Year: 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) Ministries Helping People Around the World to Get Clean Water 2) Could...

On the Water Ministries website, you will find a bunch of ministries that are helping people around the world who have problems getting clean water. Some of the ministries are also interested in sharing the gospel with the same...

Amazon’s Founder and CEO believes so. His 2018 annual letter repeated his rule banning Powerpoint from all executive meetings. Why, you might ask? We’ve prepared a PowerPoint to explain — just kidding. It...

What does it cost to fly from the US Embassy in Kabul over to the airport? As of next year, $2250. Yes, that’s actually more expensive than the $1850 flight from Washington DC to Kabul. But, as you’ll see in the...

Download “The Thirty One Largest People Groups: A Global Invitation to The Body of Christ” from for free today. International Day of Prayer for the Unreached was May 20th, but you can pray anytime and the Lord will...

Does non-CPM, non-DMM church-planting training still happen? (You might ask, why would anyone want to know that? Who could possibly still want to offer something in the traditional, non-DMM way?) The truth is, we recently...

David Mays was kind of a-Mays-zing. Long-time consultant and resource person for ACMC, he was one of those guys who made such a huge impact on so many people — maybe he was superhuman. Well, his work lives on through the...

As this Brigada goes out the door, it seems more and more likely that North Korea and the USA might meet for a summit. See stories like… https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/27/politics/us-team-north-korea-summit/index.html and...

The folks at Gordon Conwell’s “Center for the Study of Global Christianity are some of the top experts in the world on stats regarding the spread of God’s Good News. Their 2018 update can be found at…...

Productive Volunteer Teams is an easy-to-read 22-page e-book that reveals how to energize and motivate volunteers, form them into functional teams, set objectives and job descriptions and structure volunteer activity so that...