19950716 Brigada Today

News and Notes about Brigada, Your Gateway to Missions Networking!
Compiled byDLucas@TeamExpansion.org
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AT “PRESSTIME”

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conferences

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LEADERS FROM 152 CHURCHES SAY “COUNT ME IN!” ON ENVISION ’96 “PACE”

This past Monday, leaders from 152 different congregations of non-denominational churches of Christ and Christian churches said, “It is my personal vision to see my congregation accept responsibility for a ‘piece of the least reached world'”! About 800 leaders from just over 200 congregations were present. Three out of four chose to sign on with the Envision ’96 “PACE” project, in which leaders will trust God to empower them to

Pray,
Activate their church in missions at all levels,
Commit to planting a vibrant new church among some least reached city or people group,
Enlist the help of other congregations to be involved in this project or others.

Next step is a mailing to the church leaders within the next 10 days, thanking them for signing on, confirming their intent, and explaining 4 possible models for pursuing their goals. Under the “Set the Pace” Guidebook plans, the leaders would first invest these next 30 days in prayer prior to approaching others in their congregations in an attempt to mobilize them to join in. All 152 churches would participate in the “Praying Through the Window II” campaign during October. They wouldn’t actually choose their people group or city until early December, after a month of focused prayer toward the city or group recommended by church leadership the first of Nov. Envision ’96 leadership met all day yesterday trying to plan “next steps” and follow-up. About 30 “facilitators” will be appointed and trained for catalyzing five churches respectively. Each new PACE church will be asked to begin a Brigada conference for its respective least reached people or city. Thereby , when newcomers join Brigada, they’ll be able to find out which groups have already been engaged by an adopting church and/or agency. In this way, each city or group will have a kind of “billboard” or pointer, so that information will be available for majority world peoples (to encourage networking) and other Western churches as well. For more information, join brigada-projects-envision96 for regular updates via the Thursday mailing, “Points of Departure”. And please join us in praying that these leaders (some preachers, some missions committee chairpeople, and some active members) will be able to multiply their vision into the hearts and lives of others in their churches.

ANTICIPATION GROWS AS PRAYER PROFILES BECOME REALITY

Many are excited to see the completion of a couple of hundred prayer profiles which describe respective people groups which live within the 100 Gateway Cities. This group of profiles is being prepared by volunteers associated with Bill and Amy Stearns. Once they’re completed, announcements will be placed here as to how to access them electronically.

TOOL OF THE WEEK

Want to get a list of the individuals on your conference? Just send email to hub@xc.org, fill in the subject with whatever you want, then enclose two words in the body of the message:
who brigada

In a few minutes, the hub computer will send you back a complete list of your co-conference participants! If you’re a member of another Brigada conference, just substitute that conference’s name for Brigada.

IN THAT CASE…

Does case matter? (Upper case vs. lower case?) Only on file names when you issue a “get” command. You need not worry about case when filling in the address of a Brigada conference.