Brigada

These weekends help prospective missionaries explore what it is like to be a missionary, discover whether a missionary or sender role is God’s fit, and connect with mission agencies. This is for college students, young adults, mid-lifers, baby boomers – anyone willing to explore becoming a missionary. Each retreat of 50 participants and 10 missionaries [...]

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Create International (a YWAM vision in Chiang Mai, Thailand) produces evangelistic, mobilization, and church-planting media resources for unreached peoples. They’re on the web at…. http://www.createthailand.com The School of Cartooning and Animation for Missions is a school designed to train missionary cartoonists. It’ll take place again in 2011.

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Have you ever visited… http://www.internationalbulletin.org/ If not, run, don’t walk, to check it out. All their back issues are there, completely free. Somebody over there is thinking *way* unselfishly. It starts in 1977 and continues through today, with each quarterly edition readily viewable!

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John is researching missionary activity in the Solomon Islands.  If you are aware of any missionary activity in the Solomons, would you share it with him? Click on comment below or by email:

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Emily wrote recently to familiarize us with this conference. “This is designed for those of us who work in missions home offices. This year, it’s in Rockville, VA (just outside Richmond) at an IMB base and is from December 1-3.  There are lots of breakout type sessions–6 of them in each area of Mobilization, HR, [...]

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Here’s a resource from a worker in Southeast Asia who has written a Bible storying resource that many find both unique and helpful for missionaries. Basically, it’s “a completely unique Bible storying set, designed to begin and end each story with Jesus. In the middle of each story there are relevant “flashbacks” to the Old [...]

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If not, you should! It has… * All-New, High-Contrast E-Ink Screen – 50% better contrast than any other e-reader * Visibility in Bright Sunlight – No glare * New and Improved Fonts – New crisper, darker fonts * New Sleek Design – 21% smaller body while keeping the same 6″ size reading area * 17% [...]

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Prayer Fellowship Intl. has published devotionals… 1. 31 Days of Meditation – Enjoy Him Forever, 72 pages. 2. No man spoke like this Man – His Words and Teachings, 112 pages. 3. 31 Days of Miracles – Enjoy His Deeds, 72 pages. Written and Compiled by a key leader of India Missions Assn. in Hyderabad [...]

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Here’s your chance. Jot a note in the ‘comment’ box following this item. Tell whether or not you like… *** Promotional items regarding upcoming conferences or classes *** Announcements about new books *** Mission opportunities *** Items about ‘cool tools’ (the latest gadgets for missionaries) *** Training items and upcoming conferences/classes *** The BackPage editorial [...]

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Thanks to Kingdom Come Training for sending a gift of $50 to empower Brigada onward. They do online instruction and coaching for fundraising and their students are averaging six months to achieve full funding. Find them on the web at… http://www.kingdomcometraining.com Thanks! Thanks, too, for the Pennsylvania participant who sent $10 just to say thanks [...]

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Want to lift up Brigada in the name of someone on the other side of the planet? Someone who can’t? Just click on one of the “Donor” links at the top of this page. Both are safe, the one with PayPal and the other with Authorize.net. Neither requires you to open an account with anyone [...]

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Have you seen Scoggins 7 phases? If not, it’s probably a great place to visit, if for no other reason that it might serve as an idea-starter for additional church planting phases. Check out Scoggins’ work at… http://www.churchplantingphases.com/ Just click on the first line, “Click here to download the current version (3.0).” Keep in mind, [...]

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