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If your job, visa, or sense of well-being depends on having this degree but you don’t want to leave your place of service, consider the online (100%) MA from Biola. Get the skills you need to teach with professionalism and integrity in as little as 10 hours a week. The degree is designed for teachers [...]

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Hats off to Catalyst Services for producing their new 3-ring notebook, “Your Focus on the World.” Learn more at… http://www.catalystservices.org/resources/what-is-focus-all-about.shtml Using this guide, you’ll be able to Launch/Join powerful, strategic global initiatives that will achieve exponentially more because they connect churches to expanding efforts around the world, avoid some costly mistakes—such as choosing the wrong [...]

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Depending on your interests, you just might possibly rank this as the most practical resource you’ve ever picked up out of Brigada. The World Evangelical Alliance website is currently offering about 30 missions books from their Resources page — apparently for free. Among them: To Valuable to Loose, Global missiology, Doing Member Care Well, Establishing [...]

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We’re constantly grateful to Kelly and Michele O’Donnell for the great resources they share with us regularly. This past week, they shared some resources on a very touchy subject — staying alive in dangerous places. Dangerous Mission is a special 28 minute BBC “Heart and Soul” documentary. It features interviews with mission workers whose lives [...]

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This book by Keith E. Webb examines the invisible spiritual reality behind the 17th century persecution of Christians and the subsequent spiritual strongholds that were established. These barriers are still effectively holding Japanese people in bondage. Learn how to minister to Japanese and how to pray more effectively for them. Brigada readers, if you enter [...]

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There are several. For example, you could try… http://www.globalissues.org for starters. See especially their page on global poverty at… http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats#fact2 Of course, that site is actually a compilation site, so if you want truly original citations, then take a queue from my son, who recommended, instead, that we try, for info on health indicators, http://www.who.int/research/en/ [...]

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Many teams have asked for a short-term team insurance plan that also includes Trip Cancellation coverage.  GNI now offers a new team plan that has rates as low as $1.01 cents a day for travelers age 30-79 and rates of $0.93 for ages 0-29.  The plan provides optional Trip Cancellation.  This standard short-term team plan [...]

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Mark your calendars and plan your travel. The 4th Annual “Reaching Japanese for Christ” Conference in Southern California is this September 25, 2010. The truth is, few Japanese know Jesus as their personal Savior. The Reaching Japanese for Christ (RJC) Conference will help you share with the Japanese people living near you. This is a [...]

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Here’s a free, verse by verse, online Bible study library in 24 languages. The website has video, audio & written commentaries as well as a Seminar on Bible Interpretation. They are also willing to mail a cd-rom & DVD free worldwide to all who request a copy online!! Please look at http://www.freebiblecommentary.org And don’t forget [...]

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Thanks to Tony for drawing our attention to the Lausanne World Pulse June-July edition, which contains six articles relating to technology and missions: http://www.lausanneworldpulse.com/06-2010

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Perhaps you’ve heard about the new book, “Netcasters: Using the Internet to Make Fishers of Men,” by Craig von Buseck. It is the first overview of digital evangelism for some years. Catch the Internet Evangelism Day review of the book at … http://www.internetevangelismday.com/netcasters

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In our continuing exploration, Tony passed along some new ways that missions can use Facebook and Twitter in evangelism. See… http://www.internetevangelismday.com/facebook-missions.php and http://www.internetevangelismday.com/twitter

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Thanks to the Insurance Services of America (ISA) for sending $49.07, representing trips by folks like Jessica, Shane, Wade, Katherine, Mike, Robert, Stephen, Peter, Ryan, Roger, Carter, Chelsea, Robert, Jonathan, and Audrey. The cool thing about using ISA for trip interruption insurance is — you get great service, easy claims if needed, *and* it costs [...]

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