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2008 year to date gifts/sponsorships = $3917.98 Needed in 2008 = $17,150 2004 total = $9,384.79; 2005 total = $10,952.28; 2006 total = $15,096 of 16,650; 2007 total = $14,218.90 of $17,150 (these funds go toward fuel for the Brigada missions fire, | |
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| 3/28/2008 | Here's a Brigada reader serving the Lord as a missionary with ABWE in Brazil, enclosing a note that reads, "when I see a resource on Brigada that I think will be useful to someone, I pass it on. Thanks so much!". She anonymously enclosed $50 from her heart. That's what keeps us going in the middle of the night sometimes, sending out these Brigada Todays... because it's obvious that some people want to jump in there and partner with us to make this happen. How can we ever quit? One friend from Arkansas sent $2.49 (we greatly appreciate all sizes of gifts!). His wife and he work in Central Europe among the Roma people (gypsies). This gift was leftover in his PayPal account from a sale on eBay. Great idea. Some faithful friends at OMF's office in Denver sent $200. We're bowled over by their partnership. Another reader from Topeka sent $50 more. Having lost a son-in-law this past year, he also enclosed the items above on grief. We also received a $25 gift from a Michigan Criminal Defense Lawyer. See the URL at http://www.michigandefenselaw.com/ Another $25 came from a Wycliffe worker. He hoped his gift would prompt others in Wycliffe to match him. A reader from Oregon gave $100. Now I know why they call it the *Great* Pacific Northwest! Thanks to "ICE" for the $50 gift. They wrote, "The International Council of Ethnodoxologists (ICE) -- a network for culturally appropriate Christian worship -- has been delighted to partner with Brigada from our very inception. Because we are a non-profit ministry, Brigada has been the primary way that we could afford to spread the news about our most significant events and services. You are a unique and irreplaceable partner in ministry, and we are grateful beyond words for your faithfulness." (Learn more about them by reading the item in the #1 spot above.) Thanks also to the Canadian who gave $100! |
| 3/7/2008 | Hats off to NMSI for their amazing gift! New Mission Systems Int'l is one of the fastest-growing mission organizations on the planet. They also happen to constantly be ranked as on of the Best Christian Organizations with which to work. What's more, they're based in Fort Myers, FL, a great place to train. Finally, they just freely made a $1000 gift to Brigada. That alone merits a stop by their page. [grin] But seriously... 170 missionaries, 24 countries, and counting. Even if you're just curious about them -- why they're growing when other orgs have stagnated? To learn more, just stop by and see their fresh & creative, community-based approach at work. You'll be glad you did. (Thanks Phil! God bless you and your entire organization!) |
| 2/29/2008 | Thanks to COSIM, who, via Partners Int'l, sent $100 to help keep Brigada going strong throughout 2008! And hats off to the individual from Newtown, PA, who sent $35, along with the missions pastor from Allentown, PA, who sent $50. Thanks, too, to Insurance Services of America (ISA) who sent $33.20 for int'l travelers Stephen, Lucy, Annami, Geraldn, David an Deidre. We appreciate you!!! |
| 2/22/2008 | Hats *way* off to the member of an International Church in the Middle East. He just wrote, "Five years ago our new pastor was reading Brigada and learned about the Missional International Church Network (MICN.org) and went to their first conference. He's been to each annual conference since then. MICN has given him ideas and encouragement and likeminded friends. Brigada has impacted our pastor and many members of our multicultural congregation. Keep up the Kingdom work!" This gentleman made big history in the Brigada world this past week, when, with hopes of encouraging Brigada onward, he sent a gift of $1,000!!!!!!! Do you realize? ... That's like... incredible. So thanks to all those who labor and encourage. And by the way, you'll recall that once we make our financial goal for the year, we're done. With this gift, the total jumps way up, and with the two donations we also rec'd this past week (one for $20 from Oklahoma and another for $25 Colorado), the total for 2008 is growing! |
| 2/15/2008 | We appreciate Clowns4Him... http://www.clowns4him.com for their recent sponsorship of Brigada to the tune of $100. Check out their innovative approaches to the cause of world evangelism. In addition, hats go off to Dial-abroad for their December and January sponsorship. See their great phone rates at... http://www.dial-abroad.org/brigada.htm Thanks to all those Dial-Abroad customers who talked their way into a $102.50 sponsorship toward Brigada. We also appreciated the $25 gift from Abelson Law Firm at http://www.attorneysfortheinjured.com Be sure to check them out if you need help from a good lawyer with a Great Commission heart. |
