Brigada

Brigada participant, Allan, recommends handmade goods from Afar Imports http://www.afarimports.com According to Allan, they are an importer that helps international companies of all kinds in many hard-to-reach places sell their products in the USA.  He had met them personally at a recent conference. Shop online, find unique gifts, and support global workers all at the [...]

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Do you desire to use your business skills in reaching the unreached? Would you like to be actively involved in helping transform a remote area of the world? Are you willing to share your work expertise via email coaching? Are you seeking to export your goods or services overseas? Or import goods or services? If [...]

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Mark, a missionary to Haitians, suggests an easy to maintain home business where the foundation of your income is through you and others shopping online. Visit Mark’s web portal at http://www.shoptoearn.net/reachhaiti to see what it’s like (and to shop to there to help reach Haiti, if you’re not interested in starting your own business). To [...]

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Catch the next GO Equipped TENTmaking course in Fort Myers, Florida, February 25 – March 1, 2009. The location is Fort Myers Florida USA, and the purpose is to learn about tentmaking missions & Business as Mission (BAM). This conference is designed for anyone wanting to investigate tentmaking, for anyone wanting to go as a [...]

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Business as Missions (and tentmaking) are definitely at the top of the heap of topics these days. The previous nice-and-neat little titles and “boxes” that helped us divide “Missions” from “secular jobs” suddenly dissolved in 2008. Now, everything is so muddy… it’s hard to tell where our secular job ends and mission begins.

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Are you a BAM implementer that needs a ready-made plan to launch a new business? Stop at http://www.bplans.com/ If they can’t help you, at least you might get inspired by all the samples — to write your own! :-)

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For those ministering to the poor in Africa, Asia and Latin America, the Chalmers Center offers a series of three distance courses on conducting Christian microfinance and microenterprise. The initial course is called Foundations and Principles of Holistic Ministry (International Ministry Track). The Foundations course helps you understand appropriate goals and strategies for conducting Christian [...]

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You’re saying, “Duh.” Yes, I knew that business as missions was a hot topic. But I had no idea just *how* hot until this past weekend when I called in favors from 3 co-workers in Team Expansion to help me lead a workshop on the topic at a major missions mobilization event in Tulsa, OK [...]

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GLOBAL Opportunities and TENT are planning future course locations and need your input. They are receiving requests from many countries to run their intensive 30 session courses but are limited by a small team of committed teachers to running only five courses per year, it would really help them if they knew where students would [...]

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Chapin Living Waters exists to help poor people in third world countries grow vegetables when there is insufficient rain. They offer simple, sustainable technologies for subsistence farming, bringing hope to the poorest people and the opportunity to solve their own problems. Their simple “Bucket Kit” can be a tool for outreach and church planting. Check [...]

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It’s that time of year again when TENT Norway runs its annual TENTmaking Business as Mission course for those investigating tentmaking and for active tentmakers looking for encouragement, vision building and adding tools to their ministry toolbox. You will hear from experienced tentmakers, develop your own plan for ministry in the hard places and how [...]

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In this issue… SOUNDS OF GLOBAL WORSHIP NOW ON YOUTUBE ADOPT-A-TERRORIST FOR PRAYER A BRIEF TENT-MAKERS SURVEY SHARING CHRIST MINISTRIES WEBSITE SHIP OR MOVE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD PERSPECTIVES WEBSITE GIVES ANSWERS BUSINESS AS MISSION CONFERENCE SOBERED BY THOSE WHO MAKE BRIGADA POSSIBLE CORRECTION ON “HELP MISSIONARIES SERVING ON THE FIELD” CAN YOU VAULT US [...]

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In this issue… SPECIAL DISCOUNT ON BIBLE SOFTWARE MEMBER CARE AND UNREACHED PEOPLE GROUPS: THE WEB SITE VOLUNTEER WITH OR UTILIZE “MISSION NANNYS” MISSION TRIP SECURITY COSIM: VISION IN CROSS-CULTURAL PARTNERSHIPS ENHANCE YOUR SUPPORT LETTERS SPECIAL: THE LATEST WEA-MISSION COMMISSION BOOK COMPOSE FOR MOMENTUM MAGAZINE TEACH ENGLISH, GERMAN OR SWEDISH IN THAILAND OPPORTUNITIES FOR INT’L [...]

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