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The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) and Crossroads Christian Communications Inc. (Crossroads) are excited to announce a new partnership that will enhance the voice and message of Christians on the global stage.  The two organizations are collaborating on a new mechanism for communicating international stories from a Christian perspective – a citizen journalist initiative known as [...]

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Equip your people with fundamental, scripture-based skills to become more harmonious and efficient within your team. Reduce the incidence of missionary attrition caused by interpersonal conflict with other missionaries. Christar missionaries experienced in training missionary teams can travel to your location and train intact teams in three three-hour sessions. Call (USA) +1.703.378.7095 or Skype jimandsue2. [...]

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Here’s a great service for anyone wanting to keep in touch while traveling abroad. They provide a Global SIM card that can be used with any GSM Tri or Quad band phone to travel just about anywhere in the world. You will save as much as 90% or more on cellular calls while traveling abroad. [...]

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Our organization is going through a 20 month reinvent and one of the things we hope to accomplish is strengthen the relationship and network that exists between “the home office” and “the field.” So we figured we’d ask… What kinds of processes, technology, etc. does your organization use that promote unity in this area? Just [...]

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I just returned tonight from a trip to the Middle East, primarily in a country that filters Internet access through a national proxy. None of the hotel rooms (that I stayed in) had in-room Internet… so it was Internet cafes for me in each stop. You’ve heard us say before on Brigada — the only [...]

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Hats off to Kathy, for helping us start a thread on Skype security — or the lack thereof. She drew our attention to… http://missionarygeek.blogspot.com/2008/10/skype-monitored-in-china-intra-and.html and from the NY Times, earlier this month …http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/technology/internet/02skype.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 These sites document that skype conversations are both censored AND archived in China…long suspected, but now confirmed.

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Then would you at least try GlobalAirtime.com? First, please give them a look because they have committed to sponsoring Brigada on a regular basis. (They just sent a $50 gift this past week.) Second, they are creating innovative plans designed specifically with cross-cultural workers in mind. For example, check out their product called Celtrek Global [...]

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In this issue…. MISSIONARY CRISIS MANAGEMENT MATERIALS OXFORD MA IN COMMUNICATION PRACTICE STRESS MANAGEMENT OPERATION WORLD CD CORRECTION IMPROVED OPERATION WORLD WEB LINKS OPERATION WORLD WANTS YOU! WANNA’ HELP WITH AN INTERNET SECURITY SURVEY? MUSIC TO REACH UNREACHED PEOPLE GROUPS “COUNTRY NETWORK” MISSION DOMAINS CLOSING STUFF MISSIONARY CRISIS MANAGEMENT MATERIALS This is a horrific, but [...]

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