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Join Chalmer’s Microfinance With Education Four-Week Course! March 19-April 22, 2012 Promoting Church-Centered Savings and Credit Associations has been created by the Chalmers Center for Economic Development to support the promotion of savings and credit groups as an outreach of the local church in the Majority World. This training is for practitioners and organizations who [...]

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That special deal on the High Impact Executive Course (E1), to be led by Al Newell and Associates, has nearly filled up. Recall that these are the same people who have trained the staff, leaders and volunteers of Voice of the Martyrs, Samaritans Purse (Operation Christmas Child), and Compassion International, to name a few, plus [...]

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Emmaus Road International is pleased to announce the availability of the 20th anniversary, revised and expanded edition of the classic book on member care: Serving As Senders. First published in 1991, in 16 print runs, numerous custom editions and 18 translations, over 400,000 copies have ministered to missionaries and their caregivers, alike. Serving As Senders~Today [...]

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That’s right. Have a look at…   http://www.gmi.org/newsletter/connection/4/   If you’ve purchased your own copy of the new “Operation: World” book, you’ve already taken the first step. Make a map that shows the region where you work… or where you’d like to work. Customize the location/region, the content, the color, and much more. Cool. Thanks [...]

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Missions and NGOs must be aware of the many ways that mobile phones are broadcasting information about their users’ activities and that various levels of surveillance are surprisingly easy. Read more at…   http://mobilemediatoolkit.org/mobile-surveillance-primer  

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Find the online environment at… http://www.Bible.org It is getting raves reviews and is complete with a daily Bible reading plans, dictionaries, and commentaries In addition it has articles from bible.org and 700 yrs of theological journals. It has a powerful search function where you can search articles, journals and the Bible for topics, words, phrases, [...]

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Do you have what it takes? Several years ago Brigada readers were introduced to the 12 chapter manual, Mentoring thru Intentional Relationships, which was designed to help guide a mentoring relationship. It has since been translated into five languages and is being used by leaders on four continents. The author of the manual has recently [...]

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Brigada readers helped Phil develop and provide psychometric validity for the Humanitarian Worker Wellness Inventory which several organizations are adopting.   http://www.brigada.org/files/wellnesschecklist-101.xlsx   He needs your help to develop a similar tool for adolescents.  View and ask your teens to view and comment on proposed statements here   https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eI8ambcYCTmovqoesdVvpCu5ydSManeggagcnPg57Uc/edit   When completed the tool will [...]

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A couple on the outskirts of Rome with two young boys, ages 3 and 5, are in need of child care while the mother works (only the father speaks English). The father is involved in outreach to Bangladeshi people, discipling Italians and tutoring Distance Study students, and will, Lord willing, soon be helping in a [...]

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This past week, we received a request from Dave, a long-time Brigada participant, asking if we had any favorite responsive readings or “charges” for ordinations and commissionings. We sent him about 5 pages, but honestly, we could use a bit of help thinking up something noteworthy. If you have a block of text, a link, [...]

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