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If you haven’t heard of David Platt and/or his book “Radical: Taking Back your Faith From the American Dream,” you will soon. The book itself is a mobilizer’s dream, and is featured in the Nov/Dec issue of Mission Frontiers, now available on-line at http://MissionFrontiers.org Through a special arrangement with the publisher, this issue of Mission [...]

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Dropbox was mentioned on Brigada in 2010/09/05 under a submission about Virtual Filing Cabinet (PC only). Dropbox (Mac and PC) is indeed a great collaboration tool, but it is also a great free backup system for up to 2G+ of your data. Keep current projects in your private Dropbox folder, and every change you save [...]

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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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Back in the Sept. 26 edition, we featured an item that was supposed to be a  book about cross-cultural couples. However, the link apparently was garbled in the item. Today we’re publishing two items to make up for it. The first is a chapter from a larger book on marriage. This chapter, “I’m Marrying a [...]

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EWI is a 12-lesson course for people interested in learning about God’s heart for Muslims and about the history and culture of the Muslim world, presenting a fresh perspective on the Islamic faith to the body of Christ in the United States and internationally. Students work to understand Muslims from a variety of perspectives, wrestle [...]

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Are you familiar with these folks? Take a look… http://www.globalconnections.co.uk/ I’m thinking… is this not one of the most helpful websites, not only for recruits but also for member care practitioners, trainers, and orienteers of all kinds? Whoa. If more organizations opened up the store like these folks have, would we not have a *ton* [...]

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Just when you needed an idea for the name of your firstborn son, CNN comes through for you. See the article below, which reports that Mohammed is now the most popular name. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/10/28/uk.mohammed/index.html?hpt=T2 Tough luck for “Oliver,” which was the most popular name previously. According to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in [...]

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You’ll be a lot likely to know in advance if you visit… http://www.haswifi.com This site was written up recently in the New York Times by Nick Bilton: http://nyti.ms/9zxuOt (Hats off to the Times for giving us their true domain name, then a *short* URL — that breaks out to the longer article-name URL.) I thought [...]

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Yup. Score another for Lissa. (She noticed this while working in Uganda.) Learn the details at… http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/iphonefaq.html (Notice I refused to make another one of those now-trite jokes about “there’s an app for that.” How many times will we hear the joke, “If you’re feeling tired, there’s a nap for that.” Give me a break! [...]

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You’ve already heard about the fact that the government of China stepped in at the last minute, blocking many from leaving their country to attend the Lausanne III Congress in Cape Town. See the article at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/16/world/asia/16china.html At the main session on Monday evening, Doug Birdsall, the executive chairman of Lausanne, asked us to gesture [...]

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Brigada has now been read for over 4 months as an RSS feed on the main page of the Africa Network BFTF website http://bftfafricanetwork.ning.com by up to 1380 various types of ministers across Africa and interested missionaries in various other parts of the world. Africa Network BFTF (an arm of Beautiful Feet Task Force) is [...]

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Find it at… http://www.facebook.com/Brigada So far, some 32 friends have clicked “Like” but 346 have stopped by to view the page. Honest… the “Like” button doesn’t cost you anything. :-) But it does indeed bump up the page in search optimization significantly. Thanks!

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Is your spirit wondering what time zone your body is in these days? Have any idea what its cost you to go through what you’ve gone through? Barnabas International and ELIM Retreat Ministries will sponsor 8 low cost 6 day renewal retreats for global workers (adults only). The emphasis is on lots of open time, [...]

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