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News and Notes about Brigada, Your Gateway to Missions Networking!
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Compiled by Doug Lucas, Cincinnati, Ohio
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In this issue….
* PRAYER JOURNEY TRAINING ON TAPE
* LAST CHANCE FOR “LIBRARY TO GO”
* RESPONSES TO “HOW DO YOU FILE BRIGADA”
* WRITERS WANTED FOR PROPOSED FRONTIER MISSIONS ARTICLE
* PERUSE THE PUNJAB
* HOW TO ADVERTISE BRIGADA TODAY
* GREAT PRICE ON NEW MISSIONS BOOK – FREE!
* TALK TO YOUR BUDDY ON THE NET
* SITE FOR MALAY EYES
* NEED A PRINTER? LOOK NO FURTHER
* DOWNLOAD AN EMAIL “BOMM” AND SEE MISSION MOBILIZATION EXPLODE
* DOES PGP RAISE YOUR PROFILE? “GET” THE ANSWER
* DON’T FORGET TO CHANGE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION
* GLOBAL GLIMPSE FROM ALGERIA
* GOT GOOD DISCIPLESHIP MATERIALS IN PORTUGUESE?
* HONEST I WAS ONLY KIDDING!
* CALLING ALL MISSION PROFESSORS
* CALLING ALL MISSION TRAINERS
* WHAT A GREAT EXAMPLE OF GOOD SLEUTHING
* 700+ UNREACHED PEOPLES PROFILES NOW AVAILABLE
* TO SUBSCRIBE TO BRIGADA TODAY
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PRAYER JOURNEY TRAINING ON TAPE
Over 40 participants came together this past weekend for training with Shane Bennett on the why, what, and how of prayer journeys and with PACE reps. for how to do a PACE Project among an unreached people group. What great reviews the prayer journey training received, as part of Pit-Stop Louisville! AND for no extra charge (the training cost $10!), Shane included some basics on doing research during the experience too! Thank goodness David Dunlap 104165.2242@compuserve.com was there to try to get the whole thing on tape! (David used to work for ABC and currently does freelancing with Jesus Film project and Good News Production.) Write him if you’d like a video copy. He’ll work something out, I hope. :-) Dave’ll give you a fair price on the cost of the tapes — and … maybe those requesting tapes can add in a $5 gift to Shane and Caleb Project. Dave’ll collect any gifts and send them on to Shane to help him keep doing traveling and training for future teams! Sound okay Dave?
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LAST CHANCE FOR “LIBRARY TO GO”
Those reference books on CD-ROM just keep on coming! This past week we received news on works by Clarke, Luther, Spurgeon, Nave, White, Bonds, Carradine, Fox, AND collections by Calvin, Finney, Moody, Owen, John Wesley, AND biographies on Bunyan, Clarke, Finney, Moody, Muller, Taylor & Wesley, AND final word on the entire Expositors Bible Commentary on CD-ROM as well! As a result, we’re taking one last week to ask for any more additions (so I don’t have to spend the next couple of weeks re-posting the file!!! :-)). But this time we’re serious — only one final week to respond! If you have a favorite CD-ROM resource that you figure some missionary could use in the field and you haven’t already submitted it, just email the title, order information, and a brief paragraph description to DLucas@TeamExpansion.org with the subject line reading:
LIBRARY TO GO
(Only items with those exact words in the subject line will be included in a new source file in the Brigada file archive beginning next week!) Don’t forget to include price and source! This will [seriously] be the last week for collection — so rattle those keyboards and get your CD titles in today!
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RESPONSES TO “HOW DO YOU FILE BRIGADA”
Seems like the best solutions are simple solutions — and your answers on how you file previous Brigada Today issues were no exception. Some “select”, copy and paste the entire issue into a big WinWord text file. Whenever they want to find a particular kind of resource, they can then do a “find” in that archive (hundreds and hundreds of pages if you were to include each issue since Feb. 18, ’95). Others make each issue into a separate text file and place them all in the same subdirectory, then use a utility to search the contents of that subdirectory for a text string. Don’t forget you can also browse https://brigada.org where Bob Mayhew has designed and constructed (as a labor of love, I might add — he receives no pay) a lightning search engine for previous Brigada Today issues. Alternatively, you could use one of the new “web-bot” web downloaders to download the entire Brigada Today portion of the Brigada Today web site and take it with you on your next missions weekend, in case questions come up “on the road.” Finally, don’t forget that, quietly and patiently in the background, we’ve archived each and every Brigada Today for you as an archive file on the hub. To get previous issues, first send an email to hub@xc.org with only the line,
filelist brigada
You’ll receive a complete list of file names for past Brigada Today issues along with other files archived throughout the past couple of years.
