Brigada Today
28 of April, 1995
News and Notes about Brigada, Your Gateway to Missions Networking!
Compiled by DLucas@TeamExpansion.org
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STILL GROWING!
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BRIGADA PARTICIPANT SEEKS NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES FOR NATIVE AMERICANS
Thanks to John GrosVenor for seeking info. on working with native Americans.
"I'm particularly interested in dialogue with other Native American
Christians in this program. So will accept any conversation that comes my
way.... I'm an enrolled member of the Echota Tsalagi (Cherokee) Tribe of
Alabama." If you know of info. for John, send it directly to him at
gros112@uidaho.edu and pray for his wife, who has been diagnosed with
cancer. Thanks John.
HOW SHALL WE THEN LIVE?
AIMS is a mobilization and networking service
based in Virginia Beach, VA. Justin Long, who previously worked with David
Barrett, is helping AIMS with computer programming and research. He wrote
to Brigada this past week....
"How shall we then live? The reality, as of
1990: 1.2 billion people who have never heard the Gospel. 1.7 billion
Christians, representing $8.9 trillion in Global Annual Income. 700 million
Christians believe bringing the Gospel to the world is the paramount
responsibility of the church. 260,000 missionaries labor in Christianized
lands, among the heavily
evangelized, spending $7.5 billion a year. Less than 40,000 workers with
less than $100 million to spend labor among those who have never heard that
Jesus can save. We SAY telling the untold is our priority. We send very few
workers and do little to support them. And while you read this, 7 people
died never knowing that Jesus is Lord. May we truly focus on the "least of
these" -- the ones who have never heard!"
Justin Long,
JDavidLong@AOL.COM
Thanks for contributing, Justin!
ARE YOU A GCOWE DELEGATE HEADED FOR KOREA? NEED EMAIL ACCESS IN SEOUL?
If you're a Compuserve subscriber and $15/hour sounds good to you, you're
already all set. However, if you'd like a higher volume possibility for a
flat fee of $50, send a one-line request to
DLucas@TeamExpansion.org for more info.
LEAST EVANGELIZED PEOPLES LIST WILL GIVE DEFINITION TO THE TASK REMAINING
The list of the 2400 Least Evangelized People Groups mentioned in last
week's Brigada Today will give definition to the task remaining. Released
by Ron Rowland and the Peoples Information Network, the list provides a
blueprint for just how much of the task remains. For example:
- 101 different
groups are listed for China alone, with a total population of 242,148,114
people.
- In India, 803,587,708 people are listed in 233 groups.
- In Indonesia, 154 groups are listed with a total of 96,391,469 members.
- Sudan alone is the home of 111 groups totaling 30,326,834 people.
Put all 2400
groups (actually 2468) together and what do you have? 2,505,364,391 real
live souls, many of which are totally out of touch with a valid opportunity
to know Jesus as a personal savior. Again, thanks to Ron, PIN, and all
who participated in this effort. May God bless John Robb and the many
others who will be trying to help us finish the task of giving them at
least a beachhead opportunity to hear the gospel. Let's stop and take a
moment to pray for the groups that will be meeting in Seoul... and all over
the globe in the months ahead, with hope of helping in this tremendous and
all important task.
FIRST WAVE OF TROOPS LEAVE FOR GCOWE
They're already departing! Pete
Holzmann left this past week. And in the coming days, the entire Int'l
office for AD2000 & Beyond will literally be packed up and moved to Seoul!
Pray for the AD2000 leadership as they make their way to Korea and ask God
to smooth the road before them.
SAMPLE OF A BRIGADA CONFERENCE
Are you wondering just what goes on in
those layers under this 'top level' in the Brigada family of networks?
Here's a sampler. A conference moderator from Dayton, Ohio, writes asking
members of a new conference to introduce themselves (this sample discussion
comes from the brigada-peoples latam conference, but the same thing can
happen for your target area!). A missionary writing via Compuserve from
Montevideo answers back the following day with an introduction, expressing
his desire to learn all the more about materials produced in Spanish for
Latin America and especially, for continued research on 'folk religions' in
South America. A few hours later, another conference participant, this time
writing via the INTERNET from Guayaquil, Ecuador, answered back with a
description of a continent-wide conference next year that will, as a major
prong of its intended purpose, hope to provide a forum for sharing printed
materials. He also wrote, "On the folk part of religion, I would highly
recommend the book published by Baker called
Communicating Christ in Animistic Cultures by Dr.
Gailyn Van Rheenen. I have read the book and have
seen the movie (taken his class). He teaches at ACU. Also the
book Crisis in Latin America touches on the
Catholicism. It is put out by Moody Press
and the authors are Nunez and Taylor." Now perhaps for some, those books
are already on the shelf, well-worn. For others, Brigada can
provide just
the networking they need to be all the more effective at reaching their part
of the world for Him. Thanks to Eric, Larry, Bill, and the others on the
brigada-peoples-latam conference (13 participants) and thanks to the over
300 others who are making Brigada
work today to give a brighter hope for
the world tomorrow!
GLOBAL PRAYER DIGEST ONLINE JUMPS TO 65 SUBSCRIBERS
Thanks to the
personnel of the US Center for their continued work for the kingdom! On a
daily basis, they keep pumping out the prayer and mobilization information,
and the Global Prayer Digest, both in print and online, is an excellent
example. To join the 65 others who have already subscribed, send email to
hub@xc.org with only the words
subscribe brigada-pubs-globalprayerdigest
in the text of the message. By the way, the Mission Frontiers staff is
hard at work preparing to go online too! So while you're at it, add this
line as well...
subscribe brigada-pubs-missionfrontiers
Subscribers will receive an index via email, allowing them to download
just the articles they want.
Have a great day!
BRIGADA TODAY -- 28 of April, 1995
