In this issue….
- INCREDIBLE RESOURCE FOR CHILDREN’S MISSIONS ED.
- 40 DAYS OF PRAYER FOR AFRICA
- DOGPILE GATHERS A PACK OF STRAY RESPONSES
- TRAINING TO TEACH ENGLISH IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK
- DISCIPLESHIP AND CROSS-CULTURAL MENTORING
- USED COMPUTERS FOR CHARITIES
- CZECH OUT THESE MOBILIZATION RESOURCES
- DESTINATION 2000 MISSIONS EVENT SCUTTLED
- THE BACKPAGE: WILL SOMEONE PRAY FOR “SEBASTIAN?”
- CLOSING STUFF
INCREDIBLE RESOURCE FOR CHILDREN’S MISSIONS ED.
Whoa. Have you gotten a look at the new children’s missions education resources hot off the press from the Christian and Missionary Alliance National Office? Incredible. Giant binders ooze with videos, cassettes, and full-color booklets. And the best part is . . . there are lots of practical ideas here. The “Kids on a Mission Curriculum Kit” is $42 — but it contains 7 units plus a wrap-up session to teach grades 1-5 about the Great Commission and Unreached Peoples. Complete with overheads and reproducible activity sheets, maps, and cards. Then — get this — the “Kids on a Mission Musical” ($52) would be a great ribbon to tie that course off. It can be done with as few as 8 children and includes a spiral-bound book, a CD sound track and accompaniment, sheet music, reproducible scripts, production notes, devotional guide, costume patterns, set design pattern ([inhale 
— Whew! 
), choreography, companion products listing and poster! Then there are special pens, t- shirts, leaders’ shirts, witness bracelet kits, and even keychains! Purchase from http://www.cmalliance.org (click on “Local Churches” then CE Ministries), or call toll-free in the USA or elsewhere via Net2Phone to 877-284-3262. While there, ask about “Building Great Commission Kids (missions planner manuals and lesson books), “How to Conduct a Successful Kids’ Missions Festival From A to Z”, Missions Prayer tools for kids, and Kids’ Mission Fest Modules (like “Search and Rescue — Take the Challenge… Reach the Lost”). Great stuff. All these materials are generic enough to be used by any stream of churches (not just the C&MA). Hats off to Marv Parker and the people that have helped him make this happen. 40 DAYS OF PRAYER FOR AFRICA
After a consultation in Kampala, Uganda, leaders from Africa issued a call to 40 Days of Prayer and Fasting for the continent from 1 November to 10 December. A prayer calendar is available in Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili and English. For more info email nupsa@global.co.za. All the info and the calendars in the different languages are also available at website: http://www.nupsa.org.za. DOGPILE GATHERS A PACK OF STRAY RESPONSES
Never let it be said that those “dogpile” users out there aren’t passionate about their product! We rec’d several supportive (and a couple of negative) emails about http://www.dogpile.com as a search engine. One Brigada participant wrote, “…When I was growing up, we used the word to describe kids piling on each other in play–one person might be on the ground, someone yells, ‘dogpile!’ and everyone piles on. … ” I’ll have to admit — once I heard his explanation, it made a lot more sense. At the same time, I’d suggest you pass on the “jokes” listed at the search site. At least one reader commented on the fact that several were in very poor taste. TRAINING TO TEACH ENGLISH IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK
Youth With a Mission (Lebanon, Pa USA) is offering a special TESOL course, June 18 to July 13, 2001. For more info., contact: YWAM at USA tel. 717-272-3153 or e-mail davidbbauman@cs.com. DISCIPLESHIP AND CROSS-CULTURAL MENTORING
That’s what you’ll get at YWAM’s “Crossroads Discipleship School” based in Lebanon, Pa, USA. From April 23 to July 13, 2001, you can take part in special cross- cultural training followed by an eight-week outreach to the Muslim Tatar people of Ukraine. The cost of the lecture phase is $2,520 per person. Add about $2,000.00 per person for the outreach phase. For more information call tel. 717-272-3153 or e-mail davidbbauman@cs.com. USED COMPUTERS FOR CHARITIES
This is recycling to the max. Give an old computer so that someone else can use it to gain new life! In the USA, contact “Enable” via http://www.servants-inc.org, and in the UK, see Computers for Charity on the web at http://www.computersforcharity.org.uk. If you learn of other such groups, please inform Tony tony@soon.org.uk. (Thanks Tony!) CZECH OUT THESE MOBILIZATION RESOURCES
DESTINATION 2000 MISSIONS EVENT SCUTTLED
The Destination 2000 event scheduled in Kalamazoo on October 13 and 14 at Calvary Bible Church has been cancelled. For more info., contact Bryan (616-372-1130) or see the web at http://wwwCalvaryBible.org. THE BACKPAGE: WILL SOMEONE PRAY FOR “SEBASTIAN?”
