Brigada

Experience “Mission-Him-Possible” Missions Conference. Come to be Informed, Inspired, Ignited and Get Involved in finishing the task of world evangelization.  The guest speaker will be Don Richardson, 1960′s missionary pioneer to the Stone Age Sawi tribe headhunter cannibals of Irian Jaya and bestselling author of “Peace Child”. The dates are Sunday, Sept. 25 – Weds, [...]

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micMAC Global Solutions provides culture and language acquisition training. They have also recently expanded into software outsourcing. They are based in Qingdao, China and have launched an internship program for people interested in learning Chinese and working in ESL training, marketing, finance or software development.  Find out more at:   http://www.micmacglobal.com   (And thanks to [...]

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Be sure to check this conference out soon because early registration and reduced fee end Sept. 15. Slated for Nov. 7-11 in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, this conference is designed to better equip missionaries to care for the relational, emotional, and spiritual needs of each other. It’s designed for member care workers, team leaders, and anyone [...]

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Twenty years ago, the walls came down and the doors opened in the former Soviet Union like never before in history.  Today, there are thousands of believers in Central Asia amongst Uzbeks, Tajiks, Kyrgyz, Kazakhs, etc.  In recent years, a consortium of people group partnerships, churches, agencies and national leaders launched NACAF to foster unity [...]

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Fairhaven Ministries is a pastor/missionary retreat center that serves missionary families from over 75 mission agencies with an affordable, quiet mountainside setting located in Blue Ridge Mountains of East Tennessee, USA. Individual chalets and cottages become places for rest and renewal; and optional biblical counseling is available. This non-profit ministry has 30 years of serving [...]

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  WEC International has launched a global prayer community,   http://www.globalprayer365.com   an online presence encouraging around-the-clock intercession for the nations. GlobalPrayer365.com connects people to pray in unity and passion for the nations by providing free prayer resource and tools. The site provides topics for prayer such as national leaders, conflicts around the world, poverty, [...]

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There is no plenary speaker, and no workshops (at least none that are planned beforehand, though certainly some spontaneous ones will develop throughout the day). According to some, getting energetic people together to dialogue energetically about all of our mutual passion and the Great Commission should, in and of itself, “send most of us into [...]

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From October 3 until November 4, 2011, in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Asia’s Center for TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) will be conducting an intensive, five-week course leading to 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, [...]

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Here’s a global research project that is seeking church-planting teams as a special focus for study. To be included, your team needs to be: * Experienced:  Teams that have been functioning for at least one year. * Missionary: Teams that are working in a culture other than their own, with plans to develop national leadership [...]

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…For those who help us pay the bills and inspire us to keep on pressing forward with Brigada. For example, this past week, we received a $100 encouragement gift from a Brigada participant in Vienna, Virginia, and another from CRAM Worldwide, on the web at…   http://www.cramwinc.org/   whose leaders have been hard at work [...]

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Hats off to GoogleApps for developing a great suite of online “software-as-a-service” applications. They emphasize speed, clarity, simplicity and effectiveness. And then, of all things, they give away their services to non-profits. At least they give them away to *some* non-profits. Unfortunately, if you’re a church or missions agency (and you’re willing to be honest [...]

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Ron Koteskey added three more chapters to “What Missionaries Ought to Know…” this summer, so the e-book now has 52 chapters. It is also now available for your E-reader in both MOBI (Kindle) and EPUB (Nook and others) formats.  If you have an old edition with less than 52 chapters or want an E-reader format, [...]

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Useful for member care, discipleship and personal growth, it contains biblical lessons learned in 30 years of outreach in a tough Musl*m context. The book, Knowing jesus is Enough for Joy, Period! includes chapters on spiritual warfare (a bit differently presented), 4 types of faith, transforming worship, confessing in layers, journaling, discerning motives, nurturing our [...]

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