2008/12/28 — Brigada Today
“Brigada: Since 1995… Buckets full of Resources, Trends, Challenges — all in a weekly e-zine & website…”Compiled by Doug Lucas, Team Expansion, Louisville, KY(Almost caught up!)In this...
Read MoreMonth: December 2008
1) Welcome To The Ultimate Catch-Up Brigada
Thanks for your patience as we caught up during the Brigada Today Marathon 2008! Resolution for 2009: [drum roll] Try our best to stay on time. (Those that have been on board since 1995 are saying, “Yeah right.” :-)...
Read More2) Some Of The Most Talked-About Brigada Items Of 2008
Honest… we’re not trying to be self-serving. It’s more like… “Remember back when…” The truth is, during the next couple of days, you’ll see so many “top ten lists”...
Read MoreCOOL TOOLS FOR TRAVEL
Without a doubt, the Brigada story that seemed to garner the most interest was the series we did on “Cool Tools” for traveling missionaries. See the refreshed version, which we’ll try to keep up to date in the...
Read More4) Switching To "The New Format Brigada"
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…https://brigada.org/(If you...
Read More5) Tremendous Surge In "Holistic Outreaches"
Medical, developmental, urban, and job-wise… Brigada participants in 2008 yearned for real change in people. Whenever we would mention church planting, folks would be glad. (51 “tags” for 2008.) But when we...
Read More6) Missionary-Types Love Their Tools
Some 200 items dealing with technology (VPNs, for example), Facebook, webinars, another couple of hundred on training, dozens more on software, … the list goes on. The missionary enterprise (and Brigada in particular) seem...
Read More7) We Learned The "Bam" Wasn’t Just A Noise
Business as Missions (and tentmaking) are definitely at the top of the heap of topics these days. The previous nice-and-neat little titles and “boxes” that helped us divide “Missions” from “secular...
Read More8) The Year Orality Swept Through Like A Storm
Storytelling has been around long before Jesus walked through the gates of Jerusalem. It was just that… in 2008… the rest of the church seemed to pick up on the fact that storytelling (“Orality”) made...
Read More9) All Those "Boxes" In The Opening Ceremony Of The Olympics
We saw the Chinese exemplify unity of thought & motion like never before. (Remember all those “refrigerator boxes?”) Sure, there was some degree of discussion as to *why* the team was so good. But overall, we...
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