So I got to wondering… how many “Sebastians” are out there right now, hoping against hope that God will raise up a new missions movement within the particular part of Christ’s body where they are ministering. And so they wait. . . . And wait. . . . and wait some more.
Well I believe that God’s heart breaks for these special servants. And I believe He yearns for them to know of His patient heart on their behalf.
What do you say we lift them up . . . right now . . . even if it’s only for 15 seconds. (Hint: some might want to pray longer.) Here’s a prayer we could all pray together — in our own words, of course: “Lord, right now, I thank you for ‘Sebastian’ and all those like him who yearn to awaken others to a world in need. I ask that you would give them endurance for the long haul. I pray you’ll give them incredible measures of wisdom as to how to be gentle but firm ‘watchmen on the wall’ to sound the trumpet for unreached peoples around the world. I pray that they’ll never ‘grow weary in well doing.’ Likewise, please don’t ever let them become bitter, but instead to be patient and sensitive in getting the message across to others. And in the end, Lord, may your heart go out to them all the more. You’ve promised to be ‘with us until the end of the age’ and you gave that promise immediately after you commissioned your disciples to take the gospel to all nations. Please help us finish that task, for your glory. Amen.” Thanks . . . and “Sebastian” . . . please know that there are people praying for you!
TO SUBSCRIBE — To subscribe to BRIGADA TODAY, send email to brigada-today-subscribe@egroups.com.
TO UNSUBSCRIBE — Send email to brigada-today-unsubscribe@egroups.com. (Subject and text are ignored.)
IF IT DOESN’T WORK — Write Don & Judy, our Customer Services Managers at help@brigada.org. Yahooooo for volunteers!!!
COPYRIGHT — This issue of Brigada Today is Copyrighted © 2001. However, permission is granted to freely redistribute these materials, including those available through email autoresponders, provided that such redistribution is to those who will help the Good News of Christianity to reach the unreached. But please include this phrase: “For a free subscription of Brigada‘s weekly missions publication, write <brigada-today-subscribe@egroups.com>.”
IMPORTANT: To copy or reproduce Brigada Today for any other reason is illegal and is not permitted.
DISCLAIMER — Please note that there’s no way we can possibly screen all the text on all the web sites or items we recommend. We try to check them out first… but if we miss something, please don’t assume that the opinions on those sites are identical to those of the Brigada family of networks. “Eat the corn, leave the cob!” 
For subscription questions or problems, write help@brigada.org.
SUBMITTING CONTENT — To submit content or ideas to Brigada Today, first please get a copy of “Guidelines for submitting items to Brigada” Then, once you’ve composed your item in keeping with those guidelines, send your item for Brigada Today to DLucas@teamexpansion.org.
Thanks to
Emphasis is placed on items relating to unreached peoples and challenges faced by those reaching them cross-culturally.
PLEASE DON’T SUBSCRIBE US TO YOUR LIST — It’s always better to ask before manually force-adding anyone to your list-serve or mailing list. Recently, tons of well-meaning people have been subscribing Doug to their lists. Since he often travels overseas, he doesn’t join many of those, for obvious reasons (like being charged big-time for overseas access). So as a general rule, please don’t bulk-mail us! See the note above if you’d like to submit items for Brigada Today. Thanks for understanding. Bottom line: We will never create Brigada Today items from bulk mail. Bulk mail gets deleted immediately — sorry. Nothing personal. We suggest you apply the same standard to everyone. Ask first!
WARNING ABOUT FORWARDING EMAILS — Please, before forwarding any kind of request (even if it says “please send this to all your friends”), please check to make sure it has a VERIFIABLE ORIGIN, a VERIFIABLE PURPOSE, and a VERIFIABLE CLOSURE (OPC). By following this simple approach, many “email viruses” could be nipped in the bud… at least in the Brigada family. More information about the full Brigada OPC protocol is available. Thank you.
BRIGADA TODAY IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FOLLOWING TEAM OF REGULAR VOLUNTEERS:
Global Glimpses: John Hanna, Caleb Project, jhanna@cproject.com
Brigada Website: Bob Mayhew, WebServant@brigada.org- Brigada Customer Service Manager: help@brigada.org
- Brigada Coordinator: 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!
Recent Comments