Brigada

This innovative organization has need for more Opportunities of Service in the European Area. All areas are encouraged to apply for a volunteer to come over to help you with domestic and homeschooling activities. In the past 18 years, over 120 volunteers have served many missionary families around the world. Check them out at… http://www.missionnannys.org

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Have you heard about the Day Tripper? It’s an international medical and medical evacuation plan for short-term teams. With rates as low as 52 cents per day you can’t go wrong with this plan! PLUS when you purchase this plan from Insurance Services of America on their web site http://www.missionaryhealth.net/brigada.htm you will be helping to [...]

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The International Ministry Track at the Chalmers Center is designed to help you understand appropriate goals and strategies for conducting church-based economic development in poor communities within Africa, Asia and Latin America. It will benefit anyone preparing for Christian outreach and ministry among the poor, whether they plan to implement an economic development strategy or [...]

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ChartsBin offers online interactive world maps, each one offering statistics for a wide range of topics. These are very helpful, both for research, or for a presentation in a seminar. You can save any map as a complete web page, and it will work offline to demonstrate later. Check, for instance, web users, mobile phone [...]

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Join the FIGT global community for their annual conference March 4-6 at the Westchase Marriott in Houston, TX, USA (hotel rooms only $110/night single to quadruples until Feb 26th). FIGT is a non-profit, educational organization that was co-founded by a missionary who grew up around the globe, Ruth Van Reken. To help understand her own [...]

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Never Fear. Clover is here. Check ‘em out at… http://www.cloversites.com/f/friendsofbrigada See all the features they have now, as well as the new features they’ll have starting Apr. 28th in their “2.0″ service (which will be the same price, by the way; and current users will be upgraded automatically for free). http://www.cloversites.com/greenhouse-updates I personally have set [...]

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The folks at… http://www.wycliffeassociates.org.uk are multi-talented people. They’re effective book searchers, and have found hundreds of rare or hard to find books, as well as modern volumes. You just pay the cost of the books and delivery costs. Questions? Write them at… bookswa-ukorg  (bookswa-ukorg)  

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Maybe you’ve been there a hundred times. You had the whole Haiti thing down to a science. But you’re wondering, now that the earth shook, should you ask a set of different questions? You bet. Well now you have a script. Check it out at… http://www.cricon.org/tech_bulletin.htm These are the folks from Crisis Consulting Int’l. For [...]

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We give thanks to Mission Nannys, who sent $100 this past week to become a true friend of Brigada. Thanks Mission Nannys! Find them at… http://www.missionnannys.org Likewise, we owe a big thanks to Spokane, WA, home base for the Coalition on the Support of Indigenous Missions (COSIM), who also just sent in $100! We’re also [...]

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Here’s your chance: Help sponsor an issue of Brigada Today. Our budget for 2010 is exactly the same as it has been for the past two years: $17,120. The 2009 total was $14,224.38. Although we didn’t make budget, but we came very close. Can you help us hit it in 2010? If so, just click [...]

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We wrap up today our three-part series on Lausanne III in Cape town. Learn more about the upcoming Lausanne consultation in Cape Town at… http://www.lausanne.org/cape-town-2010 (By the way, if you’re from the USA, the delegate list is already set. Didn’t make the cut? Never fear. You can still participate via a “Globalink Site.” Emerald Hills [...]

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