To retrieve any past issue, you can always use the same approach:
Get brigada brigada-today.970530
Swap out the date code at the end with the date of the issue you’re wanting to retrieve — for example…
Get brigada brigada-today.950825
That line would get you the issue which introduced the original People Group Consultant database online… You get the idea. All those files will then come to you as emails and you can archive and sort to your heart’s content. Or use hard copies to wallpaper the den! Flies won’t land on past issues of Brigada Today. Try it! :-) Guaranteed or your money back! :-)
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WRITERS WANTED FOR PROPOSED FRONTIER MISSIONS ARTICLE
A writer for a major journal is seeking an article from Brigada Today with the title, THE INTERNET: TENTMAKERS’ COFFEESHOP FOR THE NINETIES. The description runs something like, “In the old days, friends used to gather at coffeeshop counters to talk about common struggles, interests, and discoveries. The practice hasn’t changed, but the venue has! The Internet is proving to be the most effective, efficient, and productive meeting grounds for the nineties.” The proposal is to look at sections on “security, potential, and the future of the Internet and tentmaking.” If you’d like to contribute a paragraph or section to the article, send your ideas/paragraphs/quote to DLucas@TeamExpansion.org with subject line,
TENTMAKING ARTICLE
and we’ll try to include something from your quote and try to credit you in the byline (unless you ask to remain anonymous). It just might be that this article could end up being the record-setting article for “most authors to any one journal article” — 5500+!!! :-) All input must be received no later than June 9. Give any personal examples of how the Internet has helped you prepare for, implement, or survive/thrive in tentmaking ministry. Talk about your fears for security on the Internet, give your favorite horror story :-) or even talk about what you see happening in the future. This will be a great experiment — and perhaps you’ll even be able to read the article in the journal in the tentmaking issue in which it will appear! So don’t delay! Send your ideas today!
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PERUSE THE PUNJAB
Here’s a new email conference ready to roar! Just send email to hub@xc.org with only this line in the text of the message:
subscribe brigada-peoples-punjabi
You’ll be able to receive or send out PRAYER REQUESTS and REPORTS related to ministries, among the Punjabi speaking peoples, learn of new MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES among Punjabis, NETWORK with others engaged in ministries to the Punjabis, and share MINISTRY RESOURCES you have developed or locate a ministry resource you need. Great job Joel!
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HOW TO ADVERTISE BRIGADA TODAY
One Brigada participant wrote this past week to ask us for an email “brochure” about Brigada. Yikes. I know it needs updated badly, but one could at least get the idea by sending the following line to hub@xc.org
info brigada
Thanks for asking! You could then use that text to relay or copy to anyone. Please do!
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GREAT PRICE ON NEW MISSIONS BOOK – FREE!
The price is right! Keith Doss keithdoss@juno.com wrote this past week to tell us about Revolution in World Missions. He wrote, “The most important book I have read, after the Bible. The best missions mobilizing tool I know of–by far. Written by a man from India.” According to Keith, “Luis Bush, of AD2000 & Beyond Movement is excited about the above ministries plans, and that they have what it takes, and that they are living it out, and that they are penetrating the 10/40 Window. The book can be ordered through the Internet: http://www.gfa.org. I think the above comments by Luis Bush can be seen at the above address–look for the March/April, 1997 issue of their newsletter. They will ship the book to you free (limited shipping area–you might be asked to pay for shipping if you do not live in certain countries). Might be able to order from e-mail if you do not have Internet access. E-mail: info@gfa.org. Can’t lose on that offer folks!
