Brigada

On October 1, the memberships of CrossGlobal Link (formerly IFMA) and The Mission Exchange (formerly EFMA) agreed to merge, forming a body representative of 35,000 evangelical missionaries deployed in every country by more than 190 agencies and churches in North America. The new name and brand of the two merged associations is expected to be [...]

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It has been interesting to note recent Brigada dialogue regarding Unreached People Group focus. Barb recently wrote to remind us of two articles that may be of interest. One article written in 2007 by Dr. Kent Parks, is still relevant in answering misconceptions about people-group thinking. Even the statistics seemed to have changed little in [...]

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Some might find it interesting to be able to compare their summer internship count with their peer agencies. It’s a sluggish economy in several sending countries. Perhaps your agency is feeling the brunt of a downturn, … perhaps not. We won’t know for sure until we share. The cool part about this Brigada lense is [...]

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Here’s a worker who has to give a talk on “5 critical agency-missionary issues that will heavily influence your success as a missionary.” It’s an interesting query. Would you be willing to give your opinion? For example, how important is it that the agency provides accountability on language learning, … strategy, … finances? Which of [...]

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Chris from Yakima, WA is developing a ministry on the reservation and wants to know what candidate evaluation programs you would recommend to him for screening missionary candidates to make sure they are ready for ministry and can thrive in a challenging setting. Please record them as a comment by clicking on the link below [...]

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That’s what they say this world map does:http://partners.worldmap.org/ is the latest from the World Missions Atlas Project. It allows you to track all your ministry anywhere in the world. It provides a database for your location’s (ministry offices, etc.) ministry activity, and contacts and maps them for you. You can then download to Google Earth [...]

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That’s Steve’s question. He’s setting up a website to allow people “to easily compare the distinctives of missions sending organisations on about 20 dimensions including funding model, attitude to local church, denomination, team approach, member care policy, preferred length of service etc.” So the questions are: “What ‘dimensions’ do people care about when selecting an [...]

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In this issue… ONLY TWO WEEKS LEFT TO COME UP WITH $9,000 ORAL BIBLE RESOURCES MONGOLIA’S RADIO WIND LEARN CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH HELP COMPILE A LIST OF UPCOMING MISSIONS CONFERENCES TRAINING FOR SHORT-TERM MISSION LEADERS HOW TO SHARE YOUR FAITH LEARN MORE ON HOW TO FORM A MISSION AGENCY YWAM CROSSROADS DISCIPLESHIP TRAINING SCHOOL SMALL PACKAGES: [...]

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In this issue… THANKS FOR THE HELP! GOOGLE DESKTOP SEARCH TOOL COULD BE USED AGAINST YOU DESPERATELY SEEKING HELP SETTING UP AGENCIES ANOTHER ANTI-VIRUS OPTION, BUT THIS ONE’S FREE BALKANS CONSULTATION COMING UP SKYPE IS GREAT FREE ESL EVANGELISM MANUAL FOR IMMIGRANTS SINGAPORE SCHOOL OF FRONTIER MISSION GREAT DEAL ON THE 3COM TRAVEL ROUTER CLOSING [...]

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In this issue… VIDEO TOOLBOX HELPS YOU PREPARE GREAT VIDEOS NEW SPONSORS! IKOBO FUND TRANSFER BEATS WESTERN UNION, OTHERS TIME RUNNING OUT ON OFFER TO BUY BOOK / HELP BRIGADA THE ADVENT OF THE TALKING BIBLE LEARN MORE ABOUT MEDIA IN MISSIONS MORE ON BACKING UP HARVEST NORTH AFRICA (HNA) TIPS FOR DOING PRESS RELEASES [...]

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In this issue… MISSION HELP – FOR MISSIONARY AGENCIES HUMAN RESOURCE AND MISSIONARY TRACKING PROGRAM NEEDED ENGLISH FOR MISSIONARIES (EFM) CD-ROM RECRUITMENT: IS IT EFFECTIVE? CHRISTIAN MISSIONS AND THE KURDS . . . BEFORE SADDAM! ANSWERING ISLAM CD-EDITON NOW AVAILABLE AVIATION MINISTRY IN CENTRAL ASIA WANT TO LEARN HOW TO RAISE FUNDS? LOOKING FOR A [...]

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