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.

Thanks for being part of the Brigada family!

30 Comments

30 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

  • 15 TJ // Nov 9, 2010 at 10:02 am

    Doug, a suggestion: When you’re posting outside links, specifying them to always try to open in a new pop-up window is a pain for many of your readers, like me! I suggest re-using the active window instead. Thanks.

  • 16 Editor // Nov 13, 2010 at 12:14 am

    That’s great feedback TJ. Here, all along, we were assuming that opening up in the same window would be a hassle, because it would constantly push you *away* from Brigada and you’d lose track of where you were. By opening up a new window, you could get in the habit of looking at the new site, checking it out, then closing that window and instantly returning to the place where you left off in Brigada. Am I missing something, or isn’t that a great work flow?

  • 17 Editor // Dec 19, 2010 at 9:58 pm

    The request for removal has been removed and all signs with it.

  • 18 Editor // Mar 9, 2011 at 5:57 am

    Enabled akismet with a key. I *think* that has the spam floodgate stopped.

  • 19 Stanley Foster // Apr 18, 2011 at 9:32 pm

    Hello, my name is Stanley Foster and I was in missions for 17 years. I’m writing a book of my experiences for anyone considering missions or seeking direction in missions. May I have your permission to include Brigada as a missions resource in the book?
    Thank you very much,
    In Christ
    Stan Foster
    850-774-1072
    stanpcbataoldotcom

  • 20 Editor // Apr 26, 2011 at 1:24 am

    HI Stanley. Please do!

  • 21 Hansjörg // Jun 6, 2011 at 4:01 am

    Where is Jesus in your Tag Cloud? This gives me a headache …

  • 22 Tyler // Jun 12, 2011 at 1:17 am

    Hello Doug,

    I am an electrician who like to use my skills to “help”. Is there a resource website for skilled trades in missions. I know alot of co workers with a similar desire. I would love to hear something about this in brigada.

    thanks
    Tyler

  • 23 Majida // Jun 15, 2011 at 1:21 pm

    Dear Brethen,
    It is nice and blessed to visit your website. I am Majida Saleem from Pakistan( a christian believer). I do translation of Biblical documents and I request you to have the Urdu translation of whole of your material. I can translate it in low rates and can distribute in my local churches.
    In Jesus
    Majida

  • 24 Editor // Jun 25, 2011 at 8:52 pm

    Thanks for the input, Hansjorg. We’ve always thought it was okay just being about his business?

  • 25 Editor // Jun 25, 2011 at 8:54 pm

    We’ll ask!

  • 26 Josie Cruz // Aug 27, 2011 at 9:48 am

    Hi, i’m interested in tentmaking missions in Canada. Pls stand with me in prayers so that God can help me fulfill His purpose in my life. Thanks! God bless!

  • 27 vicky sterling // Oct 9, 2011 at 6:26 pm

    International ministry needs teachers for Asia to teach conversational English in colleges. Please post this as a prayer request. Thank you!

  • 28 Bill Moeller // Nov 14, 2011 at 9:22 am

    I have had a problem trying to unsubscribe and then subscribe a new email address. Please unsubscribe bmoelleratpoboxdotcom and then subscribe
    emailbillmatgmaildotcom
    Thanks,
    Bill Moeller

  • 29 Ron george // Dec 5, 2011 at 6:25 am

    A new bible college in Delhi is looking for donations of theological and mission books in English

    They are preparing workers for Hindu and Muslim ministries
    If you have any contact Ron George for shipping instructions

    Many thanks.

    Ron

  • 30 soyolmaa // Dec 13, 2011 at 7:50 am

    Dear Brigada,
    My name is Soya and i am from Mongolia.
    I am a mother of two small children who are 1 and 2 years old.
    I sit at home looking after my children and do not have job.
    Without any permanent profit with two small children on my hands i am having terrible hard time financialy.And we three practicaly starve time by time without food.
    That is why i am on internet hoping to find kind friends who may like to help us.
    Pls, help us with some monetary support so that i could take a breath and find out the way to get out of this position?
    If you decide to help us, pls, reply me?
    By the way if you have any plans in Mongolia, i can be in use.
    With my good prayers Soya.

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