Brigada

So with this edition of Brigada, we wrap up, officially at least, the giving for 2011. The truth is — we can’t begin to thank you… all of you… enough. We’re grateful for those who pray for us, give to make this work possible, and sacrifice to keep us going. Exactly how much came in? [...]

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This past week, I attended my first formal “Vision Seminar” on Community Health Evangelism, commonly known as CHE. Our workers had been utilizing the unique strategy for some time. On several of our fields, CHE had transformed the entire approach. But I had never trained in it myself… until now.   I thought it was [...]

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Seems like, by now, we’d have this down pat. But in a recent conversation with a good friend, his response came back like this: “I fear we are still mobilizing Americans to go to countries where colonialism and recent foreign policy has pretty much burned the bridges for Americans to serve there. People in the [...]

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Several of us have been wrestling with this question now for some time. How do we effectively mobilize nationals to reach their own people groups? One worker wrote, “I fear we are still mobilizing Americans to go to countries where colonialism and recent foreign policy has pretty much burned the bridges for Americans to serve [...]

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In keeping with our theme from last week (population guesses for unreached peoples), we received a note this past week from a worker in the Middle East who wrote, “The majority of the Unengaged Unreached People Groups still on the list don’t prefer the language they are listed as speaking as the language in which [...]

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One of our friends, a worker in the Middle East, wrote this past week, “If we would really stick to the criterion of why a people group makes it onto our list of UPGs in the first place we should follow through and reduce the populations radically lower. The Qashqai for example. They made it [...]

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Today, I’d like to ask you to think with me about an issue that I’m convinced is at the core for many believers and non-believers alike. With believers, it nags at us from the inside out, while, with non-believers, it sometimes becomes a perceived barrier that can stand so tall, it can be large enough [...]

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That was the question that a good friend of Brigada asked this past week. He wrote, “Jackie and I have learned contentment to the point that ‘gift giving’ has become a challenge. What can we buy or make that doesn’t add unwanted clutter to our home, or calories to our waist? If you face this [...]

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When we began 2011, we decided to take a different approach this year for our fundraising. Here’s the BackPage editorial from January 2nd, 2011: Our Gamble — the Fundraising Strategy for 2011 – Each year, we notice that many… maybe *most* givers decide to pitch into Brigada at the end of the year. We’re not [...]

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Since January, 1995, we’ve operated Brigada Today as a free publication. With over 10,000 subscribers, some have said that Brigada just might be the longest-running, largest-circulating missions ezine on the entire web. Yet, some might not realize that we don’t have a large staff, nor do we sell ads. We feel that to do so [...]

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Regardless of how one feels about today’s generation of young people, one has to admire the fact that there are still individuals willing to get involved. Christina and David did that. A student at Asbury University, Christina heard about a woman in Pakistan who was apparently imprisoned for her faith in Jesus. Christina asked her [...]

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I do. My slate has an internal solid state hard drive, but it only holds 64 gig. So I’ve been using a 32 gig SD card (as a “D:” drive) for my “data” hard drive and the original hard disk for my executables — the “C:” drive, as it were. But the other day, our [...]

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The more I get to know missionaries around the world, the more I’m convinced — behind every great missionary or missionary family, there’s an entire crowd of teammates that help make their work effective. For example, there might be any number of … *** Mothers and fathers who possibly raised them to care *** Church [...]

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