Brigada

Our apologies to those who disliked the catch-up editions last week. (Catch-up can be messy if you get it on your shirt?) Three Brigada participants wrote, urging us to change our approach of writing mini-editions separately. I’ve always heard that if one person complains, there are usually 999 who feel the same way, but for [...]

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We all know, intuitively, that those who choose to marry across cultures (husband from one country or culture, wife from a different one) face extra challenges. (It’s hard enough for a couple when both spouses are from the *same* background, for Pete’s sake.) Well here are a few books that can help them sort it [...]

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How will you plug in? Lausanne starts Sunday afternoon, Oct. 17. Here are some ways and means to capture all the sessions, in one format or another: GlobaLink locations (live & in person at 600 remote sites): http://www.lausanne.org/cape-town-2010/globalink.html Online Participation (just you and your web browser at home or office): http://www.lausanne.org/cape-town-2010/participate-online.html RSS of CT2010 news [...]

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If you’ve never had an occasion to visit Barnabas Int’l, it’s a great starting point for member care ministry for missionaries. Member Care specialists affiliate with Barnabas and become, together, a pool of special speakers for member care retreats and special needs. Barnabas can also help with retreats for college-aged MK’s (‘missionary kids’) as they [...]

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About once a year, our office takes another look at all the possible insurance options for our sending agency. It’s always a bit frustrating trying to get all our guys and gals on board. Like many, I suppose, our workers are raising for the organization equivalent to their own salaries, and our workers sometimes have [...]

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Maybe you can’t give to Brigada personally; but do you know someone who can? A church missions committee, or a person whom God has blessed? If you can think of someone and they agree, they can just click on one of the links at the top of this page. Both links (PayPal and Authoized . [...]

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Have you ever tried to analyze what constitutes “the missionary call?” What I mean is — why would a reasonable man or woman decide to leave home, family and friends for the sake of people he or she doesn’t even know yet? During college, I remember learning that a missionary call is when “one sees [...]

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At least that’s what one Brigada user in North Africa reports. He uses the duplicate solution provided at… http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/#duplicates_excluding Evidently, if you’ve got double-vision when looking at all your contacts (because your mobile phone crossed wires with your laptop), this little add-on is all you need. Great, simple, fast, elegant.

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Now you can. As long as you’ve got Android or iPhone, that is. And Tango. http://www.tango.me/ This came from active Brigada participant, Caleb. They’ve apparently found a way to squeeze a Skype-like video call into an iPhone or Android smartphone. Alas, I’ll never know (I’m on Windows Mobile). The launch was evidently so successful, within [...]

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Now you can help overcome spiritual injustice and reach neglected rural Japan, starting with prayer. 127 million Japanese form the second largest UPG in the world with 1 in 100 Christian. 15 million of them are in Japan’s 1800 unchurched rural areas (URAs) where only about 1 in 1000 are Christian. Though over 1000 missionaries [...]

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That’s right: did you know there are 10,000 subscribers to Brigada? And to date, since our founding in 1995, we’ve never signed up anyone else. (Every one of those 10,000 subscribed on his or her own.) So your gift is multiplied many times over when you just click on one of the “Donor” links at [...]

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If you were present in either the 1974 or the 1989 congresses, please take a moment, think back, and tell us your greatest memories of Lausanne. This will be a small group, I bet. 1989 was 20 years ago.  Brigada wasn’t even invented! Somehow, I managed to land a spot in Manila. Does anyone else [...]

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Are you a Facebooker? If so, would you go to the Brigada page on Facebook and click “Like” please? If so, it might help us generate some new Brigada readers. Either way, it won’t cost you a peso. Just browse here: http://www.facebook.com/brigada And click “Like.” Thanks!

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