Ministries) offers the course on-line for certificate, [...]

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French inventor Marc Parent has made the dream a reality. His company, Eolewater, located in Sainte Tulle in the high French Alps, has made a prototype that produces 70 to 200 liters of fresh water a day… from the air! The higher the “eolienne”, or wind turbine, the more water it can grab.
A 50-meter mast [...]

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The good thing is … Dan and company have not a shred of defensive attitude. Quite the contrary. They beg for correction. Log on at…
http://www.joshuaproject.net
to learn more about unreached people. And if you do a vision trip, prayer journey, or a full-time overseas experience and you hear of errors, please don’t just sit back and [...]

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Because it portrays a story in one man’s childhood, it really isn’t showing much age, even though it’s been around for awhile. At 17 minutes, it’s a bit on the long side, but it’s also extremely engaging. It’s the true story from the early childhood experience of a Campus Crusade Student Venture director.
It’s a powerful [...]

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Want to help encourage the dream of Brigada… the dream of working together to finish the Task of reaching the unreached Just click on one of the “Donor” links at the top of this page. Both are safe, the one with PayPal and the other with one of the most well-known “real” online merchants on [...]

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Is it true? The word on the street (or should I say, ‘on the trail?’) is that these 4-ton beasts run about 30-40 miles per hour… but they can’t see past 90 feet in front of them. Talk about overdriving one’s headlights. So basically, any time they smell or hear something new, they charge at [...]

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Disclaimer — We can’t screen ‘em all. Please forgive us if a particular site contains offensive information — or no information at all! We try to visit them in advance, but often write “on the road” so we simply can’t preview everything.
Please Don’t Subscribe us to your List — Sorry — nothing personal –but we’re [...]

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