Month: September 2016

Compiled/Edited by Doug Lucas and Tina McCormick, Team Expansion Brigada online has more graphics and links at https://brigada.org — In this issue… 1) The “BackPage” is no more: Enter “The Last...

Recently, a bunch of bad guys have given the term “The Backpage” a bad name. As a result, beginning with this edition of Brigada, we officially change the name of our “back page” to “The Last...

ConnecTEFL is an affordable 15 week, 120 hour teaching English as a foreign language certification program. The course can be taken in-class in Memphis, TN or online anywhere in the world. The certificate meets the globally...

Mission Smart addresses serious gaps in the mission mobilization process and offers fresh solutions for seeing less missionary attrition. It’s for overseas ministry candidates, church leaders, and mission agency staff. The...

Mason, a worker with Crossworld, recently joined students from Evangelical Theological Seminary of Port-au-Prince to continue the process of rebuilding parts of Haiti still suffering from the 2010 earthquake. But they got an...

Our inquiry into this question last week elicited input from Deanna, Jonathan, and Barbara (among others), resulting in these great sources: For those working in Francophone Africa (free of charge!):...

Brigada user Bill McClure or Gospel Broadcasting Mission encouraged us to consider it in a recent inquiry we did on constituency relationship management (CRM) and donor relationship software. Start with a $39/month cost for an...

Saw tons of you at MissioNexus. Brigada, for its part, doesn’t usually do an exhibit at these events. We’re too busy going to sessions and learning from you! : ) (Maybe we’re bad marketers.) Either way,...

Every once and awhile, we revisit this question, just to see if something else has cropped up. Some people swear by… http://www.bbc.com/news/world But honestly, I have a hard time finding anything that beats the...

Want the latest on the best missions video? Try glancing here: 5) The Best YouTube/Vimeo Missions Mobilization Videos — There’s quite a collection growing there. Please make sure you and your org add the latest...

If your mission or church is operating in a USA context, the Affordable Care Act (ACA — or Obamacare) is probably relevant for you. (Maybe if you haven’t researched it, you should start.) Unfortunately, it’s...

Get inspired here: http://www.fundraising-ideas.org/DIY/ SOMEWHERE on that page is an event YOU can stage next quarter. : )

Are you considering business as mission? Thinking about marketplace ministry? Wondering how to get started? AntiochJourney offers a 31-Day Challenge to give you a bite-at-a-time approach to get started. And it’s free....

Brigada doesn’t try to raise much. For over a decade, our annual fundraising goal has been $17,000 per year (enough to pay for web-hosting fees, email, anti-spam monitoring, and a part-time assistant to handle...

There was a time, in the past, when SOME people might have poked fun of missionaries for being kind of “behind the times.” Maybe it was because our predecessors made due with clothes leftover from Salvation Army...