Curious About What Will Happen with North Korea?
So are we. So is practically everyone? If it comes to war, it could be ugly. Here’s what some experts at the BBC came up with:
Web Hosting in West Africa
Here’s a faithful Brigada participant who will be conducting a communications-visual storytelling seminar in West Africa in November and he knows the question will come up about churches and ministries that use Social Media and have their own web sites. So my question is, do ministries in West Africa use local web (webbing?) hosting services, and if so, which are the best ones with reasonable fees? If not, what are the alternatives? Any leads? Just please click “Comment” following the web version of this item. Thanks for any help you can give.
We’re Grateful for…
… Horizons International’s Legacy Conference: Liberty to the Captives, May 31-June 2, 2018 at Reach International Church, in Dearborn, Michigan. The conference sent $100 this past week to speed Brigada on its way. Learn more and register at…
http://www.legacyconference.org/
… the folks at Christian Prayer Resources, who sent $50 this past week. God bless you! They’re building an amazing group of resources at…
The Last Bit: We Need to Read the Terms Before we Act [edited]
At Missio Nexus, we were impressed by the speakers who were using…
to allow audience members to respond to a talk anonymously. The speaker just puts the link on the screen and waits for feedback from the audience.
Of course, one could potentially make the argument that PollEv.com servers are capturing your cell phone number (if you use the text response feature. But there’s an easy fix for that: If you’re uncomfortable handing out your cell number to a 3rd party, just use your cell phone’s web browser to respond. Even so, handing your cell number over to a 3rd party doesn’t hand them a credit card or any other personal information anyway, so the risk is actually fairly low anyway. Either way, PollEv’s privacy policy goes beyond the norm anyway. And their CEO is a trusted friend of known friends of Brigada. (He responds below, in fact, to an earlier version of this post.) Obviously, their business could be sold someday, but it doesn’t sound like that’s their goal. And even if they sell, they’ve pledged to go to the mat to persuade the buyers to maintain ethical privacy. We wish more apps went to such lengths! Well done, PollEv.com! Please forgive our earlier doubts about the downsides of this polling app. It’s a cool feature with lots of promise for immediate feedback — especially if users can utilize their web browsers to respond. We apologize for any hurt caused by our original skepticism, which was written only from the vantage point of someone who looked at the app from a superficial level. Now that we have these assurances, we can’t wait to try PollEv.com ourselves!
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In this issue…
1) Christian Outreach Resources for Children
2) Perspectives – Yes, You Should Take It!
3) What’s the Best Way to Help the Rohingya?
4) Scatter Global Hopes to Train and Link Global BAM Workers
5) By 2050, 30% of the World Will Live in Rural Areas & Villages
6) When I Grow Up, I Want to Make Maps Like These
7) Ethno LA Raises the Bar for Studies on Megacities
8) Galactic Communications Gets Good Marks for Security AND Service
9) Rumors About Christianity Failing Last Week Largely Misunderstood
10) Great List of Missions-focused Churches
11) The Answer is: (How Many Missions Pastors are there?)
12) How to Use New Media to Engage the Unreached
13) We’re Grateful for…
14) The Last Bit: Nabil Qureshi (1983-2017)
15) Closing Stuff
Christian Outreach Resources for Children
Group of children
Learn how to effectively minister to children through a variety of ways. Start reaching out to children by using a variety of skits, games, and a lot more. Improve the children’s ministry of your church by using different tools and resources. Effective outreach ministry starts by learning and using the right tools. Visit Christian Outreach Resources for Children at
http://childrensoutreachresources.com
They will lead you to the website that will help improve your ministry to kids.
Perspectives – Yes, You Should Take It!
Perspectives has reached thousands of believers nationally and worldwide with the revelation of God’s global purpose for His glory to be known among all peoples. It transcends ethnocentric ideas about gospel penetration and mission, and exposes a fresh and timeless message of hope for all peoples in all nations and affecting all generations. On-site courses begin January 2017, and online courses begin each month. For more information, go to
What’s the Best Way to Help the Rohingya?
FILE – In this June 13, 2012 file photo, a Rohingya Muslim man who fled Myanmar to Bangladesh to escape religious violence, cries as he pleads from a boat after he and others were intercepted by Bangladeshi border authorities in Taknaf, Bangladesh. She is known as the voice of Myanmar’s downtrodden but there is one oppressed group that Aung San Suu Kyi does not want to discuss. For weeks, Suu Kyi has dodged questions on the plight of a Muslim minority known as the Rohingya, prompting rare criticism of the woman whose struggle for democracy and human rights in Myanmar have earned her a Nobel Peace Prize, and adoration worldwide. (AP Photo/Anurup Titu, File)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=449&v=-TezCbjmruMRohingya
So what’s your opinion on why or how the public is missing out on this suffering? (Maybe they’re distracted by other catastrophes elsewhere?) And have you heard of any great way to be of service to them?
Scatter Global Hopes to Train and Link Global BAM Workers
Thinking about trying a job overseas for the sake of the Kingdom? Try…
https://www.scatterglobal.com/
They hope to train you, connect you to the big picture network, then coach you toward success. Join us in giving thanks that there are more networks like these available to worldwide workers across the planet.
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