News and Notes about Brigada, Your Gateway to Missions Networking!
Compiled by DLucas@TeamExpansion.org
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In this issue….
WE’RE STILL GROWING!
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DALLAS/FORT WORTH MOBILIZERS CONFERENCE OFF AND RUNNING
Thanks to John Anderson, missions-minded believers from the Dallas/Fort Worth area are going to find it a lot easier to talk to one another about missions news and opportunities these days. John wants to experiment with a
Brigada conference aimed at helping aid missions mobilization on a local scale, with a view of making a bigger impact globally. The conference will allow for announcements and resource-sharing, especially related to ACMC and AIMS conference announcements, descriptions, etc., College/School missions conferences, “Concerts of Prayer” locations & schedules, Church missions conferences, Church missions seminars, ISI opportunities and activities at local secular universities, Local people group outreach (Kurds, Bosnians, Russians Jews, etc.), Perspectives schedules, Church short term projects in need of people, supplies, prayer, etc., Amateur Radio Clubs and Resources in the area, E-Mail resources in the area, etc. D/FW area participants can join by sending email to
hub@xc.org with the only line of the message being:
subscribe brigada-projects-dfwmobilizers
This DFW conference is already launched! You may join at any time! Godspeed John!
BRIGADA PARTICIPANT WELCOMES PEOPLE PROFILES
Have you tried to retrieve any of the people group profiles on
Brigada. Tom did: “That profile on the people group from Morocco was great! If [future ones]… are of that quality, I’d be delighted
. Thanks for your faithfulness. This network is a real blessing through which we can bless the nations. God’s grace be richly upon you all.” Why not try retrieving the Morocco profile that Tom mentioned today!? Just send email to
hub@xc.org with the only line in the text being:
get brigada peoples-morocco-ishilhayn
The profile will come back into your email box within 4-5 minutes. Last night, a college president (with too much mail to read each day!) asked if there was any way to ‘index’ all the Brigada information. Great question. As far as files go (“gets”), we’re trying to use file names that, for the most part, explain the purpose/application for a file. But any input would be greatly appreciated. Many online users say that the WorldWide Web will be much easier to navigate, since it will require only a double-click of the mouse to go from one area to the next, or from one map or document to the next. That’s why we’re trying to experiment with WorldWide Web page development now. When the WWW becomes accessible to most email users (e.g., when AOL and Cserve open the door), we’d like to be able to give you an address where that material you’ve been searching for will be indexed!
COMING SOON – LIST OF LEAST EVANGELIZED PEOPLE GROUPS ISN’T “VAPORWARE”!
We’ve seen it! Thanks to Ron Rowland and a top flight team of co-workers, the long-awaited list of “Least Evangelized Peoples” is rapidly becoming reality! This past week, Ron allowed
Brigada to examine the list and… Wow! … someone’s done a lot of work! The rough group of 4893 is now being boiled down into a priority list of 2400 or so “key” groups. Originating mainly from previous lists submitted by Patrick Johnstone, John Gilbert (Southern Baptist – Foreign Mission Board), and Kaleb Jansen (Adopt-A-People-Clearinghouse) for AD2000 and the Unreached Peoples Track, the list will report the Country Name, Language name, ROPAL Code, People Name, Population in country, R-Code (Barrett race code supplied by PJ) and Affinity bloc/Language Family. … The world is being divided into “Affinity Blocs”, using language family relationships, and “Gateway Peoples” are being listed, i.e. peoples that it will be key to enter first. Once these lists are determined, they will be central to discussions at GCOWE in the Unreached Peoples Track. In addition, some are recommending that they be used as the basis for discussion by a series of “Affinity Group” regional networks, after GCOWE. Please join us in praying that all this research time can be allotted and that the researchers could complete their respective challenges. Pray with us that God would give us wisdom as to how to make the information available, as it is released. Ask Him to guide us as to what forms & media might best serve to alert our ranks as to the regions and peoples that still remain untouched by His message.
PRAY FOR MEETING TODAY (FRIDAY) AT ADOPT-A-PEOPLE CLEARINGHOUSE
Please ask God to bless the brainstorming session in Colorado Springs today. Representatives from
Brigada, Global Mapping, CrossConnect and Adopt-a-People Clearinghouse will be praying and brainstorming about how to lift up worldwide needs most effectively, especially with reference to drawing attention to the least evangelized unreached people groups and cities. Please ask God to speak clearly to the participants. Scheduled to attend are Bill Dickson (GMI), Terry Riley (AAPC), Bob Binkley (AAPC), Marv Bowers (AAPC), Pete Holzmann (CrossConnect), and Eric Derry (Brigada).
THIS WEEK’S FEATURED CONFERENCE – THE GPD “ALARM CLOCK”
At one time or another, probably all of us have subscribed to the
Global Prayer Digest. What a great tool to alert us to worldwide prayer needs! But over the past few weeks, since the US Center has launched the online ‘GPD’, I’ve done more
regular praying than I ever did when I was getting the booklet in written form. Seemed like when I traveled, or when I got busy, the booklet sometimes found its way onto a shelf somewhere, and little be little faded from my list of ‘things to do’ during devotional times. But now, the ‘GPD’ comes like an alarm clock, every day, into my email in-basket. And even if I have several messages to which I need to reply, I at least scan the content, then utter a quick prayer on behalf of the particular nation/people highlighted that day. Try it yourself! You just might be surprised! Well over 40 people are now subscribed. Not bad for a month-old project!
TOOL OF THE WEEK – NEED TO SEND A SPREADSHEET BY EMAIL? GET UUENCODE
Ever have to send a spreadsheet or an executable by email and couldn’t figure out how to convert that binary code to ascii text? Now, you can get uuEncode from Brigada and do it anytime you want. Just send email to
hub@xc.org with the only line of your message being…
get brigada uuexe521.bat
This is a 52K batch file that is self-extracting when executed. Full instructions are included. Both sender and receiver will need these files, which translate the binary code into ascii characters for emailing, then turn them back into your original binary form (Winword document, Excel spreadsheet, executable, etc.) upon arrival.
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