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Learn more about the Beauty of Partnership. Browse to… http://beautyofpartnership.org/endorsements And although we didn’t ask them to do so, if you order, check out the drop-down at their purchase site… http://beautyofpartnership.org/purchase You can make note that you heard about it on Brigada (and the author says he’ll send a 10% gift to Brigada in your [...]

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Kingdom Expansion 101 is a convenient and inexpensive six-week online course about world evangelization. This fresh and comprehensive class provides an overview of global outreach and how churches and individuals are involved in the Great Commission. Missions team members, short-termers and church leaders have commented on the quality of the variety of articles, videos, PowerPoint [...]

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The early church spread God’s Word quickly despite political persecution and cultural resistance simply by telling everyone stories from the Bible!  Experience 5 days of Bible storying in beautiful Orlando, Florida with Campus Crusade for Christ and then you’ll be able to train others. This trainers training October 25 – 29, 2010 is for individuals, [...]

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This September is the 7th International Congress on Language Learning. This triennial event exists to champion the cause of language and culture learning by putting on-field language teachers, language school administrators and language supervisors in touch with each other and with academicians, pre-field trainers, personnel directors and agency executives — all committed to enhancing the [...]

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A new book, “Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts,” prepared for the 2010 Lausanne meeting in Cape Town, SA on Oct. 17-25, has gone to the printers! To download a portion of the book, go to: http://www.heartstories.info The excerpts have been received very well and organizations are asking for training just after reading a couple [...]

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[Edited post-publication: Added link] This short booklet, “Managing Stress on the Field,” gives a great overview of stress for field workers. It was published initially in 2001 by the International Federation of the Red Cross/Red Crescent. It’s available for free and online, also in French and Spanish, and includes many useful tips along with a [...]

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If so, better check into “Totalization agreements,” using the Social Security’s new online form at…. https://secure.ssa.gov/apps6z/coc_db/allforms.html to find out if any of your workers need to give attention to these relatively new USA laws relating to retaining one’s Social Security benefits. Only workers from certain countries are impacted.

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This free 10-page article by Kelly and Michele O’Donnell will be quite helpful to Member Care folks, as well as administrative overseers in mission agencies and missions-focused churches. As usual, the O’Donnells have found a way to marry the “state of the art” in pastoral care with the best of the Bible. See the entire [...]

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Kelly and Michele O’Donnell also recently shared with us a 30-item assessment tool originally developed by Dr. Beth Stamm. The latest version is in eight languages and is available online for free. It looks at two broad areas in one’s work: compassion satisfaction (positive: the pleasure you derive from being able to do your work [...]

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Thanks to those who give to make Brigada work! We appreciate the $25 from Bruce and $40 from Brian (who wrote, “Keep up the good work! Your information and resources helped me many times in my work as a missionary.”). We’re grateful to these two — and may their tribe increase! :-)

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Got a loved one with a birthday or anniversary coming up soon? Can’t think of the right gift? Tired of those plastic gift cards? Give the gift that keeps on giving. Just click on one of the “Donor” links at the top of this page. Both are safe, the one with PayPal and the other [...]

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Earlier this week, I had to leave a meeting early. After I left, I understand there was a discussion about the relevancy of unreached people group thinking. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to participate in the discussion. Here’s my chance to make up time. :-) Is your agency or church still concerned with unreached peoples, or [...]

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Got graphics? Wish you did? Either way, it’s worth a visit to Create International’s website at… http://www.createthailand.com They’re based in Chiang Mai and are a ministry of YWAM that produces evangelistic, mobilization, and church-planting media resources for unreached peoples. Each summer, they run a School of Cartooning and Animation for Missions to train missionary cartoonists. [...]

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