| 2/8/2008 | This week we're thankful for a family in Cambridge, MN, because they've remembered Brigada with a $15 gift. As mentioned above, ISA sent $161.54 with thanks for referring recent travelers. Blessed Hope sent $13.25 in thanks for Darlene, Ken, Ed, Richard, Steve, and Hurley -- who were all making phone calls through Blessed Hope this past month. (Please keep talking! :-) ) |
| 2/1/2008 | Thanks to Kingdom Come Training http://www.kingdomcometraining.com for the $60 gift they sent recently. What an encouragement. Thanks, too, goes to The Ableson Law Firm in Washington D.C. http://www.attorneysforpeople.com If you need an attorney in the DC area, we hope you'll check them out. We also received $20 from GLOBAL Opportunities. They were pre-paying a tithe of the registration money they hoped to gather from registrations to their Florida Tentmaking Course, Feb 20-24. (I know for a fact that our Outreach Director and his wife went to it from here at Team Expansion. I hope they picked up at least two others! :-) ) Finally, an anonymous reader from the Missions Resource Network, in the great state of Texas, sent $100. Bowled us over. Thank you so much!!! See their upcoming conferences and learn about their teams in preparation. |
| 1/25/2008 | We give Him the glory for the fact that a great new friend in Barbados gave $25. A family from St. Louis gave $100, another from Norman (OK) gave $100 more, and $35 came in from Little Rock, AR. We also received $25 from a worker at
Please stop by their website and check 'em out. |
| 1/18/2008 | Thanks to a prayer coordinator in Louisville, KY for honoring Brigada's 13th birthday with a $25 gift this past week. Yay! :-) Thanks, too, for a Joplin, MO, friend who sent $100!!! Awesome. These encouragers provide a tremendous boost, provide for the work of Brigada and also the field projects we are tackling! |
| 1/11/2008 | Kicking off our new year, we've also received $20 from a Texan with big dreams, wanting to "prime the pump" for '08 $25 Charleston S.C. Personal Injury lawyers, on the web at Thank you!!!! |
| 1/11/2008 | During the past week, in a final effort to address 2007 expenses, we've rec'd $50 from a dear couple working in Bosnia, $75 from a great encourager from Columbia, SC, $50 from a friend working with an unreached people group in Cen. Asia, $100 from the great Canadian Perspectives students & staff, BC, Canada, and $25 from a great friend in Morton, IL. Thank you all so very much... and.... Thanks for all those who chipped in during 2007!!! |
| 1/4/2008 | $100 from a new friend in Tallahassee $25 from the good people at Florida Personal Injury Law $100 from a friend in Menlo Park, CA, $100 from Perspectives Atlanta, GA, $50 from long-time subscriber Diana, author of Adventures With PawPaw children's books designed to introduce children to other countries and cultures, on the web at: http://www.adventureswithpawpaw.com $100 from Mission Mobilisers International Inc. in Australia $25 from Reignbridge, featuring Fawn's book "Power of Honor", $25 from a great friend in the UK, $250 from a Sunnyville, CA couple. Shew. How can we say thanks enough? $50 from Women of the Harvest. Please check them out at... http://www.womenoftheharvest.com (Whoa... great website. Pubs, retreats, resources, well-organized, sharp! Clean... Even if you're not a woman, check it out to learn from it! :-) ) $25 from Mission Indep. Bap. Church in Chicago, $25 from a faithful friend in Colorado Springs, $300 from Youth With a Mission, Lebanon, PA... Whoa. Praise God, $50 from new friends in Massachusetts, $100 from a faithful friend in Sweden, $500 from great new friends in the UK! Woooo-hoooo! :-) $200 from Peninsula Bible Church in Cupertino, CA! Amazing. $50 from Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship, Birmingham, AL, $25 from Somerset, KY $25 from West Chester, PA, $35 from Ukraine $100 from a member of the Board of Missions, Cumberland Pres. Church, $100 from Mission Nannys; take a look at their growth... Up to 2001, only 22 volunteers had been sent out. Since then, the number has jumped to 90 with 14 going out last year alone. (They're looking for more women volunteers 18-75 willing to go in 2008, by the way. Families need domestic assistance, homechooling help, etc. for 3-6 months. Check the web or email bettysullins(at) juno(dot)com [As a means of preventing spam for our contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with . and reassemble the address onto one line.] To all these folks and to all those who pray for Brigada, thank you for a *fantastic* last week! Only 4 more days to go for 2007 gifts. (Recall that we're counting for 2007 gifts that come in through Jan. 10th.) |
