Brigada

Resources, trends, and motivation to fulfill the Great Commission

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About

Brigada is a growing collection of web- and email-based resources staged from the offices of Team Expansion at Emerald Hills in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Brigada Today a web journal offering resources, strategy tips, tools & “hacks” to Great Commission Christians. It is edited by Doug Lucas, Team Expansion, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Brigada Training provides an environment where likeminded Christian workers can launch, train and empower global witnesses in service to the glory of God.

Here’s a very brief history:
Since January 25th, 1995, the weekly Brigada Today email journal has been informing Great Commission Christians about our great global quest: giving hope and help to those who need it most. During its initial 3 or 4 years, Brigada sought to create email discussion groups that would unify like-minded pilgrims in reaching specific pockets of people. Thankfully, now there are several specialist websites dedicated to that task. In more recent years, Brigada has honed in on what it always did best for Christians in God’s Great Cause:

  • Identify & promote helpful resources, conferences, websites, agencies, individuals, etc.
  • Analyze & capsulate in layman terms the current trends in global mission, along with their potential impact on the world of missions
  • Challenge & motivate evangelical Christians toward greater involvement in finishing the Task of global evangelism — to seek to inspire others to help in passing the baton of responsibility and initiative in world evangelism, to form a kind of “brigade” so that, shoulder to shoulder, we can finish the Task that Jesus assigned us in Matthew 28:19-20.

Today there are about 10,000 subscribers of our weekly publication who, together, make up the Brigada family of participants. May God grant all of us wisdom, insight, and energy to keep on sharing hope and help to those who need it most!

Beginning June 28, 2008, Brigada transitioned to what one might refer to as a “Web 2.0″ site, where interaction is invited on a regular basis. When doing so, in a manner of speaking, we re-created history, posting every past edition of Brigada Today via this blogging approach as if they had been written this way all along. The real truth is that the original versions of these Brigada Today editions were sent out as emails, then logged to the web in a completely different format. Beginning June 28, 2008, we recast them here in this new format, which includes multiple new tools such as all-site searching, date sorting, commenting, and much more.
On July 14, 2009, Brigada launched a training site with the hopes that like-minded believers everywhere would use tools there to launch, train and empower global witnesses in service to the glory of God. The development of this site is ongoing.

Thanks for being part of the Brigada family!

14 Comments

14 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Hans // Jul 21, 2009 at 8:34 am

    why is it so difficult to get the date right on the email version of brigada today?

  • 2 Editor // Jul 21, 2009 at 11:45 am

    Hi Hans. Is it the date that’s wrong? Or is it our stickly protocol of doing editions in date order regardless of when we turn them out? In other words, we *will* eventually catch up. So … we deplore dropping out dates but prefer, instead, keeping dates in consecutive order until we *do* catch up. Does that help explain it? You still don’t like it though, right?

    Doug

  • 3 Butch // Oct 13, 2009 at 10:37 am

    The new website for j316 ministries is now live. Could this be mentioned to all the readers.Blessings .

  • 4 Editor // Oct 19, 2009 at 11:49 am

    Sure. Click on “Submit” in the topline menu for submission guidelines. Thanks!
    Doug

  • 5 Pastor Samuel Amulraj // Nov 10, 2009 at 1:14 am

    Pray for India

  • 6 Pastor Samuel Amulraj // Nov 10, 2009 at 1:16 am

    we are pray for you

  • 7 Ted // Dec 26, 2009 at 7:30 am

    Lost your email addresses so…
    Pray you all had a u-beaut Christmas
    Enjoyed meeting so many of you before the NACC.
    Blessings, Ted Bjorem

  • 8 Editor // Dec 26, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    Hi Ted. Great to hear from you. Thanks for the contact. I’ll drop you a line.
    Doug

  • 9 Editor // Dec 26, 2009 at 7:39 pm

    Actually, I guess I don’t have your email address. Mine is D
    Lucas
    (at)
    Team Expansion (dot) org
    Thanks!

  • 10 fayo // Apr 20, 2010 at 9:56 pm

    I just love Brigada! I am a newcomer to Brigada. I truly enjoy reading it. It gives me the chance to learn about things that I would most likely never hear of on my own. It is great to read, it is full of valuable information and it is inspiring. Keep up the good work Doug.

  • 11 Becca Nelson // May 6, 2010 at 10:36 am

    Hi!

    This is a fannntastiiic website ! Do you think you could add us to your list of favorite links?

    http://www.ChristianVolunteering.org has LOTS of links about fulfilling the great commission! :).

    Becca

  • 12 Editor // May 6, 2010 at 6:26 pm

    You were just added to this About page. If you’d like to be listed with Regular Sponsors, I’m afraid those folks are the folks who have committed to regular giving. (Though I need to advise some who have missed giving for a while! :-) ) But you can always write an article for an edition of Brigada. Just click on “Submit” in the top line menu.

  • 13 Grace // Jun 19, 2010 at 5:21 am

    Hello from World Missionary Kids organization! Though Korean MKs are our first participants, WMK is working towards reaching out to all MKs of all nationalities. We too aim to be used by God to fulfill the Great Commission! You have a great Web site here. Blessings as you continue to do God’s work!

  • 14 Editor // Jun 22, 2010 at 3:08 am

    Grace, sounds like you have a great vision. If you have a website, feel free to post it here. I did a brief search, but wasn’t sure I found you. Thanks again.
    Doug

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