Month: November 2016

This Thanksgiving, would you consider making an offering gift to Brigada? If you can, please do what you can to come up with a $100 gift to help for those who would LIKE to partner with Brigada but can’t. Then on November...

When we made the quiet jump from iContact to MailChimp a couple of weeks ago, we tested the “look and feel” in MailChimp and sought out a design that would, as much as possible, emulate the model we had been using...

Have you ever felt a tension between the mobilization folks and the member care folks? Jonathan Trotter, an overseas worker and writer for A Life Overseas, examines this tension and seeks to balance the two. What do you think?...

Kitty Purgason of Biola announces the publication of _Professional Guidelines for Christian English Teachers: How to be a Teacher with Convictions while Respecting those of your Students_. Professional Guidelines for Christian...

Caleb wrote this past week to point us toward a brand new offering from Microsoft called “Teams.” We aren’t quite clear on their pricing model yet. (It didn’t seem terribly obvious?) But it did indeed...

We received a note this past week asking if we had any recommendations for a software or service that would help with scheduling. The mission executive, Trevor, asked for something “to organize quarterly new missionary...

Good Neighbor Insurance recently released a free beautiful 40-page Travel Safety Guide which details strategies dealing with unlawful detainment by border patrol or the police; What to do if kidnapped; Data security overseas;...

The global missions community has become increasingly aware of issues about honor and shame. This global Honor-Shame Conference on theme “Honor, Shame and the Gospel: Reframing Our Message for 21st Century Ministry”...

A group of counselors has created http://www.cleanseyour2016.com to help Americans process the events of the 2016 election cycle. The website will encourage inward reflection designed to move people toward peace, healing, and...

The Global Counseling Network recommends http://StopSexualAddiction.com GCN tries to promote healing through one-on-one counseling, but they feel that this website will be kind of like “homework” for the journey. If...