| 12/28/2007 | Just arrived are gifts from anonymous givers in ... St. Louis, MO -- $100 and Bellflower, CA -- $25. "Lord, please bless these encouragers for undergirding the work of Brigada! |
| 12/21/2007 | $50 from a brother in Tulsa, OK, helping launch the Network of Azerbaijani Partnerships. This is a network of partnerships in several countries that work among and advocate for the 40 million unreached Azerbaijani people predominately in Azerbaijan, Iran, and Iraq, but also in smaller numbers in other countries in Central Asia, plus the UK and the US. Please take a moment right now to lift up the Azerbaijani people and this consortium of partnerships. Give praise that they're hooking up and ask God to bless those who are trying to pull them all together. $50 from a partner in Minnesota $100 with love from some anonymous YWAMers who work in Vietnam; "God bless you richly for all you do on behalf of the unreached!" $25 from a partner in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin $25 from Washington Injury Lawyers, http://www.washingtoninjury.com and $25 from Birmingham Personal Injury Lawyers, http://www.beltlawfirm.com (Please give thanks tonight for these attorneys who are setting about to use their gifts & skills for God's glory!) $216 from a worker in StoryRunners, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ using oral methods to reach Unreached People Groups. They wrote, "Thanks so much for your ongoing ministry to the missions community! I read your Brigada regularly and have benefited from it greatly! May the Lord meet ALL your needs and keep the Brigada flame bright!" Please pause tonight to lift up this innovative form of gospel outreach. $25 from a family headed soon to Zambia. They wrote, "I've been a Sr. pastor for the last 13 years here in Illinois; my wife and I are departing on Jan 10 to serve with Action International Ministries in Lusaka, Zambia. I will be involved in pastoral leadership development and my wife will be involved with pastor's wives and children's ministries. If the Lord would keep us in good health we hope to spend the next ten years serving the church in Africa. We are both 56. Your weekly email has proved helpful on several occasions as we have been preparing for missions. In fact, it is the only subscription email that I am keeping as we make the move. Thank you for your service to us." Whoa. Sobering and encouraging. Please lift them up tonight. $25 from a worker at Global Mapping in Colorado $50 from a friend in Perry Hall, MD $100 from a new friend in Texas $50 from Honey Brook, PA $50 from Columbia, SC $25 from Orlando, FL $100 from an individual at CAL Berkeley. |
| 11/30/2007 | I'll have to admit... it's an amazing feeling of encouragement and motivation when Brigada receives gifts such as a $500 push from a member of Arab World Ministries. Isn't it kind of ironic that the people who work in some of the toughest places on earth end up with some of the least kudos, partly because they can't even tell people about their progress? Think about it. When they start being really successful, that's when they could get in the biggest trouble! So here's a big prayer of thanks for *all* those who are working in the dry places on earth... in the spiritually parched portions of the planet. Please take this opportunity, on behalf of *all* of them, to offer up a prayer of thanks for those who labor in Jesus- darkness, with hopes of being able to live as a still small voice on behalf of a loving savior. Thanks, too, to Peninsula Bible Church in Cupertino, California! $200 will go a *long* way... a *very* long way, in fact, toward helping us finish 2007 strong! Thank you!!! |
| 11/23/2007 | We *so* appreciate our dear brother in Sweden who came back in 2007 to give $100, and another anonymous couple out East sent $50. On top of that, YWAM in Lebanon, PA bowled us over with a $300 gift! Sobered, encouraged, and motivated... Thank you! Another anonymous sister sent $100. A brother in Texas sent $25, joined by another brother who also sent $25 from the mountains of Northern Thailand and yet another from here in Kentucky (also $25). A missions committee member from Davao sent $50 with a very encouraging note. Workers from Oscar in UK also sent $50 and a couple working in Brazil sent $25. Another mobilizer from the great state of Texas sent $100. We give praise to God for this partnership and help! |
| 11/16/2007 | This past week, we rec'd $15.13 from Blessed Hope in the name of those using their phone services during June & July; See http://www.lowermyphonebill.com/brigada/ for ideas on how to lower your bill! $50 from an anonymous long-term participant in Budapest, Hungary $50 from a partner on the East Coast $100 from a great friend in Sweden $300 from YWAM in Lebanon, PA Thank you to these partners and those hooking up with them!
