9) Do your Next Retreat or Vacation at EdenRidge in Tennessee
Are you from the USA, or visiting there soon? EdenRidge, a missionary-focused retreat and vacation destination located in East Tennessee, welcomed nearly 2,000 missionary guests this year. The ministry opened two new small cottages for parties of one or two, complementing the two existing cabins for parties of four. Occupancy was 100% for the March to October season. Please book early if you would like to visit EdenRidge next year as they anticipate another full year. Reservations are made online at
10) Online STM Training Coming Soon – Your Input Needed
Check out Culture Voyager’s video highlighting their upcoming online STM training, and be sure to send them a note to offer your feedback. In order to make this a great pre- and post-field online STM culture training, they need your help.
11) GoDaddy Changed their Tune: No longer Racy with Race Cars
In last week’s item asking for help for hosting…
https://brigada.org/2015/10/23_17336
We mentioned GoDaddy, but also mentioned “You might not like their commercials.” A quick search on the web confirmed what a Brigada participant mentioned (thanks George). It appears he’s right: GoDaddy has dropped their racy ads. See this item at AdWeek:
We apologize that we hadn’t noticed the change! So… have at it! No longer any need to avoid GoDaddy as a great service for domains, hosting, and more. The benchmark by which all others are measured!
12) What Kind of Impact Can Brigada Have?
Janice wrote, “Several years ago, I moved from working with a major media mission to serve as an independent consultant, providing training for missional radio stations-whoever asked for it, in my region. The move was a challenge, because my colleague and I had to re-brand our work. Also, we wanted to make our training materials more user-friendly, with contextual illustrations to help learners understand key principles of the lesson. Enter Brigada: a notice in your bulletin and we soon had a kind volunteer in the US who provided us not only with a purpose-designed logo, but with cartoons to match our teaching content. Good job, Brigada!”
13) We’re Grateful for…
…Go International, who sent $30 to move their item forward in the queue. God bless you!
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14) The BackPage: The Gideons Release New Bible App
None of us were around for the advent of the printing press but we can all participate in the next step. Leave it to an org named after an Old Testament hero who faced seemingly impossible odds. The Gideons have a brand new bible app for Apple and Android devices. It has over 1100 languages with audio versions in most cases. The user just plugs in his/her country and language and, bam — The scripture appears in written form. It’s free, easy to use and simply amazing. One downloads a version when WiFi is available (e.g., in a major city). That version remains on the device when one is in the field and away from the hot spot. But the cool part is that the device is shareable via Bluetooth in the field. This app will be useful not only to locals, but to short-termers and professionals who can now give the gift of scripture without having to carry boxes of books, which sometimes might elevate one’s profile. Imagine — this is like a major revolution.
Find it in your device’s “store” or “marketplace” by searching for Gideon bible or read more and see a video here…
(Thanks for the tip, Joe!)
15) Closing Stuff
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2015/10/25 — Brigada Today
Compiled/Edited by Doug Lucas and Tina McCormick, Team Expansion. Your gift to Brigada will help get motivation, resources, and news/trends out to thousands of Christian workers throughout the globe on a weekly basis. Search over 2 decades of weekly Brigadas using the search box below.
In this issue…
1) What Kind of Impact Can Brigada Have?
2) How Do We Understand the Complexity of Languages in our World Today?
3) International Congress on Language Learning
4) TESOL Training in Chiang Mai, Thailand
5) CSGC Needs Researchers, Writers, Editors, and Others
6) Reaching the Hard Places
7) How Do You Learn about Global Missions From Your House?
8) Share your faith: One App, Four Tools, 37 Languages.
9) Need a Notary while Overseas? Check THIS out
10) How Do You Send Lots of Messages at Once?
11) Mobile Ministry Made Easy
12) Where do you Turn for Mid-Level Web Hosting?
13) We’re grateful for…
14) The BackPage: What’s Your Take on Today’s Christian Colleges?
15) Closing Stuff
1) What Kind of Impact Can Brigada Have?
For the last 8 weeks of 2015, we’ll be running a series by the title above. If you have a story, answered prayer, opportunity found, or other testimony about Brigada, would you please send it to us by emailing it to
Editor@brigada.org please?
A few years back when fax machines were the primary form for ordering books and maps, one org told us they always made sure they loaded their fax machine full of paper the night before a Brigada item was going to run. If they didn’t, they said they’d come into the office only to find out their fax machine ‘memory’ was maxed out with new orders. Another time, they said the “new fax” bin on their machine had run over with orders, with new orders spilling out all over the floor. Of course, these days, with web forms and emails, we no longer have to worry about bins and paper, thank the Lord. But there are still just as many great resources, opportunities, motivations, trends, and more. Thanks for being a part of Brigada!
2) How Do We Understand the Complexity of Languages in our World Today?
Easy. Check out the infographic at…
http://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1810040/infographic-world-languages
It’s all on one chart, and it’s impactful. And you just might be surprised. : ) (Thanks for the tip, Tim!)
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