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TALK TO YOUR BUDDY ON THE NET
Have you seen http://www.aol.com/buddylist/ ??? One reader (soon heading into the 10/40 Window, so wishes to remain anonymous) says AOL’s feature used to be for AOL only but now will work for anyone on the net. There are several utilities now available to do this… like http://www.ichat.com/ipage/index.html and http://pal.excite.com among several others. Problem is — your buddy has to be on at the same time. So — personally, I still prefer email. But several users are very excited about these capabilities so go have a look!
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SITE FOR MALAY EYES
Got a Malay friend? Send him/her to http://www.domini.org/spear/amalan.htm. The author told Brigada Today this past week, “…The Website in Muslimani Malay is now up on the Web. As of about ten minutes ago. The Malays are the world’s most unreached and restricted Muslim group of their size and yet have the most sophisticated Internet and computer industry in Asia. It is very simple and made up of 14 questions and answers about the beliefs and practices of Christians. … It was 26 years ago next month that I was put in prison for three months in Turkey for giving out a gospel tract. And now this.” Worth checking out.
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NEED A PRINTER? LOOK NO FURTHER
Looking for a printing and mailing resource for your newsletters and prayer letters? Consider Mission Services Association. They have done it for over 50 years. Do people actually still use snail mail? :-) Surprisingly, the answer is yes. The Exec. Director of MSA wrote this past week to Brigada Today, “That’s right, there is a whole generation of missions minded folks who ‘download’ everything from their mailbox [the one out by the road!].” :-) MSA can compose, print and mail whatever you need. With the use of their addressing and mailing software, they can get the lowest standard mailing rates for you. You can contact them by phone (800-655-8524), email Mission_Services@compuserve.com or snail mail: P.O. Box 2427, Knoxville, TN 37901. Nice people. By the way, another Brigada participant just recommended Howard’s Print Shop http://www.netusa1.net/~hpsprint/ for great prayer cards.
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DOWNLOAD AN EMAIL “BOMM” AND SEE MISSION MOBILIZATION EXPLODE
Nate Wilson has now made available the entire organized collection of all the Mission Mobilization Resources covered in the Brigada-orgs-missionmobilizers (B.O.M.M.) email conference during the years 1995 and 1996. What a great sampler platter this is! Get it by sending email to hub@xc.org with only the line…
get brigada bomm
Finally, here’s your chance to download a bomm for Jesus!!! :-) Send it to all your friends in the name of the Lord! :-)
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DOES PGP RAISE YOUR PROFILE? “GET” THE ANSWER
Thanks to John Hanna who undertook the Brigada survey on the question, “Does using PGP raise your profile?” Get the answer by sending email to hub@xc.org with only the line,
get brigada pgp-profile
PGP is a free email encryption program that allows you to “seal the envelope” on your email, so to speak, so no one along the way can read its contents. To learn about PGP, see http://www.iuc.org/NS062396.HTM (Scroll down till you see “PGP Jump Start”)
According to one reader who read John’s report, “The results of this survey indicate a flaw in the popular missions community perception (not the international business community who has been encrypting their email for many years) which states that encrypted email raises one’s profile in restricted access countries. On the contrary, we have no evidence to suggest that this is true in lands where encryption is not illegal.” Read the report for yourself and decide.
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DON’T FORGET TO CHANGE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION
…before you move… unsubscribe your Brigada-* subscriptions with your old email service please! :-) You can always subscribe your new service once you’ve got it up and running — and we hope you will! Compuserve’s alphabetical options are killers for Brigada-* conference moderators. Please unsubscribe before you register your new alpha address. Also, Brigada-* conference moderators dread name changes like the one effective June 18, when the “Foreign Mission Board” (FMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention will become the “International Mission Board” and all those former “mci” and other addresses will switch to “imb.org”. In many cases, they’ll go on to receive Brigada emails, but the first time they try a “get” or some other command from the hub, they’re powerless, because the hub “reads” their address as “imb” instead of the one under which they were originally subscribed. Bottom line: “Unsubscribe, switch, subscribe again.” Please.
