19950813 Brigada Today

News and Notes about Brigada, Your Gateway to Missions Networking!
Now with over 780 Participants!
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In this issue….

BEEN LOOKING FOR A STUDY BIBLE ON-LINE? NOW’S A GOOD TIME TO BUY!

To celebrate the release of Logos 2.0, Stepping Stone Software is offering the complete inventory of Logos Bible study products for 33% off. I bought mine direct from Logos, some time ago, for complete list. Yikes. Get this. I paid $120 for mine and could have gotten it from Chad at Stepping Stone for $84!!! … in CD form! What’s more, Version 2.0 adds a lot more. (If you’re viewing this Brigada Today via the Worldwide web, click Stepping Stone to see the full bulletin on this special offer. If you’re looking at a piece of email in your in-basket, send email to hub@xc.org with only the following line in the text of the message body:
get brigada software-logos

For further information, write to Chad at chp@ix.netcom.com or look at Logos’ home page at http://islander.whidbey.net/~logos/ — and don’t forget to tell them you saw it in Brigada Today. Who knows… they might throw in a free mousepad or something. (That’s a joke .)

WHA’ D’YA MEAN 3479 MESSAGES!????

After last week’s item on Brigada- Peoples (“GET A PIECE OF THE ACTION ON BRIGADA-PEOPLES”), at least one person wondered how anyone could filter through 3479 messages in one week! (Okay, we’ll admit it… that would be a lot of email!) Sorry for any confusion. That’s 72 participants who received 48 different email messages (48 x 72) in one 7-day period for a total conference traffic report of some 3479 pieces of mail. To make things clearer in the future, if we refer to conference traffic again, we’ll refer to the number of unique messages rather than pieces of mail.

GET YOUR VIDEOS . . . FROM DOWN UNDER

Looking for a series of videos to feature some unique “least reached” peoples? Check out Create International’s “Video People Profiles.” Calvin can send you tapes on Tibetan Buddhists, the Zhuang people of China, the Manchu, the Aceh, the Sundanese, the Deccanis, the Kashmiris, the Urdu Muslims, the Malays, and many more. But you get the idea. Each video is US$20 plus $5 for postage and handling… sent via air mail from ‘down under’. (If you’re viewing this Brigada Today via Worldwide Web, click Create to see annotated descriptions of each of the above videos and more. If you’re looking at email, send a message to hub@xc.org with only the following line in the body of the message text:
get brigada videos-create

For further information, write to Create at ConkeyCreate@XC.Org and please tell them you saw it in Brigada Today.

THIS WEEK’S “QUOTE FROM THE CONFERENCES”

… picked up from Brigada participant Scott Harris, who commented in one conference, “It is an encouragement to be globally linked for the advance of the Kingdom!” We heartily agree Scott!

LOCAL CHURCH TO HELP WITH PRAYER PROFILES

Thanks to the visionaries at Bethany World Prayer Center, who have agreed to help with producing long- awaited prayer profiles on the 2500 least evangelized groups of the world. (If you’re viewing on Worldwide Web, click Bethany for the full quote. Otherwise, send email to hub@xc.org with the following line:
get brigada church-bethany

Thanks to the AD2000 & Beyond’s International Office for the update!

ANTIOCH NETWORK HOLDS ANNUAL GATHERING

What do you get when you pull together 100 church leaders from 38 different congregations? An Antioch Network Annual Gathering, that’s what. During their annual meetings, the Antioch Network hopes to foster greater partnership and networking, learning from one another — daring one another to do greater and greater good works! Eventually, the Antioch Network would like to see relational church networks targeting each of 100 different strategic peoples worldwide. Click Antioch to read the entire message from leader George Miley, or send email to hub@xc.org with the following line:
get brigada church-antioch

Write 74552.2423@compuserve.com for more information.

THIS WEEK’S GLOBAL GLIMPSE

Christians in Bosnia are uniting for prayer. Aug. 18-23 local believers and church leaders will meet in Mostar with representatives from World Vision, the US Center for World Mission, and the Christian Information Network to seek God’s intervention and bring reconciliation in this war-torn region. Afterward, these prayer emissaries will travel to the Muslim refugee camps near Tuzla, for prayer and to encourage local Christians reaching out to the refugees. (Thanks to Global Glimpse contributor John Hanna, of Caleb Project, who caught this note in a letter from Missions Frontiers Editor, Rick Wood, 8/13/95, US Center for World Missions.)

WANT TO TEACH AT A MISSION SCHOOL FOR PAY IN A WARM CLIMATE???

Love 5th graders? Licensed to teach? Member of the Christian churches or churches of Christ? Write Jaffet at 75533.2572@compuserve.com to ask for more information on this opportunity at a mission school in Puerto Rico.

“ILUMINA LA VENTANA” AHORA EN ESPANOL

Ahora, CBN esta puede mandarle “Light the Window” en Espanol! “Ilumina La Ventana” esta totalmente “dubbed” en el idioma del cielo. (Espero que ellos que no hablan Espanol no puedan comprender lo que dije yo, por que estoy seguro que ellos probablemente piensan que el idioma de ellos es el idioma de los cielos! Pero nosotros sabemos otra cosa, cierto? De todos modos…) Simplemente hay que mandar un poco dinero (US$4 plus shipping) a CBN. Se puede contactar mark.wilson@cbn.org por informacion. Pero hay que tener prisa. !!!Ya que es el mes de octubre!!!

