Thanks to…
Mission Network, Mount Vernon WA, a Golden Fan of Brigada, for the gift of $100 this past month and to…
Our faithful friends in Smithtown, NY, True Fans of Brigada, who just sent $100. Because of these and other gifts like them, notice that both the email version and the online (web) version of Brigada are absolutely ad-free — 100%. No Google ads, no banner ads, no NOTHING to slow you down. God bless them — please.

If you’d like to join in with a gift or gifts to undergird Brigada, just navigate to …

http://www.brigada.org

then click “Donate” in the upper right and follow the instructions. By the way, you don’t need a PayPal account to give. If you reach a screen asking for your PayPal I.D., look on the left side of the screen, about halfway down, and find the prompt which says, “Continue without a PayPal Account.” If you’d rather send an old-fashioned check, just make it payable to Team Expansion and send it to:
Team Expansion (Brigada),
11327 Jefferson Trace Blvd.,
Louisville, KY 40291
USA
(And by the way, Team Expansion is a 501(c)3 incorporation so for USA citizens, your checks made out to Team Expansion are tax-deductible.)

*** Our Brigada participant from Richfield, MN who just sent $50 to Christ’s global work through Brigada. Thank you!!!

If you’d like to join in with a gift or gifts to undergird Brigada, just navigate to …

http://www.brigada.org

then click “Donate” in the upper right and follow the instructions. By the way, you don’t need a PayPal account to give. If you reach a screen asking for your PayPal I.D., look on the left side of the screen, about halfway down, and find the prompt which says, “Continue without a PayPal Account.” If you’d rather send an old-fashioned check, just make it payable to Team Expansion and send it to:

Team Expansion (Brigada),
11327 Jefferson Trace Blvd.,
Louisville, KY 40291
USA

(And by the way, Team Expansion is a 501(c)3 incorporation so for USA citizens, your checks made out to Team Expansion are tax-deductible.)

*** For $29.39, given by originators of the Clearbrook water Filter, available at

http://www.911water.com/clearbrook-water-filter-bottles-s/266.htm

*** For a $30 gift from Go International! We appreciate your gift!

*** For a $50 gift from Kingdom Come Training! Thanks for your help getting workers geared up, both through your training, as well as through your gift to Brigada!

*** For a $100 gift from Mission Network, now in Mount Vernon, WA. For these gifts and for the gift of prayer and encouragement, thank you!!!

… for the friend in Little Rock, AR, who sent $50 to undergird Brigada. We’re inspired and encouraged to go on! Thank you!

… for Cornerstone University and their TESL program for an encouraging gift of $100. Learn more about them at…

http://www.cornerstone.edu/tesol-program

If you’d like to join in with a gift or gifts to undergird Brigada, just navigate to …

http://www.brigada.org

then click “Donate” in the upper right and follow the instructions. By the way, you don’t need a PayPal account to give. If you reach a screen asking for your PayPal I.D., look on the left side of the screen, about halfway down, and find the prompt which says, “Continue without a PayPal Account.” If you’d rather send an old-fashioned check, just make it payable to Team Expansion and send it to:

Team Expansion (Brigada),
11327 Jefferson Trace Blvd.,
Louisville, KY 40291
USA

(And by the way, Team Expansion is a 501(c)3 incorporation so for USA citizens, your checks made out to Team Expansion are tax-deductible.)

Hats off to the above-and-beyond “True Fan” of Brigada in Virginia for empowering Brigada forward with a $150 gift this past week! The partner wrote, “I appreciate you as a long time beneficiary of the information, insight, and resources you provide through Brigada. My wife & I are currently mobilizing our church and community by coordinating a Perspectives class  (www.perspectives.org) with the hope to see effective outreach to internationals locally and a strategic effort by our congregation to reach an unreached and unengaged people group with the Gospel.  Thank you for your help in exposing God’s heart to my own!” God bless you!!! By sending this gift, this True Fan helped empower us to send out Brigada to thousands of users to virtually every nation all over the planet. Thank you!

We also received $34.85 from Insurance Services of America…

http://www.missionaryhealth.net/brigada

They provide insurance plans for those who need international health, and travel insurance, as well as those who want to be reimbursed if their travel plans change or are interrupted by anything in any way. I’ve had to collect before — and it works.

