Brigada – 2024-04-14

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In this issue…

1) Practical Church Mobilization E-zine
2) A-41: Essays on life and ministry abroad
3) Back on that Free Online Photo-editing Tool
4) Let’s Make a List of the Best Insurance Providers
5) Headed to a Place In Which You Should Encrypt Your Hard Drive?
6) For Your Kids: How to Head Off a Future Porn Habit
7) Looking to Adopt Internationally? Check out These Interviews
8) Thrive Retreat in Cape Town for Cross-Cultural Women in October
9) Sorting Out How to Educate Your Kids Overseas?
10) Olympics are a Great Time for Helping Others Catch the Vision
11) Thought Radio was Dead? Silly You
12) Headed Cross-culturally for a Job Overseas? Try AntiochJourney
13) We’re grateful for…
14) The BackPage: A Morning in the Life of a Nepali Refugee Community
15) Closing Stuff

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Remember a while back, we asked the question, “Why would FotoJet still be free? How will they monetize?” So we contacted the folks at FotoJet and asked them and, as it turns out, they don’t rule out that they might sell out to somebody someday. But for now, the tool is still free — and still top notch. Try it at…

https://www.fotojet.com/

You can make a collage, create a design, edit a photo, resize and crop it, and more. Get started for free today, while you can.

Boy. In the USA, at least, the Affordable Care Act (AFA) has thrown the insurance paradigm topsy-turvy, eh? Let’s collect our senses and try to make a new list of long-term and short-term medical and travel insurance companies. We should also make notes on who seems savvy about the AFA (if in the USA) and which plans don’t seem to care. Somewhere in all this madness, there’s still bound to be at least SOMEONE who can sort out great solutions, right? If you have a contact or a plan that works, please click ‘comment’ after the web version of this item. Thanks in advance for your help.

For a long time, Truecrypt was your best bet. But this past week, when Greg, our I.T. guy at Team Expansion, recommended VeraCrypt, I became curious. Upon checking up on him, I found him to be 100% correct. The open source (and free) software, VeraCrypt…

https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/

should give you everything for which you’ve been looking: 100% security and safety for everything on your hard drive. In fact, it’s actually BETTER than Truecrypt ever dared to be. So if you need encryption (why wouldn’t EVERYONE want it?), you’re in luck!

Some studies have indicated that many adults with addiction to porn were exposed to it at a very young age. Here’s a book, “Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Porn-Proofing Today’s Young Kids,” which hopes to help kids (and the parents who want to educate them) head off that problem early on.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615927335

(Thanks to Jenny for the tip!)

For some reason, it kind of goes with the territory. Couples who live cross-culturally sometimes decide to adopt internationally. Want to read about some others’ experiences in doing so? Thrive has a number of interviews from just such a batch of families. Check out the stories at…

http://thriveconnection.com/?submit=Search&s=adoption

(Thanks again Jenny!)

Thrive is hosting a retreat at the President Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa for U.S. and Canadian women who live and work cross-culturally. Organizers are inviting you to be refreshed, renewed and encouraged October 16-19 or 20-23, 2016. The only cost to you is a registration fee of US $125 and any travel expenses to and from the Retreat. Learn more at…

https://thriveministry.org/retreats/2016/south-africa/attendee