Brigada

Cloversites makes it so easy. Check them out at… http://www.cloversites.com/f/friendsofbrigada 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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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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