If you’d like to join in with a gift or gifts to undergird Brigada, just navigate to …

http://www.brigada.org

then click “Donate” in the upper right and follow the instructions. By the way, you don’t need a PayPal account to give. If you reach a screen asking for your PayPal I.D., look on the left side of the screen, about halfway down, and find the prompt which says, “Continue without a PayPal Account.” If you’d rather send an old-fashioned check, just make it payable to Team Expansion and send it to:

Team Expansion (Brigada),
11327 Jefferson Trace Blvd.,
Louisville, KY 40291
USA

(And by the way, Team Expansion is a 501(c)3 incorporation so for USA citizens, your checks made out to Team Expansion are tax-deductible.)

Thanks to W.I.N. Ministries in Harlingen, TX, for empowering Brigada forward with a $25 gift this past week! God bless you!!

Hats off to the Brigada participant from Fort Washington, PA, a above and beyond “True Fan” of Brigada, for sending a $150 gift this past week. By sending this gift, this True Fan helped empower us to send out Brigada to thousands of users to virtually every nation all over the planet. Thank you! If you’d like to join in, just navigate to …

http://www.brigada.org

then click “Donate” in the upper right and follow the instructions. By the way, you don’t need a PayPal account to give. If you reach a screen asking for your PayPal I.D., look on the left side of the screen, about halfway down, and find the prompt which says, “Continue without a PayPal Account.” If you’d rather send an old-fashioned check, just make it payable to Team Expansion and send it to:

Team Expansion (Brigada),
11327 Jefferson Trace Blvd.,
Louisville, KY 40291
USA

(And by the way, Team Expansion is a 501(c)3 incorporation so for USA citizens, your checks made out to Team Expansion are tax-deductible.)

Thanks to recent Brigada friends who have sent $25, $100, $25, $153, $30, $100, $100. These gifts total $533 and raise our 2012 gift total to $14,499, just $2620 short of our 2012 budget needs. We have one more week to receive goals for 2012. If you or your church would like to pitch in, we’d be extremely grateful. But either way, after next edition, we keep quiet about money until November 2013. We give praise to God for the way people have pitched in. We ALMOST have enough, finally, to engage an assistant to help us part-time. Maybe then (beginning in March?), we can finally stop running behind all the time! Again, thank you!!! If you’d like to donate during this final week for 2012, just navigate to …

http://www.brigada.org

then click “Donate” in the upper right and follow the instructions. By the way, you don’t need a PayPal account to give. If you reach a screen asking for your PayPal I.D., look on the left side of the screen, about halfway down, and find the prompt which says, “Continue without a PayPal Account.” If you’d rather send an old-fashioned check, just make it payable to Team Expansion and send it to:

Team Expansion (Brigada),
11327 Jefferson Trace Blvd.,
Louisville, KY 40291
USA

(And by the way, Team Expansion is a 501(c)3 incorporation so for USA citizens, your checks made out to Team Expansion are tax-deductible.)

… for Asbury United Methodist, in Tulsa, who sent $200 to undergird Brigada on behalf of unreached peoples throughout the globe. Thanks!!!
… for $115 from South Dakota! God bless you!
… for $100 from an anonymous “True Fan” of Brigada. Thanks!
… for $50 from a worker invested in ministry among children at risk in Thailand. God bless you for your gift and your service.
… for a gift of $25 from Michigan and another $25 from Pennsylvania!

…for a $50 gift on behalf of the Qashqa’i Partnership. Please pray for these nomads of Iran. Learn more at…

http://www.joshuaproject.net/people-profile.php?peo3=14497&rog3=IR

…for $100 from True Fan of Brigada, Greg, and the folks at Anda Leadership, who wrote that they are grateful for Brigada! We’re grateful for you!

…for $20 from a missionary in Ecuador. God bless you!

…for $50 from the Community of Mission Information Workers (CMIW). Thanks!

…for $50 from workers with the website, uttermostsports.org (Thanks!)

…for $50 from a good friend in Tucson. God bless you.

…for a gift of $50 from a pair of great friends of Brigada from NE Indiana. Thank you!

…for $100 from a “True Fan” of Brigada from the Lone Star State! God bless you.

