Brigada

Might sound like a strange question to some, but to others, you know exactly what I mean. At any one time, I have about 100 things on my list of things to do. Trying to figure out which one to do next (or which 3 to do at the same time) is a constant challenge. [...]

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Here’s a new missions book by mediastrategist Dan Henrich: Evangelism in the Digital Age: Media Case Studies (Volume 1). It gives a series of case study reports on various film, radio, web and mobile phone initiatives in Africa, S America and Asia in the last few years. A sample chapter is online in PDF format. [...]

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Preparing Leaders for Prayer Days and Short Retreats will be held at the White Oak Conference Center near Winnsboro, SC (close to Charlotte, NC, USA) in October, 2012. The Full Session will be October 3-12, and the Short Session October 3-8. Participants will experience a number of prayer and reflection topics, as well as work [...]

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Ready to make a global impact? Did you know you can make a difference in the injustices of poverty, human trafficking and unavailable education in the nations? Youth With A Mission in Salem, Oregon, USA is offering a TESOL course from March 26 to April 20, 2012 in effective teaching techniques. In four weeks you [...]

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Anda Leadership needs your help. They’re finding quite a bit of information on emerging markets, multinational corporations, etc. However, they’ve had a harder time finding good statistical information about small businesses and entrepreneurial organizations in emerging markets. They’d like to be able to project income and then report on results vs. current levels of production [...]

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The Short-Term Mission Leaders’ Conference (STMLC) is an annual training event open to churches, schools, agencies & individuals. It is designed to impact team members, leaders, and those who train, organize, or supervise Christian short-term mission trips as well as those who receive them. If you want to learn to lead short-term mission teams with [...]

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This year’s conference will take place at Northshore Baptist Church, Bothell, Washington, February 16-18, 2012. Besides helpful seminars on ministering to Japanese, there will be an emphasis on the situation, needs and opportunities for church planting in the devastated Tohoku area. Rev. Akira Sato, Rick Chuman and Jonathan Wilson will be among the speakers. For [...]

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Asia’s Center for TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) conducts intensive, five-week courses leading to a TESOL certificate. They have a course coming up June 4-July 6, 2012.  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 [...]

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The Humanitarian Assistance Network for Disaster (HAND) is hosting a “Global Changing Challenges conference” April 3-4. It’s a progression of concepts discussed at the Hong Kong Starfish Community Expo that was held in October.  It seeks the spread of ideas, followed by communities actively engaging together in community development and disaster response — which is [...]

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Want to learn more about “Work as Worship” (some would call it Business as Mission or BAM)? What could be better than a top-25 list of books about the subject? Build a library on your Kindle or otherwise. Work as Worship guru, Justin Forman, lists such works as “Our Souls at Work,” by Mark Russell, [...]

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Thanks to The Mission Network, Anacortes, WA, for undergirding Brigada’s global ministry with a $100 gift this past week! We appreciate you! Thanks also to Insurance Services of America (ISA) for their gift of $59.58, reflective of Brigada participants who purchased trip interruption insurance and thereby protected travelers and donors alike from disruption and waste. [...]

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When I was just getting started, I (like everyone else?) attended an Urbana Missions Conference (1984, if I recall). We had been involved in missions for 2 years and I had heard all about Urbana and was hungry to go. About 2 weeks before the event, I strained my back big-time. Pulled it totally out [...]

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