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| 11/9/2007 | We're so grateful for those who keep the lights burning here! We've recently received these gifts:
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| 11/2/2007 | We are so blessed to have received gifts recently from anonymous donors for $180 (from a worker in China) and $25. We also received $25 from http://www.lawyersva.com They're a Richmond Personal Injury Law Firm. If you have *any* reason to have to call a lawyer and you haven't engaged one yet, I would *sincerely* hope *someone* gives them a call, if for no other reason than they know that Brigada readers appreciate them helping underwrite Brigada. Finally -- and get this -- we received a $300 donation from WorldconneX Mission Network at http://www.worldconnex.org Expect to hear more later on them. |
| 10/26/2007 | Our good friends at Dial-Abroad sent $60.95 in thanks for those who learned about their services via Brigada. Thanks! To try Dial-Abroad's revolutionary phone services (at a great price), just click to: http://www.dial-abroad.org/brigada.htm In addition, an Oregonian sent $20, joined by a resident of Kentucky who sent $25. And a new friend from the great state of Pennsylvania sent $300! |
| 10/19/2007 | We're extremely grateful to Insurance Services of America for their recent donations of $78.40, $23.10, and $63.63 to help us keep Brigada going out the door. Thanks, too, to the travelers who used their services -- Esther, Irene, Jay, Rena, Rie, Geraldn, Bruce, Ann, Tyler, Savannah, Logan, Donna, Daniel, Yvonne, Ted, ... and especially Heather, who, in turn, booked Donna, Chris, Mike, Amber, Aubri, Alicia, David ,Kathryn, Michael. Want to join them in booking quality insurance on your next trip -- travel interruption, trip cancellation, medical evacuation, and much more? Just go to: http://www.missionaryhealth.net/brigada.htm |
| 10/05/2007 | We're grateful this week for Orphan Voice, College Heights Christian Church and a worker from Team Expansion -- because they all bought their trip interruption insurance from ISA at: http://www.missionaryhealth.net/brigada.htm And ISA, in turn, gave a portion of those funds -- $89.05 in face -- to help get Brigada onto your screens! Thanks ISA! Thanks, too, to Dial Abroad for the $60.95 they sent as a thank you to Dial Abroad "Brigada-based" customers using their services. Thanks for those who keep talking!!! :-) Thanks, too, to the anonymous reader who sent $180 saying "Keep up the great work", another who sent ***$500***, and another who sent $100 from the Pacific Rim. We were also appreciative of the Core Coaching Skills Certificate Program http://www.creativeresultsmanagement.com for sending $75 as a way of saying thanks "all the good information that flows through Brigada." [blush] (God be praised, Keith!) Please go check out his site today. |
| 9/28/2007 | Thanks to the West Ridge Christian Church for their innovative and encouraging support of regional missions mobilization meetings. May God bless their $100 gift to Brigada. We appreciate you! Thanks, too, for the anonymous donors who gave $100 and $25 this past week, along with the prayer coordinator who gave $25. Thanks, too, to Blessed Hope who gave $15.47 in sponsorship gifts. Learn more about their great phone plans at http://www.lowermyphonebill.com/brigada Thanks to the Kingdom Come Training worker who gave $20. May God bless their training outreach for His glory. Finally, may God bless the radio ministry workers who just sent $100. We're so thankful for their love for you, for your work around the world, and for getting the message out via radio.
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| 9/21/2007 | When we received the $25 gift from a Wycliffe worker, we were overjoyed. On top of that, enough of you talked on the phone in July and August that Dial-Abroad could send $105.38 in sponsored commissions! Thanks for talking! If you'd like to set up a similar account, just browse to: http://www.dial-abroad.org/brigada.htm Use that site to set up your phone bill, buy travel phone cards, and help Brigada all at the same time. Join us in thanking God for the prayer coordinator who sacrificially gave $25 more dollars to Brigada. Her gift will help us push the gospel message forward -- and provide resources for others doing the same. And what about the good folks at the church in Joplin, MO that used ISA to purchase their trip cancellation insurance? $162.24! We're so thankful. To purchase your trip insurance at below market rates and help Brigada too, just click to: http://www.missionaryhealth.net/brigada.htm Finally, we're so thankful for the Brigada participant who wrote, "Hi guys. I've just been sitting here reading all the 'catch-up' issues of Brigada. What a wealth of information and opportunities. ... I am always encouraged... I am an ex-YWAMer... My heart is divided between being a 'goer' and a 'mobilizer.' So as you can see, Brigada is the perfect vehicle for me to keep a foot in both areas. ... I truly appreciate the time and effort you put into keeping all of us informed. What you do *does* make a difference. ... I pray God will supply your needs to continue this ministry." Whoa. Sobering and encouraging... Thanks for the booster shot of $100!!!
