9) NightEarth.com Reveals Huge Population Centers and More
If you’ve ever visited www.Nightearth.com, you already know how cool it is to see real-time population centers all lit-up at night. What you might NOT have done is look up your own destination city or hometown. Check it out. It’s the ultimate “high ground”
Using this technology helps us see the earth through new glasses. Can you find your house?
10) Global Poverty Has Declined by 78% in just Four Decades!
Can you believe the good news? If you haven’t yet seen it, check out the evidence at…
https://www.humanprogress.org/article.php?p=462
Thanks to all those who have been working to alleviate hunger, sickness, and poverty! God bless you! (Thanks for passing this along, Steve.)
11) How to Mentor Ladies in Your Part of the World
Have you recently helped a ladies Bible study make forward progress in understanding what it’s like truly to follow Jesus? So don’t just quit and lose momentum. Check out the world of “Love Unveiled” to see if there are any resources that would help you!
Love unveiled — http://www.loveunveiled.org/ .
(Thanks for bubbling this up to us, Lynn)
12) What is Missions Mobilization? A Definition
Ever wonder how you might define missions mobilization? The folks at GlobalCast Resources have made it easy for us. Check out their definition via this super-short video:
Now that we know, what do you say we try to DO it? : )
13) We’re Grateful for…
…a $100 gift from WordTruth in Santa Barbara, CA. They wrote, “May God be glorified through your faithfulness and continue ministry in His Name. We appreciate you!” Learn more about their ministry at…
…a $100 from a True Fan in Dallas!
…the $100 blessing we received from a True-blue Fan of Brigada in Lititz, PA! Thank you!
…an additional $100 from the Minnesota Renewal Center in St. Paul. They are a faith-based counseling center providing help for individuals, couples, families, missionaries, pastors, and churches, military personnel and their families and organizational consulting too. Learn more at…
http://www.minnesotarenewal.org/
…a $100 grant from great and long-time friends. God bless you!
…the $25 gift we received from anonymous donors. Thank you!
…a $200 gift from a pair of leaders at One Challenge International, serving pastors and leaders in northeast Brazil. Learn more about their work at…
One Challenge: https://www.onechallenge.org/
…a $25 blessing from a missionary in Indonesia who said she “greatly appreciate the resources highlighted in the weekly Brigada emails. May God continue to bless your ministry.” God bless you!!!
…a $50 gift from an anonymous donor who wrote, “Thanks for your services for the Kingdom.” We’re so grateful. God bless you!
…the $25 gift from “a person who appreciates Brigada” by wanted to remain anonymous. Thank you!
…$50 from a great anonymous friend.
…and the $100 gift from a former IMB worker now living in Texas who wished to remain anonymous. This person has been following Brigada since 1997! God bless you!
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14) The Last Bit: Try Following Brigada and/or Doug on Twitter
The whole Twitter thing pretty much came AFTER Brigada Today was well on its way. So we’ve never done much with it. But, we’ll try — if you’ll help us. If you’ll follow @brigadatoday and/or @douglasklucas, we’ll immediately follow you too. What’s more, we’ll start releasing items via Twitter instead of using the Brigada app. If that works for you, we’ll [quite literally] save nearly $1000/year maintaining the app. Deal? : ) OK. Maybe Twitter will beat the app anyway. : ) Let’s at least try it for a year. Maybe we can generate all the more “community” there. Thanks. You Brigada Today participant friends are the best!
15) Closing Stuff
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2018/12/16 — Brigada Today
Compiled/Edited by Doug Lucas and Tina McCormick, Team Expansion
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In this issue…
1) GRC Mental Health Team Expanding
2) New Book, “Praying for Your Missionary,” Has a Chapter on Agencies
3) Remember ACMC?
4) Are You Using the Brigada App?
5) Did You Ever Stop to Think: God is the Greatest Mobilizer (video)
6) Unpack Your Cross-cultural Experiences at This Reentry/Debriefing
7) PostScanMail Can Help you Make the Jump to Virtual
8) PrayerCast Has Prepared their Annual “You Reign” Year in Review
9) Reaching Japanese for Christ International Conference
10) Zume Just Passes 800th Group and Sixth Language
11) New Book: “More Disciples: A Guide To Becoming & Multiplying…”
12) Midwest Conference on Missionary Care
13) We’re Grateful for…
14) The Last Bit: You Have Given $11,439. Only $5,681 to Reach Budget
15) Closing Stuff
1) GRC Mental Health Team Expanding
T
he demand for GRC services has consistently exceeded capacity during 2018. Beginning January 2019, GRC is expanding their team to meet the growing demand for professional mental health services within the global worker community. Additionally, GRC is transitioning to fee-for-service which provides clients the possibility of submitting to insurance for reimbursement. The objective is to make care affordable for more clients. Learn more at
2) New Book, “Praying for Your Missionary,” Has a Chapter on Agencies
Ed
die Byun has just released a new book, “Praying for Your Missionary,” and it apparently has a chapter dedicated to praying for mission sending agencies. Grab a copy today at…
https://www.amazon.com/Praying-Your-Missionary-Prayers-Nations/dp/0830845569
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