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:-) One good friend of Brigada recently wrote, “Instead of going by the date of what issue it should be and trying to ‘catch up,’ it seems better to simply use the current date, whatever that is. It’s kind of like God’s grace. He doesn’t expect us to dig ourselves out of a hole, but [...]

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Long-time friends of Brigada Today will notice a change in format beginning with this issue. The titles are obviously no longer in all upper case. We’ve made this change due to the news that, apparently, this practice is so common to spammers that some spam filters now search for text in all upper case, relegating [...]

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Please be patient! We might be behind, but we’re undaunted! :-) Be sure and check out the newly refreshed site here at http://www.brigada.org Check out an item and leave a comment or two. Click on the new “Archives (Yr/Mo)” listing… or browse on “Explore” and look at a flat file listing of each item back through 2008 and each [...]

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However, because of the magic of the Internet, you shouldn’t have to change your “favorites” or “bookmarks” because our URL moves with us, of course. So browse around the new site. We hope you’ll find it clean, easily followed, and much easier upon which to make comments. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be rolling [...]

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Enjoyed some nugget in Brigada at one point or another down through the years? If so, please help us spread the word. We constantly find that the best way to grow Brigada is through a simple block of text like this: Hey… have you ever stopped by Brigada? They have a website at:http://www.brigada.org/but the best [...]

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John Lindner of World Christian Ministries issues a free e-mail newsletter, usually weekly, and mostly on topics that relate to indigenous missions of the majority world. A recent two-part series was on evangelism and miracles along the “Old Silk Road.” He also welcomes true stories from or about validated ministries featuring indigenous missionaries. He prefers [...]

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We’re excited about Brigada’s new home at 4112 Old Routt Road, on the outskirts of Louisville, Kentucky. Check it out on the real-time webcam at: http://ehvideo.dyndns.org:4112/view/index.shtml Watch the crowd come in the mornings around 9am for prayer time. See things wrap up around 5pm each day (except Good Friday and weekends, of course :-) ). [...]

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The thing is… they’re *always* available, 24/7. Just use the “tag cloud” (left margin) to search for the item you’re seeking. Or search by date using the unfolding date-edition listing at left, above the tag cloud. You can also search for needle-in-a-haystack words using the whole-text search box above that. Either way, back-issues are always [...]

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This past week, a worker in India wrote to inquire, “Might it be good to run Brigada off of Facebook?” He explained, “I am just experimenting with that for my India email group. I was able to upload my email list in Facebook and it automatically found existing members/friends. Plus, I can invite non members [...]

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Someone might say, “I didn’t know I could…”*** Search 14 years of Brigada back issues? One for each and every week since January 1995. Search for a “needle in a haystack.”*** Use the “In this Issue” as a table of contents with ‘hot links’ so you can jump to each item, then use your “Back” [...]

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2008 was the year we finally switched formats… from the text-heavy web page, more-or-less built with simple HTML code, to the more graphical and tool-assisted format you find now at… http://www.brigada.org/ (If you haven’t stopped by lately, please do check it out. We think you’ll like what we’ve done to the place.) Never mind that [...]

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Before we totally step away from this reflective mood, don’t forget to by honest with yourself about did *not* happen in 2008 Brigada-world.*** We didn’t go out of business or cease operations*** We didn’t resort to “subscriptions” (You can still get it free)*** In the end, we didn’t miss a single issue (though some were, [...]

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Got an item you’d like to see featured in Brigada Today? It’s easy — and it’s free. Just click to: http://www.brigada.org/ and see the menu item up top, “Submit an item.” Please note these often-missed mistakes:*** You no longer have to encode email addresses. We use graphic “pictures” of your email address now, so spammer-harvesters [...]

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