…for the $100 gift from Bill, a True Fan of Brigada, who serves with Mission ConneXion Northwest. He enclosed a note that read, “Doug, Well, thank YOU so much! You guys do a great work! I was a missions pastor for 15 years during which time I had the vision that has become Mission ConneXion.  We always want to encourage those who are on the ‘front lines’ of the mobilizing effort, and you certainly are! I wish this were more.  My friend Jerry of Kingdom Come Training here re-pointed me in your direction when we did our “Support ConneXion” training event with them this last September as we got the word out through Brigada and what we only thought would be a small event, turned out to draw people from a 3-state region.  Then we did Muslim ConneXIon partnering with Fouad (of Crescent Project in October), and again promoted the event with you – and it was our largest “ConneXion” training event ever.  We intend to have more ConneXion events in 2013 – after our big January 18-19 annual Mission ConneXion Northwest event, and we will continue to partner with you.  Thank you for putting us in touch with those who are changing the world for Jesus through their prayer and sacrifice.  Best wishes for a great Christmas and Thank You again!

In Christ,

Bill

(Thanks so much for the encouraging words, Bill!)

Bucket Brigade

This is a special time of the year at Brigada. And these are special people. Our deepest thanks go out to…

• *** An SIL member from Dallas who sent $50. (Thank you!)
• *** A WEC Australia friend of Brigada who wrote, “Hi Doug, Just a quick note to let you know that the mobilisation team of WEC in Australia just sent Brigada a gift for $50, we value the work you put in and we use, share and enjoy many of the resources you seek out for us. So thanks – praying for your ministry, Mobilisation Team, WEC Australia.” (Thank you!)
• *** A worker in Singapore, a “True Fan of Brigada,” who sent $100 (Thank you!)

To these and all who give to God through Brigada, we appreciate you! This brings our 2012 total to $7277, meaning we have just $9843 remaining to cover our expense budget for the year. There are just 6 editions left in the year. Yikes. That means we’ll have to average 16 or 17 gifts per week, assuming each giver sends $100 (becoming a “True Fan of Brigada.” What about designating a gift from your local church? Would you be willing to ask your missions committee or missions team to send a $100 gift, or maybe cover the gifts of 5 churches in Africa who, though they read and enjoy Brigada and its resources, can’t afford to send a gift at this time? The truth is, a gift of any size would help. It’s easy. Just click “Donate” in the upper right and follow the instructions. By the way, you don’t need a PayPal account to give. If you reach a screen asking for your PayPal I.D., look on the left side of the screen, about halfway down, and find the prompt which says, “Continue without a PayPal Account.” If you’d rather send an old-fashioned check, just make it payable to Team Expansion and send it to: Team Expansion (Brigada), 11327 Jefferson Trace Blvd., Louisville, KY 40291 USA (And by the way, Team Expansion is a 501(c)3 incorporation so for USA citizens, your checks made out to Team Expansion are tax-deductible.)

This is a special time of the year at Brigada. And these are special people:

The Harvest Group, Redwood City, CA, who gave $22.62 (Thank you!!!)
World Outreach Missions, who gave $200 (Thank you!!!)
An anonymous donor who loves unreached people sent $25. Thank you!!!
An anonymous donor from Live Oak, FL, who sent $20. (Thank you!!!)
An anonymous donor from Oklahoma who shared $50 (Thank you!!!)
A mobilizer from Wycliffe who also shared $50, giving praise to the Lord that the language communities needing translation is at an all-time low (1966), and the number of language communities with translation underway is at an all-time high (2076)! Amen!

To these and all who give to God through Brigada, we appreciate you!

For the people who make the Brigada world go around!

*** From World Outreach Missions, we just received a gift for $200! God be praised. May He bless their ministry abundantly!!!

*** From MissionConnexion.com. Here’s hoping that their event this past weekend was a huge success… and may God bless them in the future. Learn more at…

http://missionconnexion.com/muslim-connexion

*** From Kingdom Come Training, a $50 gift — God bless you…

http://www.kingdomcometraining.com

A gift of $41.43 from Logos Bible Software as a way of saying thanks to Brigada for referrals and recommendations sent their way. If you’re interested in Bible software, you might never find anything better than Logos. Learn more at…

http://www.logos.com/Brigada