Brigada

Do you or anyone you know want to improve in English? Youth With A Mission in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA is offering a 12 week course from March 8 to May 28, 2010. Classroom teaching plus immersion in an English speaking international community contribute to a rich learning environment. Find details and application forms at http://www.ywampa.org [...]

[Read more →]

Check it out. Just browse to… http://www.greatercalling.org/ Basically, at the end of a presentation, you could ask listeners to take out their cell phones and send a text to a certain number. That action would then prompt a $5 add-on charge to their next cell phone bill. Similarly, your account with Greater Calling would show [...]

[Read more →]

Were you already thinking of signing up for Joshua Project’s “Unreached People of the Day?” If so, might as well use the link at… http://prayfortheunreached.com/ For every new signer-upper, the site is giving a dollar to Joshua Project (up to $514).

[Read more →]

Long-time Brigada friend, Barb, is asking us for our take on email etiquette… or, one might say, “netiquette.” Where are your best sources? What are your pet peeves? What are your best ideas? I found a really helpful list at… http://email.about.com/od/emailnetiquette/tp/core_netiquette.htm The guy gives 26 important rules… like… “Don’t default to Reply All”, “Keep emails [...]

[Read more →]

Barnabas International and ELIM Retreat Ministries will sponsor 8 retreats for global workers returning to the States in 2010. Their purpose is spiritual and reentry debriefing, personal encouragement and renewal provided by safe people in beautiful environments. To me, these are really cool. You get a chance to kick back, talk about your experiences with [...]

[Read more →]

Crisis Consulting International is offering two training seminars in April to assist those in the missions community with security and training needs. Crisis Management Seminar – April 14-16, 2010 – A three-day program that instructs on risk assessment, current threats and trends, policies, contingency planning and crisis management; includes the EZRA risk assessment instruments. Field [...]

[Read more →]

Our corporate Organizational Advancement guy shared this link with me last week on the eve of our annual planning retreat. Thanks a lot, Bob. Blow me away with this futuristic video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY But he was right to do so. His point? Those who fail to innovate will likely fail — period. He makes a good [...]

[Read more →]

We’re grateful this week for Carter (of Crossroads) and Michael (of Suzhou), both of whom signed up recently for Cloversites… which resulted in thank-you gifts from Cloversites to Brigada… to the tune of $100 each! Can you believe it? These two new friends become two new True Friends of Brigada, and they get a website [...]

[Read more →]

Also giving this past week were… An anonymous missionary couple laboring in Latin America… $25 (“You have blessed us…”), Two workers from Michigan ($50) and the organization they lead ($50). A church pastor in Pennsylvania sent $50. A pastor from Tennessee sent $200. Amazing. How can we say thanks enough? A ministry in Australia, “Create [...]

[Read more →]

The gifts described above bring out total 2009 giving to 10,549.38. To reach our goal of 17120, we still need to pray up 65700.62. That would be possible if 66 people or groups chipped in $100 each. *Or*, like last year, one single entity could volunteer $5000 — and we’d be nearly there. Unfortunately, there [...]

[Read more →]

That’s what happened to my laptop last week: The dreaded “Fan Error.” Just because of the apparent weariness of one $5 fan part, the entire Thinkpad grinds to a screeching halt. Fortunately, I had been using a simple tool, described earlier here in Brigada, entitled, Syncback. See the freeware version at… http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html Or compare features [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]