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| 9/14/2007 | We're humbled and encouraged by the gifts we receive from new friends of Brigada. This past week, we received $25 from MissionTravel.org. They wrote, " Thank you for leading the way to equip believers serving in the missions community. We are happy to help in this way as you advance His kingdom. God bless, MissionTravel.org owners." If you don't mind, please give them a try in the near future, if at all possible. Thanks! http://www.missiontravel.org |
| 7/13/2007 | A Missions Minister wrote, this past week, "I'm a missions minister that is very grateful for the wonderful service you provide through Brigada. I find items in at least every third issue that is helpful to me. Thank you for your efforts for the kingdom." He enclosed a check for $25. Thanks!!! In addition, thanks to PureSpring Int'l Ministries, Johnathon, Kathleen, Ruth, and First Baptist of Junction City who all bought their travelers' insurance via , thereby resulting in a sponsorship gift of $47.75! If you're going to buy traveler's interruption insurance anyway, (or, for that matter, any other kind of insurance) why not give them a try at: http://www.missionaryhealth.net/brigada.htm Thanks, too, for the $20 donation from Golden Rule Travel http://goldenruletravel.com/missionary.asp a Christian travel agency that specializes in missionary, adoption, and humanitarian travel. They have special contracts to get the lowest price and extensive knowledge of our industry to give you the best service. Their 24/7 cell phone customer service is unprecedented and industry- leading. Please take a look at them. |
| 7/6/2007 | We are so grateful for those who take initiative to encourage us with a financial gift to help with our expenses and spur us on toward the future. We are supported missionaries, serving with Team Expansion, based in Louisville, KY. We appreciate the funding for our ministry, which also includes, for Brigada, expenses in webhosting, some small marketing projects, secretarial costs, as well as projects for world evangelism. Nothing is wasted. This past week, we rec'd a $25 from a booster in Arkansas. (Thanks!) |
| 6/29/2007 | This past week, we rec'd a $180 gift from a very active worker with an interest in Asia. We praise God for his efforts. We also rec'd $20 from an anonymous staff member of Studio TEN Ministries. Dial-abroad pitched in another $38.70. |
| 6/15/2007 | We appreciate the anonymous donor from Oklahoma who sent $67. That was an incredible encouragement. Thanks, too, to the anonymous Brigada participant from Oregon who just set up a $10/month regular gift for our expenses here... and to encourage us on into tomorrow. We put the money toward webhosting, some small marketing projects, secretarial costs, as well as projects for world evangelism. Nothing is wasted. So when we receive $10 from a fellow from Oregon, it can accomplish a lot at Brigada. Thank you!!! |
| 6/8/2007 | We have to thank our Dial-Abroad long distance users, whose long-distance phone conversations enabled Dial-Abroad to send us $213.16 as sponsorship for the last 4 months phone use. Thanks guys! If you have to purchase a long distance service from somebody anyway, why not use Dial-Abroad and recycle free money to Brigada! Just click to: http://www.dial-abroad.org/brigada.htm Another anonymous user just sent $180 as encouragement toward the work. Whoa. Thanks! |
| 6/1/2007 | Thanks to the YWAMmers from the far North who sent $50 to enable more work from Brigada! We appreciate you and the fact that you wanted to remain anonymous... but we're forever grateful for your sacrificial service long-term in the field. Another partner from Topeka sent $50. Shew. We appreciate you. Thanks to the other friend who sent $100 -- same story - - long-time Brigada reader who just wanted to say thanks. What an honor to serve him. Another $100 came from Alameda, CA. Praise be to God. And finally, thanks to the missions-oriented church on the East Coast who sent $500 to undergird our work here and keep Brigada going out the door. Inspirational and humbling -- that's what that is. They added that they had been getting Brigada since nearly the very beginning. What an encouragement. Thank you so much. |
| 5/11/2007 | Thanks to Blessed Hope for its support of Brigada -- $10.23 worth of sponsorships this past week as a result of Brigada patrons using their service! Thank you! If you'd like to line up some top-quality phone service at a great price, while helping Brigada pump out resources to the nations, browse to: http://www.lowermyphonebill.com/brigada Meanwhile, Mission Nannys chipped in $100 more, commenting that Brigada had helped them increase news and exposure to their ministry. See... Thank you Betty and staff! Finally, we're incredibly grateful this week to 2 relatively new Brigada participants who wrote, "We just want to thank you for your ministry. ... God is using your ministry in might ways. Thank you for striving to build community among like-minded folks." They added, "My husband and I are looking for a new church and felt led to tithe our money for the month to Brigada. Please accept our offering and I pray that God will use it to increase fruit at Brigada. Keep up the good work!" They sent a check for $500. Gulp. Thank you for your kindness and encouragement!!! It's sobering to think that it would only take 30 more individuals like them, giving their tithe for just 1 month of the year! Then Brigada would be funded for the entire year and we'd never mention finances again 'til January 2008!!!! |
