Brigada

Empowerment, transformation, and innovation require Spirit-led communication skills. Join more than 300 leaders who have taken the 60-hour Core Coaching Skills Certificate Program, a unique training for mission leaders integrating Biblical values, professional coaching skills, and cross-cultural ministry. Learn in-person and by telephone. Programs in 2010: Seattle January 11-15; Singapore April 5-10; Kunming, China April [...]

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Missionary Kids (MK’s) have unique needs and abilities. They pick up the best characteristics from each of the cultures in which they’ve lived, giving them stellar potential, if it’s fully utilized. Unfortunately, sometimes it’s not totally understood. Enter mResourcesConnection. They have two MK Re-entry Retreats this upcoming year.  Learn more about the org at… http://www.mresourcesconnection.org [...]

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Much of the world’s population cannot personally read the Word of God because they are illiterate. Compare the illiteracy rate for the countries you love at… http://www.mapsofworld.com/thematic-maps/world-illiteracy-map.htm Learn how to open people’s eyes to the words so that they may read The Word by attending the International Literacy Training Institute in Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 13 [...]

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All you need to know is… http://livestream.com They’ll take care of everything else. OK — you have to get a webcam working with your laptop. But beyond that, the rest is easy. Think about it: Your next class, church service, organization-wide meeting, training session, etc., streamed live to the web for your entire organization/church/set of [...]

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Just visit http://www.carbonite.com You won’t have to buy any cartridges, memory devices or tape drives. Just kick things off with Carbonite.com and, bam, you’re backin’ up like never before. What’s more, you’ll be able to restore from anywhere in the world, any time you want.

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Try http://www.tripit.com List your airfare, housing info., rental car, and more… and let TripIt do the heavy lifting for you to keep everything streamlined and on the same page — all for free. You can always do TripIt Pro for $69/year, regardless of whether you’re in or out of the USA. The ‘pro’ version adds [...]

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OK… I still have to get past the cute name for this software… http://www.cutepdf.com/ If I can just get past the cute name, it’s actually a very strong contender for best free PDF creator in the business.

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I’m not talking about a person. It’s software. http://www.dklevine.com/general/software/tc1000/jarnal.htm If you have a tablet computer or a computer with a touch-sensitive screen, this program will truly shine. But either way, Jarnal will be fun, especially if you’re the least bit graphically inclined. What’s more, you can always pick up a slate input device to make [...]

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Just pick up a password manager. Try Keepass… http://keepass.info/features.html or Roboform http://www.roboform.com/ They’re a couple of the best… and both have free versions. Both encrypt all your passwords into a secure database, and — shazam — all you have to remember is one *single* password to get access to all your others. Both can even [...]

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$25 from International Missionary Training Network. Catch their resources at http://theimtn.org/resources/ That $25 became $50, due to a matching gift from the UAE. In fact, all these gifts doubled too: $25 from a friend from Kansas City, MO. $100 from Keith, the head of Creative Results Management, which provides coaching training for non-profit organizations working [...]

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There’s still $220 worth of potential for matching gifts. Would you be willing to help bring those about? This also brings our 2009 total to $8203.57, leaving $ $8,916.43 left to go to fuel the Brigada fire. That means all we need are 89 “True Friends of Brigada…” Would you or your church be one [...]

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Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the planet. Don’t get me wrong; I don’t recall ever having voted for Al Gore. And no one in my family is a member of Greenpeace. But I believe there is a rising consciousness around the globe… a conscience-response related to the undeniable fact that, if we truly [...]

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