Brigada – 2024-03-31

By the way, in our last edition, we published the item, “How to Find a Scripture in Any Language,” we meant most available, digitally accessible translations (especially digitally accessible). So sorry if someone thought we were implying they were all finished. (But … just stand by until around 2050, and then my correction will no longer be needed, we hope and trust and pray!!!) Again, that link was…

http://www.Find.Bible

The actual number of translations finished is always viewable at…

http://www.wycliffe.net/en/statistics

We recently met with Jon Hirst, the Director at GMI. See their Missiographics page at…

http://www.gmi.org/services/missiographics/

You can download — and/or hire them to do a service for you. Either way, you won’t go wrong. (Thanks Barb, for bubbling this up to us again.)

Here’s your chance to accomplish two objectives with one visit; See Dearborn (arguably the most Arabized city in the USA) while learning about the refugee problem — and how to help with it. It’s all set for Saturday Oct. 8th 2016. Entitled, “A Hope and a Future for Refugees: How can the Media Arts galvanize our response? A Community Forum,” this special conference will take place at the Caroline Kennedy Library Dearborn Heights, Michigan. Sponsored by Sabeel Media, you can register and learn more here…

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-hope-and-a-future-for-refugees-a-community-forum-tickets-27071690154

A long-time Brigada participant asked, this past week, “One potential vital resource, which I can’t see examples of, is free downloadable Sunday School lessons for children, possibly including printable activity sheets, which would be suitable for children in the Majority World, rather than being geared for Western children in terms of content and language level. Do you know of anything like this? Unfortunately, we haven’t heard of much of anything like that. Can anyone suggest a lead? (And Tony, thanks for asking.)

Morton Security Solutions continues to grow and train more and more Faith Based Organizations in good and practical security principles while traveling on mission. They have offered us an inside look at what one of their seminars looks like as well as written literature that outlines part of their training. You can also see first hand at…

and you can download the handout here:

http://media.wix.com/ugd/4c1fde_b91a1d0e059347b9b68c42314c5e1575.pdf.

Today we picked up a guidebook called, “How to Run and Maintain a Sustainable Group Health Plan.” In this post-Obamacare environment, guidebooks like this (and associated web pages) can be extremely helpful. It includes items like, Sustainability, stewardship and How-To Maintain an Efficient/Well-run Health Plan, How to run your health plan in a good efficient way, For Smaller groups or smaller in USA with local national staff, Those opting out of your plan – How to get them to participate again, Counting and serving Local Nationals, “We have a good plan, a good carrier, and a good broker – What should we do now?” It seems very helpful. To get a copy, just email
moreinfo@gninsurance.com
with subject line, “send group insurance guide”

Wonder no more. The Zwemer Center is now featuring a free article by Dr. Warren Larson entitled, “Islam’s Public and Private Face.” Find it here…

http://www.zwemercenter.com/islams-public-and-private-face/

Dr. Larson exposes the inside scoop — which will help us understand the undercurrents beneath the storm.

The Coalition on the Support of Indigenous Ministries (COSIM) exists as a forum for sharing, encouraging and developing best-practices in partnering and supporting our brothers and sisters to advance the gospel in their nation and region. They do an annual conference — and that conference is happening beginning the evening of Oct 10 until noon on the 12th at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, VA. Learn more at…

www.cosim2016.org

…to Go International for the $30 gift they sent to move their item forward in the queue. Thanks GO!
…a $15 gift from the Global Counseling Network.
…a $75 gift from Visual Story International. God bless you!

If you’d like to send a monthly (or one-time) check, just mail the 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.

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We revisit this from time to time. But an executive director of a non-profit wrote this past week to ask, “As a small mission organization with a very bare bones office in the United States, we need all the help we can get so we can get funds where they are most needed in the nations and places that need the Gospel. One of the areas we really need help is finding a very simple, user friendly Donor Management Software System that would easily interface with our website and enable us to: cultivate our donor base, integrate with social media, send out receipts, create reports etc. …What do you hear from the people on the ground? What recommendations could you give us? I would really value your input.” Let’s don’t let Diane down. Please — what’s your best donor management software? We mentioned CiviCRM, which our office is trying to configure — but honestly, unless your non-profit has a full-time I.T. guy, I wonder if you really want to try this. (We do have a full-time I.T. guy and, honestly, we’re still not fully up and running with it.) We also recommended the Rock RMS…

https://www.rockrms.com/

You can get RockRMS hosted. See some sample partners here..

https://www.rockrms.com/Rock/Book/3

There’s Blackbaud, eTapestry, DonorPerfect, and many others. Which is the best for a small non-profit? Your thoughts? (Please click “Comment” immediately following the web version of this item.)