Month: June 2018

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) Let’s Get Smart about Sending Out New Workers 2) There are Zillions...

It costs a lot to send out and care for people in overseas ministry. In view of that, how can we increase the likelihood that our sent-ones will have an effective and productive experience? Mission Smart: 15 Critical Questions...

Which one do you prefer? We’ve had good luck with Ninja Forms… https://ninjaforms.com/ They say they’ve been downloaded 11 million times. (Of course, if 10,999,999 people decided not to use them, maybe...

Neal Pirolo has been a constant voice for good member care. He recently saw an item in Brigada and, he told us this past week, it started a string of thoughts that led him to write, “Thousands of words and hundreds of...

Kind of an oxymoron, right? Could a “smart phone” make you not so smart? That was the finding in a study done by the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. The study basically found that...

We recently decided to give DonorElf a try — to help us communicate with current and prospective donors more effectively. What in the world were we thinking? Why haven’t we been using this before?!!! The development...

This month, Salesforce released what they’re calling the “Nonprofit Cloud.” With this new set of features, they’re claiming that nonprofits can gain a complete view of constituents and mission, track and...

Allen Yeh’s thoughtful analysis at… The Future of Mission is from Everyone to Everywhere might not fully explain polycentric missiology as much as you’d like, but it does indeed paint a good picture of five...

More than a quarter of the world’s population is under the age of 15 and Christians need to be equipped to teach this open-hearted “mission field.” A missionary in New Zealand publishes free Bible Lessons...

And the Brigada audience responded. For example, Peter expressed his opinion that, just because we might use MailChimp as a service to send newsletters, it didn’t get “the monkey off our back,” so to speak....