To see this information, as originally written by Mark, in English, click CBN. Otherwise, send email to hub@xc.org with only the following line in the text of the message:
get brigada videos-cbn

MAPS, MAPS, MAPS

WE’VE GOT MAPS — Remember a long time ago (last week), when we were trying to raise up some map possibilities for the 100 Gateway Cities of the 10/40 Window??? Well Global Mapping has heard our cry (and the cry of several Brigada readers who want them) and has come up with a few possibilities. If they get lots of orders (on the order of hundreds or thousands), their prices drop accordingly. If Bill Dickson has to sit there all night with coffee in his mug, watching them come out of the plotter one at a time because you and I didn’t order but two or three dozen, we have to pay the following prices:

Gateway Cities Wall Map 20″x30″, Full Color	$19.95
Above wall map, fully laminated	$29.95
Full-Color Gateway Cities Overhead trans.	$6.95
Full-Color Gateway Cities 8 1/2″x11″ Map	$6.95
Black & White Gateway Cities 8 1/2″x11 Map	$6.95
10/40 Window Overhead Transparency Map Set	$34.95

“Pray through the Window II” Package	$74.95

(each of the above with lamination on wall map free)

To see the actual order form for more information, click GMI or send email to (yawn) hub@xc.org with only the following line in the body of the text:
get brigada maps-gmi

Write info@gmi.org for more info. Appropriate name there.

[See Updated pricing information at end of this Brigada Today!]

APARTMENT FOR RENT

According to Pulse Magazine, you can rent a simple 2 -bedroom apartment in the following cities for the following prices:

Sydney	$1100	Cairo	$1200
Buenos Aires	$1500	Paris	$2150
NY	$2300	London	$2950
Moscow	$5000	Shanghai	$6300
Tokyo	$7100	Hong Kong	$7200

Didn’t know you had it so good, right? (Yikes. Just who do these landlords think they are, anyway???) Now we know what all these missionaries do with their money. They pay for apartments! The nerve! If you’re not receiving Pulse [only the best little missions news magazine there is], odds are, they probably won’t let you through the pearly gates. Fax them at 708-653- 0520 and tell them you heard about it in Brigada Today… and while you’re at it, send them one of those free America OnLine email disks, okay? (Jim — read my lips — email!)

WANT A FREE WORLDWIDE WEB HOMEPAGE?

(Aaaaahhhh. Now this one caught your eye, didn’t it!?)

Contact MediaMgmt@aol.com and tell them you heard about it in Brigada Today. They’ve got this new land of “Goshen” that will give you your homepage for free… and then I think someday they’ll start charging for “Extended WWW Services” and that’s how they’ll pay the electric bill. In the meantime, it’s a great deal. Let us know your URL, when you get it.

SO HOW MANY PRAYER TEAMS ARE HEADED OUT IN OCTOBER?

As most of you know, one of the features of Praying Through the Window II is to send prayer teams to the actual 10/40 Window to pray in the 100 Gateway Cities. (This is not to imply that God hears prayers better when you pray on site, but rather, that you probably pray more effectively and more informedly onsite, among other things.) We asked Bev Pegues, who is co-coordinating the 100 Gateway Cities project and were amazed at the response. “At this time, we have approximately 500 teams consisting of 2 to 7 people each, traveling to the Gateway cities in October.” That should do it all right!

Let’s stop a moment and pray for these ambassadors, asking God to raise within them a passion for the Window that won’t quit, in spite of visa difficulties , amoebas, and whatever else Satan will throw their way! Then let’s determine to join with them to pray to the Lord of the Harvest!!!!

READ ABOUT ONE MINISTER’S APPROACH TO PRAYING THROUGH THE WINDOW II

If you’re reading this Brigada Today on Worldwide Web, click Florence to read about Tommy Baker, Associate Minister at First Church of Christ, Florence, Kentucky. (Otherwise, send email to hub@xc.org with only the following line in the body of the text:
get brigada church-florence

Among other things, Tommy is recruiting an “adoption” from within his church for each of the 100 Gateway Cities. He’s on the ball. You’ll get practical application from this article.

THANKS TO THE “ANSWER-MAN”

Now and then, we all are asked a question that we can’t answer… and that’s when you need to know about “The Answer-man”. Dave Nesmith popped in this past week on Brigada-Peoples and showed why he, probably more than anyone else in the industry, deserves this title. Someone had asked for information on someplace far away and… sorry to say, there had been precious little response. Up walked David to the plate, knocking a home run with email addresses and contact persons galore. If you’re stumped about anything missions oriented — “Where do I find out about opportunities in southern South Pole?” (well, nearly anything) — write Dave at Dave@gmi.org. You’ll be glad you did. And so will he. His job is to serve the missions community in this way at the DMIS, in affiliation with Global Mapping. So… thanks GMI and thanks DMIS and thanks Dave!