| 5/4/2007 | Thanks to the anonymous donor from Equip, Inc. http://www.equipinternational.com who gave $150 this past week to undergird Brigada! |
| 4/27/2007 | One Brigada reader did this past week. She sent $100 to encourage us here. She's a worker with OMF International. As a result, she's caused us to forever be grateful, thankful, and prayerful for the folks at OMF! What's more, she's spurred us on to good works! Thanks!!! |
| 4/20/2007 | Thanks to the Brigada participant from Kingdom Come Training who sent $20 this past week. He joins a partner from Chiang Mai who sent $10 and another partner from TalkingBibles.org who sent $25. Thank you so much for the encouragement! |
| 4/06/2007 | Thanks to these volunteers who, with their encouraging gifts, have added fuel to our fire: A former ACMC member sent $50 this past week. Thanks!!! Our prayers are with your new role. A resident from Arizona sent *another* $50 just yesterday. We are *sooo* thankful!!! |
| 3/23/2007 | We're grateful to those who make our work possible here. This past week, we're thankful for Dial-Abroad, who gave $111 as a way of saying thanks for recent referrals to their great long-distance service, along with help for telecommunicating travelers. Check them out at: |
| 3/16/2007 | Our hat goes off to the people who make our work go smoothly here. This past week, we received $100 from an anonymous donor in Ontario. Thanks for undergirding Brigada! We're also grateful to Insurance Services of America for $27.39 as a thank-you for the fact that travelers such as Richard, Jonathan, and Miriam bought travel interruption insurance from them. Learn more about ISA at... http://www.missionaryhealth.net/brigada.htm We're also thankful again for Blessed Hope Communications who gave a portion of their Brigada-related long-distance sales -- $9.02 this past month. If you need long-distance services, please consider... |
| 3/9/2007 | WE OWE THANKS TO... -- Insurance Services of America (ISA) for a $17.30 gift that resulted from a person buying a travelers' insurance policy. Hey... let's just talk turkey here: if every Brigada Today participant merely bought travel interruption insurance from ISA, the truth is, just that alone would probably take care of the small amount of funds we need to break even. Learn more about ISA's plans at: http://www.missionaryhealth.net/brigada.htm Thanks, too, to Clowns4Him http://www.clowns4him.com/ for recently sharing $100, with this comment: "We appreciate Brigada and the diversity of information that is delivered online to us." God be praised. |
| 3/2/2007 | Our hats go off to The Chapel in St. Joseph, MI for their recent gift of $100 to Brigada to encourage us onward. And Blessed Hope is still at it with a gift of $50 due to InPhonic phone commissions for Oct. - Dec. 2006 (Thanks for subscribing to them, Daniel!). Thanks Blessed Hope! To learn more about their great service and low rates, visit: http://www.lowermyphonebill.com/brigada |
| 2/23/2007 | Thanks to recent Brigada donors which included $21.20 from Blessed Hope, a Christian owned US long distance service with cheap rates for people living in the USA. Get 4.9 cents per minute interstate rates with no monthly or hidden fees. If you are paying higher rates, then visit this site. http://www.lowermyphonebill.com/brigada and $25 from Magazine Training Int'l, equipping Christian magazine publishers for effective ministry in East-Central Europe, Asia and around the world. Learn more about their work at: |
| 2/16/2007 | THANKS FOR THE PARTNERSHIP -- Thanks to the pair of Team Expansion missionaries in Bosnia who sent $100 for Brigada. Feel the love! They affirmed an encouragement that keeps us writing. The Balkans have spoken! What about your region of the world? Can you match their encouragement? |
| 2/9/2007 | INDEBTED TO PARTNERS -- Thanks to those who make Brigada happen through their prayers and financial partnership. This past week, Good News Productions stoked the fire with a $100 gift. Learn more about their ministry of media development and distribution at: http://gnpi.org/ . Insurance Services of America added fuel by sending sponsorship gifts in the name of Jason and Jon, who each had purchased insurance with them. So ISA promptly sent $20.95 in their name. It's that simple. Purchase an insurance policy or trip interruption insurance with ISA and they'll immediately help Brigada. Learn more at http://www.missionaryhealth.net/brigada.htm Note that you must use this link or *tell* them in order for the sponsorship to happen. Thanks! |
