Brigada

Our I.T. guy at Team Expansion recently recommended to me MailChimp.com and now I see why. You get up to 500 subscribers for free (more than enough for many missionary-types). If there’s a catch, it’s that you’re only allowed 3000 emails a month… but if you do a weekly prayer-request email to 499 people, you’ll [...]

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The growth of Facebook has been remarkable. Total users reached 500 million this month. Indeed, Facebook is becoming a ‘web within the Web’, a portal to everything. It offers great potential for Christians to share the good news, but only if we understand the nature of social networking and how to use it appropriately. For [...]

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In our continuing exploration, Tony passed along some new ways that missions can use Facebook and Twitter in evangelism. See… http://www.internetevangelismday.com/facebook-missions.php and http://www.internetevangelismday.com/twitter

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Need some literature to distribute there? Check out… http://www.soon.org.uk where you’ll find a “SOON” Outreach paper for free. We looked for this same paper on Facebook, couldn’t find it.

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Hands down — the best way I’ve found to record, share, and jointly pray for prayer requests is a patch of code written by the Prayer Engine. Find it at… http://www.theprayerengine.com/ Use it to create a “Prayer Wall” (not unlike a social networking page like Facebook©). Your members can quickly submit a prayer request, which [...]

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Internet Evangelism Day explains the potential of Facebook for evangelism, especially for cross-cultural missions: http://www.internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/1417 (Thanks for the note, Tony!)

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A buddy of mine working in a very sensitive field would like to know. He’ll use his VPN to watch this page directly. He wrote, “Two of the websites we made that got about 250K hits were recently blocked so we’re looking into alternatives.” Would you be able to direct him to any Facebook apps [...]

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As this Brigada Today goes out the door, we’re a dozen days into the new year. As you look back on 2009… and, in fact, the entire decade, how will you remember the years from Jan. 1st, 2000 to Dec. 31st, 2009? Let me give you some choices… so in the Comment box below, you [...]

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I continue to be interested in your protocols on social networking sites like Facebook. Some have expressed grave concern about their ramifications.  For example, one anonymous Brigada participant wrote this past week to share the procedure that his agency has embraced: “Because of the responsibility we have as a ministry, all volunteers, visitors or workers [...]

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It is hard to miss Joshua Project’s “Unreached of the Day” widgets on websites and Facebook profiles. But perhaps you are unaware there is an email version of these. Fuel your prayer for the unreached by getting these daily or weekly prayer reminders in your inbox. The email features a profile of a different unreached [...]

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There’s no doubt about it: I detest emailed trojans, viruses and phishing. There’s the one from Facebook asking you to log on to set your security preferences, or the similar message from PayPal. Then there’s the DHL message, “We couldn’t deliver your package.” And don’t forget the person in UK that has to send $1.7 [...]

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