Brigada – 2024-04-14

Here’s what appears to be a complete guidebook to “Ministering in Honor-Shame Cultures: Biblical Foundations and Practical Guidelines (InterVarsity Press). Jayson Georges and Mark Baker offer a firm theological foundation and many practical examples. Chapter 7 “Relationships” is available as a free PDF to download and share.
http://honorshame.com/book/

This Thanksgiving, would you consider making an offering gift to Brigada? If you can, please do what you can to come up with a $100 gift to help for those who would LIKE to partner with Brigada but can’t. Then on November 14th, just 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 through Team Expansion is tax-deductible. If you’d rather give online, just click “Donate” in the upper right corner at brigada.org . In advance, please hear us when we say, “Thank you!” And God bless!!!

When we made the quiet jump from iContact to MailChimp a couple of weeks ago, we tested the “look and feel” in MailChimp and sought out a design that would, as much as possible, emulate the model we had been using for years in iContact with the hopes that the jump would be so seamless that few, if anyone, would even know that we changed email service providers. But last week, a very much-appreciated Brigada participant forwarded us her copy and it looked like a royal MESS. We were so embarrassed. The weird thing is — viewing the version that WE received in our OWN email clients is a completely different experience. It looks PERFECT. Would you help us please? If your Brigada is a mixed-up mess, please let us know in a comment following the web version of this item, and, if you’re savvy about email protocol or if you speak MailChimp, would you please help us diagnose the difficulty? Thanks a million. We meant well, honest. : ) (And, thanks Holly.)

Have you ever felt a tension between the mobilization folks and the member care folks? Jonathan Trotter, an overseas worker and writer for A Life Overseas, examines this tension and seeks to balance the two. What do you think? Are both necessary? How have you seen these two balanced (or not) in churches or mission organizations? Please jot a note in the comments following the web version of this item. Thanks.
Read the article here:

http://www.alifeoverseas.com/its-not-all-about-war-balancing-our-kingdom-rhetoric/

Kitty Purgason of Biola announces the publication of _Professional Guidelines for Christian English Teachers: How to be a Teacher with Convictions while Respecting those of your Students_.

https://missionbooks.org/products/detail/professional-guidelines-for-christian-english-teachers

One of the key themes she addresses is how to be both committed followers of Jesus and ethical TESOL professionals. Long overdue.

Caleb wrote this past week to point us toward a brand new offering from Microsoft called “Teams.” We aren’t quite clear on their pricing model yet. (It didn’t seem terribly obvious?) But it did indeed look like a new product — kind of a cross between Facebook, Podio, and a group Task List? Check it out at…

https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software

They blogged about it here…

https://blogs.office.com/2016/11/02/introducing-microsoft-teams-the-chat-based-workspace-in-office-365/

And please let us know what you think in the comments below. And if you can find pricing, please point us to it. Thanks! (And thanks, Caleb!)

We received a note this past week asking if we had any recommendations for a software or service that would help with scheduling. The mission executive, Trevor, asked for something “to organize quarterly new missionary orientations so that each participant gets scheduled to meet with each department and individual that needs to see them in a limited time frame.” So he’s looking for something like SignupGenius, only with a kind of recurring database format? Shew. We didn’t know. We thought for a moment about Doodle but then ended up sending him to SignupGenius, but he was unimpressed. His response was that he felt like it would take forever to recreate each quarter. Your thoughts? Please comment below the web version of this item. Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Good Neighbor Insurance recently released a free beautiful 40-page Travel Safety Guide which details strategies dealing with unlawful detainment by border patrol or the police; What to do if kidnapped; Data security overseas; How to avoid being robbed and much more. You can get it free as well as their “Definitive Guide to Jet Lag” and their “Top Three Risks when Traveling Overseas” at

https://www.gninsurance.com/free-guide-on-travel-safety-overseas/.

The global missions community has become increasingly aware of issues about honor and shame. This global Honor-Shame Conference on theme “Honor, Shame and the Gospel: Reframing Our Message for 21st Century Ministry” is the first ever global gathering to discuss and learn about these critical issues. Held at Wheaton College (suburban Chicago) on June 19-21, this conference features several world-class speakers and 28 excellent workshops.
https://honorshame-conference.com/

A group of counselors has created

http://www.cleanseyour2016.com

to help Americans process the events of the 2016 election cycle. The website will encourage inward reflection designed to move people toward peace, healing, and relational reconciliation following a protracted and divisive election cycle. The pathway to healing created by these counselors includes the following four facets of reflection: Facing Wounds, Turning from Anger, Mending Relationships and Moving Forward with Hope.