| 2/2/2007 | Italian Evangelicals now have a great page for their features... at http://www.evangelici.net . Thanks for their $50 donation to Brigada! |
| 1/19/2007 | WE'RE SO THANKFUL... -- Thanks to the anonymous donors who gave $25, $10, $10, and $100 to spur on Brigada to good works. Gulp. What an awesome and sobering responsibility it is to be in this work. Thanks once again. |
| 1/12/2007 | And what a glorious encouragement it is to see a $200 gift from an anonymous donor from Las Cruces, NM. What's more, here's an anonymous donor that gave $10 in cash, and a fortune in words: "Thank you Doug for your consistent work for so many years! Not only have you kept our focus on unreached peoples, but you have shared invaluable internet and email security tips and software. Both of these features have been essential for effective international outreach. Thanks a million!" We give praise to God for these encouarging words. |
| 1/5/2007 | Thanks to the students at Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, KY, from the GIAL program... http://www.gial.edu which is a dual-degree (M. Div. in Missions and Bible Translation from Southern Baptist and an M.A. in applied Linguistics from GIAL). One couple sent $25 while they were students there. We also received several anonymous donations, including $25, $50 from a YWAMmer in Europe, $100, $60, $100, $50 from Deeper Roots (write them at hlisech@aol.com ), plus $76.40 from Good Neighbor Insurance. Learn more about their offers at http://www.gninsurance.com/brigada.asp Blessed Hope Communications sent $21.83 for Aug. & Sept. '06 long distance commissions (from Brigada Today participants who signed up for long distance with their service; Thank you for talking!). To learn more or sign up, just visit: http://www.lowermyphonebill.com/brigada We're very grateful to World Indigenous Missions for a $100 gift to keep us going. Learn more about their work at...http://www.worldim.com/ (but as this Brigada goes out the door, that site is not responding). Finally, thanks for Bill's donation of $100 to help Brigada keep pumping out issues. Bill is affiliated with "Into All the World", which invites any and all who want mission input in Canada to look them up at http://www.iatw.ca Several other anonymous donors chipped in with gifts of $25, 50, 50, 100, 25, 50, 50, 300, and $25. One of those was from Italy. Several operate various ministries but gave anonymously. We appreciate all of them, and counted them all toward the new telescope. |
| 12/22/2006 | Thanks to gifts from an anonymous Virginia participant ($250), another from Oregon ($100), Salem Alliance Church from Salem, OR ($100), a medical missionary in Tanzania ($200), $50 from another employee at Johnson Bible College ($50 -- that's two employees in as many weeks!), a worker in Germany ($50), another in Richmond, VA ($50), yet another from Rockville, MD ($50), a servant with www.christiansincrisis.net and finally, Roland Muller of Roland Muller Books, rmuller.com ($100 gift). |
| 12/15/2006 | PLEASE HELP ME THANK GOD FOR THESE PARTNERS -- Whoa! Several Brigada participants have stepped in to make a *huge* difference in the last week. We dared you to step up to the plate. Praise God for the Missions Prof at Johnson Bible College, Brent, who gave $40 of his own money. Learn more about them at: Join us in thanking Russian Language Ministries, now known as Institute of Strategic Languages and Cultures, who sent $100. See them at: http://www.russianlanguage.org One anonymous worker at StoryRunners gave $250! I wish so much you would visit their homepage and learn about this newest ministry of Campus Crusade to help reach Unreached People Groups of the world using oral strategies -- storying. Most of those unreached groups, we're told, are orally-based cultures. One donor gave $50 in honor of his Missions Pastor, Mark Struck, from Autumn Ridge Church, Rochester, MN. Mark, sounds like you're loved! Another partner, an African Inland Missionary worker, gave $200! (Amazing) Other anonymous donors gave $20, $500, and $50. And the Central Wesleyan Church in Holland, MI, gave $500. (Makes we want to go visit there.) Another Michigan-ite gave $25 as a gift of love. Thank you all so very much. |
| 12/08/2006 | This Christmas season, we here at Brigada Today are very thankful for our partners, those who are spurring us on to good works and keeping Brigada Today headed out the door. This past week, anonymous donors gave $25, $25, and $30. That $30 gift was from a worker in Russia who wrote, "We appreciate your service to the 'Work'." Another gave $100, and still another gave $500. That $500 gift came from the Dir. of "Commission to Every Nation," who wrote, "You have been a source of great information over the years and we appreciate it very much. ... I continue to recommend you to anyone looking for data and ideas pertaining to missions. Rich blessings to the entire team!" To learn more about Commission to Every Nation, browse to: http://www.cten.org In addition, Dial-abroad sent their Sept. and Oct. sponsorship, in view of those who "dialed abroad" during those months (thank you for talking!), a total of $93.75. If you'd like to learn more about their great deals for telecommunicating, just browse to: http://www.dial-abroad.org/brigada.htm Via PayPal, donors gave $50, $10, $25, $100, $100, $25, $25, $100, $100 and $10. All together, those gifts add up to $1198.75!!! To all of these helpers, we say a giant hats-off thank you! |