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GLOBAL GLIMPSE FROM ALGERIA
In Algeria fundamentalist Moslem groups still carry out brutal attacks even on women and children. Nevertheless, the Christian church is quietly growing. According to one of the country’s Christian leaders one group has grown from 1,600 to 2,000 members since November 1996. All of the new members are from Moslem backgrounds. According to eyewitnesses, this relatively quick growth is due to a clear outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
(Source: DAWN FridayFax, May 9, 1997. http://www.jesus.org.uk/dawn .)
Global Glimpse is compiled each week by John Hanna, Caleb Project, Littleton, CO.
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GOT GOOD DISCIPLESHIP MATERIALS IN PORTUGUESE?
Send references to bud@ax.apc.org. We’ll ask him to file a copy with us in a couple of weeks for all to see.
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HONEST I WAS ONLY KIDDING!
:-) One Brigada participant complained a bit about my reference to reincarnation… HOW DO BUSINESS PEOPLE BECOME VITAL PARTICIPANTS IN MISSIONS?”, where I wrote, “When I grow up, or if I’m reincarnated as a different person, I want to be George Miley. :-)” Just to clarify, I’m not Hindu nor did I originally exist as a fly. :-) And when I use the :-) it usually means, “I wish you could see the smile on my face.” :-)
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CALLING ALL MISSION PROFESSORS
The annual meeting of the Association of Professors of Mission is set with the theme, “Looking to the Future, ” at Techny Towers, Techny, Illinois, from the afternoon of June 19 to the afternoon of June 20. (The American Society of Missiology meetings will follow – June 20-22) Topics include: Post-Modernism and implications for Teaching Mission (Alan Padgett, APU); Short Term Missions – A Post-Modern Phenomena (Willow Creek case study); A Broader Agenda for Mission in a Post-Modern World (Howard Snyder, Asbury); New Technology in Teaching Mission Studies (Scott Moreau, Wheaton). Bring your syllabi to share. For registration information, contact Doug McConnell (630) 752-5164. E-mail: C.D.McConnell@Wheaton.edu.
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CALLING ALL MISSION TRAINERS
At the annual meeting of the Association of Professors of Mission this year the Willow Creek church will be sharing one model of church-based training. Betty Sue Brewster wrote Brigada Today this past week, “We would like to invite other church-based mission trainers to come and interact with us.” The sessions will be at Techny Towers, Techny, Illinois, from the afternoon of June 19 to the afternoon of June 20. Theme: Looking to the Future. Besides the case study, other topics include: Teaching Mission to Post-Moderns, and New Technology in Teaching Mission Studies. For more information, contact Betty Sue Brewster (818) 584-5276 / (818) 398-8252. E-mail: brewster@fuller.edu.
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WHAT A GREAT EXAMPLE OF GOOD SLEUTHING
I just saw a great example of good news-hounding from a participant in the brigada-albania-durres conference (to join, send email to hub@xc.org with only the line,
subscribe brigada-albania-durres ). To see the example, send email to hub@xc.org with only this line in the text of the email:
get brigada albania-news
We list this resource for two reasons —
1. the strife in Albania currently, of interest to many world Christians, and
2. the great example this participant is setting in gathering really super info. from the Internet!
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700+ UNREACHED PEOPLES PROFILES NOW AVAILABLE
Did you hear the news from Baton Rouge??? Bethany is now able to offer the Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles at greatly reduced prices. According to Gabriela, “With a heartfelt desire to distribute the prayer information to as many as possible, Baker Printing is producing the profiles at cost.” Produced on glossy paper, the Unreached Peoples Profiles are high-quality, four page pamphlets of the most current information available on the 1739 peoples on the Joshua Project list. The Profile includes a map, up-to-date political & cultural data and a concise, well-researched write-up that explains who the people are, what their lives are like and how to pray for them. For mixed orders the price is 12 cents per profile and 10 cents for orders of 250 or more of the same profile. Order printed profiles or a catalogue by calling Bethany’s automated service at 504 774 2002, by e-mailing at upg@bethany-wpc.org, or by faxing at: 504 774 2001.
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subscribe brigada
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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
*Brigada Website: Bob Mayhew, Brigada Volunteer, mayhew@xc.org
*Technical Development: Jonathan Marsden, MAFxc jonathan@xc.org
*Brigada Customer Service Manager: Revis Ann Massey, RevisAnnMassey@xc.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!
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