BRIGADA WORLDWIDE WEB PAGE IS “A WHOLE NEW WORLD”

Some scientists say its inconceivable that God could have created the world in seven days. But judging from the pace that Brigada volunteer Bob Mayhew and wife, Patti, have kept in transforming the Brigada web site, maybe God did use 24 hour periods!!!

Bob and Patti have worked night and day cleaning up and refreshing the Brigada www pages. Among the changes they’ve instituted, in their new roles as Brigada Web Master and Artist, are:

New artwork and cleaner appearance throughout (Patti’s the artist of the family . . ., and, needless to say, we think Bob has “good taste”!)
Updated the Brigada Today backissues
Added a section to list the 100 Gateway Cities
Added a section on Praying Through the Window II
Added a “Links to other web sites on the 10/40 Window” section
Updated the “Conferences” page and added a column listing the number of participants in each conference
…and many, many more refreshing changes.

Those of us volunteering as Brigada staff have been praying for some time that God would bring an HTML code specialist to the table for Brigada’s future, but we had no idea He would bring someone as dedicated as Bob Mayhew .
Professionally, he is a computer consultant at the University of California’s Riverside campus, where he is responsible for PC support for Academic Computing in the Computing & Communications department. He’s been working a PC helpdesk for 13 years! As far as HTML goes (the code language for www pages), he began teaching himself 4 weeks ago! (From the Understatement Department: Bob must be a fast learner!) Bob heard about Brigada from Paul Lay, who works with MAF (the “parent company” for CrossConnect; CrossConnect acts as host for all Brigada conferences and worldwide web pages). Paul and Bob attend the same church in California and Paul mentioned Brigada during a recent meeting there. When asked about his spiritual walk, Bob replied, “I would like to say it has been a constantly growing experience, but like most of us my walk with the Lord has had its ups and downs. This is an up time for me. The Lord has been teaching me a lot recently.” From the looks of his worldwide web work, one of the things the Lord is teaching Bob is HTML!!! We salute you, Bob Mayhew, and thank you and Patti for your sacrificial service on behalf of the hundreds of believers who want to see the least reached peoples come to Jesus! Visit Bob’s world (the Brigada homepage) by pointing your www browser to: http://www.xc.org/brigada/brigada.html

FAMOUS QUOTES DEPARTMENT

So “Q” has transferred the entire Enterprise crew to a “Robin Hood” adventure game, right? Picard is face to face with the Sheriff of Nottingham, in a sword fight until death. The Sheriff chokes out, “I’ll have you know that I’m the greatest swordsman in all of Nottingham!” [Clank! Clank! Clank!] So Picard replies, with that winsome smile, “There’s something you should know…” The Sheriff asks, “And what might that be?” Picard: “I’m not from Nottingham!” Needless to say, the Sheriff, shall we say, ‘got the point’. What does this have to do with world evangelism? Ummm … er…. Well you see, Satan wants us to think we’re overpowered, you know? He wants us to see ourselves as outwitted, because he’s the ruler of this present darkness. But our reply needs to be firm and clear: “We’re not from this Kingdom.” Now then. See? It did relate.

Have a great week!

BRIGADA TODAY IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY… — … the following team of regular volunteers:

Global Glimpses: John Hanna, Caleb Project, jhanna@cproject.com
ADVANCE: Mark A. Kelley, Kainos Press, 70420.1057@compuserve.com
Web Wizard: Bob Mayhew, Brigada Volunteer, mayhew@xc.org
Web Art: Patti Mayhew, c/o mayhew@xc.org
Technical Development: Jonathan Marsden, CrossConnect jonathan@xc.org
Compiler: Doug Lucas, Team Expansion & Brigada, DLucas@TeamExpansion.org
and many other occasional contributors too numerous to mention! But thanks for working together! That’s the dream of Brigada!

18 of August, 1995

SPECIAL EDITION — BRIGADA TODAY “EXTRA” Hey!!! Someone out there listened… and has already ordered!!! (Of course , it doesn’t hurt matters when ACMC decides to send them out to all new members and all existing member churches!!! ) The price of the GMI 100 Gateway Cities maps have just gone way down, thanks to overwhelming interest on the part of the people!!!! Now, you can have a full color 20″x30′ map of the 100 Gateway Cities of the 10/40 Window for just $3.95 (in quantities of 100 or more). Single orders are $9.95. Lamination prices remain the same (added $10). All orders must be prepaid. This is literally 1/2 the price we stated just 8 hours ago… (Hey — maybe if we wait through the weekend they’ll be paying us to take them home!!! ) (Not likely.) And for orders of 100 or more, it’s less than 20% of the price mentioned in this morning’s Brigada Today.

So what’s the difference? I’ll tell you what it is. It’s God’s people working together… that’s what it is.

So call, write, email, fax, or drive on up to Colorado and get those maps, folks. (But don’t call me — I just brag about ’em. I don’t sell ’em!)

Global Mapping International
7899 Lexington Drive, Suite 200A
Colorado Springs, CO 80920 USA
PHONE 1-800-569-6312, +1-719-548-7459 OR FAX +1-719-548-7459

Email: info@gmi.org