Brigada

Here’s a chance for you — or someone you know — to have a major building named after you/them. Around Christmastime, Lord willing, Brigada will be moving out to a new missions campus in Louisville known as “Emerald Hills.” Learn more about it at: http://www.emeraldhills.info/ So here’s the deal: The building Brigada will be occupying [...]

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I’ve been struck lately by what a powerful tool we have here now, in the form of the Internet in general and these “Comments” on Brigada in particular. In the old days, someone would volunteer to act as a compiler for a special subject. We’d all send our emails to him/her and, with any luck, [...]

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From Manila to Minneapolis to Mooresville to Moscow, from Smyrna to Sofia to San Luis Rey to Salisbury, from Pretoria to Paoli to Pristina to Perth, from Xochitepec to San-Ch’Ung to Tbilisi to Lahore to Kampala to Abidjan to Oaxaca to Nairobi to Geneva, and yes, contrary to what Billy Crystal would have us think, [...]

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We hope you like what we’ve done to the place at: http://www.brigada.org/ As this email goes out the door, we’ve now finished transferring all 13 years worth of Brigada Today editions into the new “Web 2.0″ format. You can search by text, by date, or by tag. (See the fancy “drop down” menu when searching [...]

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We have heard a chorus of voices… and most were loud and clear: “Please give us back the ‘old’ Brigada!” :-) If you were enjoying our experiments at HTML- and graphics-encoding, you were apparently in the minority. :-) So we’re back this week with the same format that has characterized Brigada since it began Jan. [...]

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In November, 1994, Doug Lucas was asked to serve as President of “Envision ’96″, a global missions conference which was to occur in Lexington, KY, Nov. 4-6, 1996. In the run-up to this event, Doug and his sidekick, Eric Derry, conducted focus groups throughout the country to discern how the convention might best serve the [...]

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