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Why did 12 lay-leaders from one church drive over 9 hours to attend this seminar in Virginia? Why did 200 leaders in Mexico City and 150 in Hong Kong attend this seminar?  The answer to why people come is that the Leading A World Missions Church (LAWMC) seminar  is designed  to help the local church [...]

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Check out these devotional journals written especially for people on short-term mission trips: *** 30 day Helping Hands–Healing Hearts (3 part combo book) especially for medical personnel *** 28 day Live in The Light (3 part combo book) *** 14 day Live in The Light (On-Field only) *** 7 day Pre-Field Preparation (Book 2) follow [...]

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Aquaculture International, Inc. will be taking teams of youth and leaders to Africa and South America this summer. Those who stay all summer will have all expenses paid. They will be building places to grow fish, vegetables, greens and more in a power grid free system at orphanages. Look at the website below for the [...]

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The dates are October 3-November 4. The place is Asia’s Center for TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). The outcome is a TESOL certificate. (This certificate is supported by Cornerstone University of Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.) For the first three weeks the classes are Monday-Friday, 8-4.  For the last two weeks, the classes [...]

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If you’ve made the jump to iPhone or Android (I’m still fighting it :-) ), check out this expense tracker discovered by Brigada’s Uganda Correspondent, Lissa. :-)   http://toshl.com/   Lissa writes, “I’ve been writing my expenses in a little notebook I carry around in my purse with me everywhere, and it gets pretty worn [...]

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Teen Missions is among the pioneers behind the concept of providing a short term missions trip experience for teens. The ministry had confidence that as young people saw the mission field first-hand, God would call many to a life dedicated to world evangelization.  The first team went out in 1971 and since that time over [...]

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You know, one of the best services for tracking flights *has* to be   http://www.flightaware.com   See the logged flight path, minutes until landing, plus lots of other resources (especially for pilots).

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Thanks to our Uganda desk (Lissa) for originally catching the article at…   http://nyti.ms/fj0KZE   which explains the New York Time’s new approach to funding. Bottom line: There’s no more free lunch.

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Thanks to a great friend working in North Africa for tipping us off about an online service which checks the security of your email server. Just browse to…   http://ismymailsecure.com/   Enter your email address (or, if you don’t trust them, enter something random then the “at” sign and domain, like this:   testmydomaincom   [...]

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Literally. Thanks to our I.T. guy, Greg, for point us to this article:   http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/16/world-lens-translates-words-inside-of-images-yes-really/   (That link might wrap. If so, just navigate to this item on the web, using the link below, and click on the link to the techcrunch story there.)   Basically, the story reports an iPod app that translates text [...]

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We appreciate the Brigada participants in Tigard, OR, and Wilmore, KY, for sending $50 and $30, respectively, to Brigada this past week. Thanks, too, for the $100 gift from workers in a sensitive country, who wrote, “We’ve received Brigada for a few years now and have always been blessed by one or more of the [...]

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How do *you* define impoverished? In their discussion on the definition of poverty in the Global South in “When Helping Hurts,” Fikkert and Corbett write (pages 51 and following), “While poor people mention having a lack of material things, they tend to descri8be their condition in far more psychological and social terms than our North [...]

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Greg just accepted an assignment to teach world religions at a local university and is gathering resources. He would like to hear about favorite films, textbooks, simulations, etc. He plans to cover primal religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Islam. Obviously he cannot cover any religion in depth, so he is looking for overview type resources. [...]

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