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Brigada Today is “the missionary helper newsletter!”
Compiled by Doug Lucas <DLucas@teamexpansion.org>, Louisville, KY
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- TESL AND TRAVEL FILES
- MISSIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: REACHING THE UNREACHED
- INSPIRATIONAL FILM ON WILLIAM CAREY
- MORE GREAT DEALS ON FAXING
- FAMILY MISSIONS OPPORTUNITIES
- NOTECARD SALE & FREE GIFT
- MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR ISFM ’99
- TECHTOOLS: TALKING EMAIL
- CAMBODIA MEDIA CONSULTATION
- TO SUBSCRIBE TO BRIGADA TODAY
TESL AND TRAVEL FILES
Remember, to get information on resources for teaching English as a second language (TESL_resources), just send a message to tesl_resources@brigada.worldchurches.org. To retrieve information about great deals on travel & a super list of travel agents, write travel@brigada.worldchurches.org. These addresses were incorrect in last week’s Brigada Today, so we sent out a correction message. We think that most Brigada participants received the correction, but if you didn’t, please make sure you correct the addresses in your notes. Several have written complaining that they couldn’t retrieve the information — be sure to try the corrected addresses first, before writing to complain. Thanks. MISSIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: REACHING THE UNREACHED
INSPIRATIONAL FILM ON WILLIAM CAREY
William Carey is considered to be the father of the modern Protestant missionary movement. Now you can order a new film on his life, Candle in the Dark, produced by Christian history specialists Gateway Films. It’s available now to churches as part of a super Sunday School curriculum for $59.95 or as an individual video. In the USA call 1-800-523-0226 or order the home use video off their web page at: http://www.gatewayfilms.com/cgi-bin/videopg.pl?Alpha+4306s+ or the curriculum at: http://www.gatewayfilms.com/cgi-bin/videopg.pl?Alpha+4289+ If you don’t have access to the web, try writing: info@gatewayfilms.com for info., but remember not to send your credit card information over the open Internet. MORE GREAT DEALS ON FAXING
If you send a lot of faxes, don’t forget about “The Phone Company,” http://www.tpc.int, first profiled in Brigada Today on January 23, 1998. It’s absolutely free! (Thanks for the reminder, Paul!) FAMILY MISSIONS OPPORTUNITIES
NOTECARD SALE & FREE GIFT
You get 12 Cards & Envelopes for only $4.75 per pkg. (normally $7.50 per pkg.). The original Watercolor artwork on the cover is an artistic spray of flowers with fancy title lettering (the artist is Bert VandenBos). There are several titles available, including “Together We Can Accomplish Great Things.” Card Size = 4.25″ x 5.5″ (folded). This Card and others are produced by Kingdom Graphics and can be seen or ordered at their “Secure Credit Card” Web Site: http://www.kingdomgraphics.com…or, if you’re in the USA, through toll-free tel. at 1-800-618-3133 or tel. 215-657-5888. Write kingraph@navpoint.com for more info. Payment must accompany all orders.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR ISFM ’99
TECHTOOLS: TALKING EMAIL
Tim the Tech-Toolman came through again this week with “MyTalk” — telephone-based e-mail! Browse http://www.mytalk.com for more info. MyTalk gives you a free e-mail address, User ID and password, along with a free web-based e-mail account you can check from any web browser. Nothing new there. But, the great part is… you can call a toll-free number (US and Canada) and enter your ID and password and it will READ your e-mail to you! Can you believe it? I think this has some really cool implications for the disabled and those still developing their typing skills. You can control it by talking to it. You can REPLY to e-mail, and it will record the file as a .wav file (no special applet needed to play it back, any Windows user who has sound capabilities can play it by clicking on it). AND it can retrieve POP mail from your regular e-mail account every few minutes and read IT to you too! It even works for America Online. The collection process checks every user’s POP accounts in turn, and then starts over again. According to Tim, it can sometimes require hours to retrieve your email, but if you’re the patient type, this might be just for you!
A caveat: if you pay your regular ISP on a per-minute basis or a so-many-minutes-a-month basis, your ISP may charge you a minute for each time MyTalk checks your mail, so it may use up or charge for one minute out of every, say, fifteen. If you pay a flat rate for unlimited usage, that doesn’t apply.
Another caveat: You can’t INITIATE e-mail, you can only reply to it. So if there are people you frequently send e-mail to, keep a message from them in your received mail folder so you have something to reply to. Thanks for another Cool Tech-Tool, Tim! 
CAMBODIA MEDIA CONSULTATION
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