Brigada – 2024-04-14

Compiled/Edited by Doug Lucas and Tina McCormick, Team Expansion

In this issue…
1) Get Your TEFL Certificate Online to Teach English Overseas
2) Gather with Lausanne to Learn from Other Researchers
3) Get Trained to Reign and Make Disciples
4) Spiritual Formation 101: …for the Soul, Community, and Neighbor
5) What if You Could Mobilize 1000? (Year-End Gift to Brigada?)
6) Stay in Touch with Your Sheep via FlockNote
7) Want to Help Cross-Cultural Workers Better Care for Each Other?
8) How to Send Money to Philippines (and 66 Other Countries)
9) A Strong Option for a Personal Virtual Private Network (VPN)
10) Who Says an App Can’t Save You?! (ISI’s M28)
11) The Closest Thing We Can Find to an Unreached People Group Bible
12) On Internationalizing Your Agency: Comments by Eldon Porter
13) We’re Grateful for…
14) The Last Bit: In Celebration of New Year’s
15) Closing Stuff

Every three years the Lausanne Movement invites folks involved in mission/church research to learn from one another. That’s what the 8th Lausanne International Researchers’ Conference April 30 – May 4, 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya is all about. If you are an early-career researcher wanting to learn new methods, an agency leader keen to use research for strategy, a Christian researcher with interesting findings to share, and/or just someone doing research who wants to meet others who do the same, visit:

http://globalcmiw.org/lirn

You won’t find this kind of gathering anywhere else!

Training for Reigning will help YOU prepare to make and multiply disciples. Read every word… It’s jam-packed with resources.

http://tridm.org

Wade, the point man, travels globally training key leaders in how to make DMD’s with TWI. (Disciples who make Disciples with Total World Impact as the goal.)

The gifts from this past week were such an encouragement. They added up to $1023.76, raising the total year giving to $11,079.09. We are just $5921 away from making the year’s budget of $17,000. Thank you all so much! But now it’s crunch time. With just a few days left in the year, might you or your church do a $5,921 to finish out the year in the black? Either way, God bless you!!!

If you can help, just click “Donate” at www.brigada.org, or mail a check payable to Team Expansion (Brigada), 13711 Willow Reed Drive, Louisville, KY 40299. Team Expansion is a 501(c)3 incorporation so, for USA citizens, your gift to Christ by writing a check to Team Expansion is tax-deductible. Thank you, in advance, for your partnership!

The book “THEM- The Richer Life Found in Caring for Others” shows how. It was the winner of the Writer’s Digest Best Inspirational Self-published Books of 2016. Author John Certalic from caringforothers.org gives practical examples of how to strengthen and encourage others. Through January 5th [edited] get the book for 25% off its list price by clicking on

https://caringforothers.samcart.com/products/them

entering “Brigada” in the coupon code to get your discount. The Kindle version is also on sale.

Are you trying to send cash to a recipient in an overseas location? How do you make it happen? Is anyone using Xoom?

https://www.xoom.com

With Xoom, you can apparently send money to 67 countries in the world (but apparently not to the USA; you can send FROM the USA — just not back again). And the transfer happens within seconds — and costs like… $5 to send $800. And it’s affiliated with PayPal — and has a 24/7 customer service telephone number. This is what Western Union wishes it would be when it grows up. Has anybody USED Xoom though? Any firsthand reports? If so, please click “Comment” following the web or app version of this item. And thanks in advance for any info. (Note that you could also use the service to pay bills — anywhere in those 67 countries.)