| 11/17/2006 | Thanks to George of CIT for his very kind gift of $150. Visit the Center for Intercultural Training at www.cit-online.org. |
| 11/10/2006 | Thanks to the anonymous user from Centennial, CO who gave $50 to help launch Brigada into a new week! And thanks to the other anonymous user from the UAE who gave $100! We appreciate you! |
| 11/03/2006 | Thanks so much for the anonyous gifts of $20, $50, $25, $5, and $20 to Brigada! Your generosity and partnership is *such* a shot in the arm! That's why I'm up at midnight tonight doing this! Thanks, too, for the gift of $150 from VisionSynergy. Learn more about their ministry at: This organization picks up where Interdev left off . . . and goes well into the future by connecting networks that can make a difference! Thanks, Bill, for the tremendous help and hope! Also we're grateful for Insurance Services of America (ISA) for their sponsorship of $70.87, due to the overseas travel by folks from College Heights Christian Church in Joplin, MO. (Go College Heights!) It's a win-win situation. College Heights gets fare protection for all their flights, in case something goes haywire on their trips... and Brigada gets more fuel for the fire of missions! Love it. Learn more about your options with ISA at: http://www.missionaryhealth.net/brigada.htm Thanks, too, to Blessed Hope for their $9.27 gift due to long distance phone use. Sign up for their very reasonably-priced services at: http://www.lowermyphonebill.com/brigada Finally -- get this -- Covenant College's Chalmers Center has come through again to help us with a $600 gift -- as a thank-you note for telling the world about their great programs to help missionaries all over the world. Learn more at |
| 10/20/2006 | Thanks to the anonymous givers who gave $20, $180, and $100 this past week. Here's the truth: Many weekends, when it seems so hard to find time to keep Brigada going, these sponsors and donors make *soooo* much difference. Thank you! |
| 10/13/2006 | Thanks to those who have recently given, anonymously, to help get Brigada out the door and onto your screen efficiently. These gifts help us with some small marketing costs, scretarial help, web costs, etc. As you may recall, we have set a goal for 2006 to cover $16,650. So far, $5477.34 had come in prior to these gifts. Now we've rec'd these donations from partners and friends on a mission: $100.00, $31.72, $25.00, $20.00, $100.00, $100.00, $25.00, $50.00, $50.00, $101.79, $25.00, $25.00, $100.00 |
| 10/06/2006 | There's no way we could quit this ministry when we receive gifts and encouraging notes like these... $60 from and a great note from a brother in Cedar Hill, TX, $200 and a great note from Plainfield, IL, $5 from a faithful supporter in Europe. Whoa... Thank you so much. |
| 9/29/2006 | IN PRAISE OF THOSE STANDING IN THE GAP -- Do you think these gifts encourage us here at Brigada? You bet they do. I can't tell you how motivating it is. (Witness that I'm here at midnight doing this Brigada.) These people and groups stood in the gap this past week: GMI - $25 in honor of those who bought the Buddhist World CD. See their website at In addition, $101.79 from Dial-abroad as a means of saying thanks for several players who went with dial-abroad.com (in July & August) [Please keep talking!] And $11.29 from Blessed Hope (Accxx communications) to say thanks for those who used their long distance service in June. Sign up at: http://www.lowermyphonebill.com/brigada Insurance Services of America stood good on their offer to share from insurance policies you bought for short-term mission trip travel by sending $ 115.92 (Please keep insuring! :-) ). Learn about their great policies at http://www.missionaryhealth.net/brigada.htm Hats off, too, to the Peninsula Bible Church in Cupertino for sending $150. Please... if you're searching for a church home with a missions heart, consider them. Learn more at What's more, we received great and encouraging gifts in these amounts from anonymous helpers: $200, $100, $25, $50, $50, $50, $26, $25, $25, $10 and $100 from the President of initiative 360. One anonymous donor wrote, "I know Brigada has served many Navigator missionaries including me. Thanks for your service to the Body." Another wrote, "Keep up the excellent work." Thank you so much for the encouragement. |
| 8/18/2006 | Thanks to the anonymous donor who gave $11.25 ... We appreciate you! |
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