Brigada Today
5 of May, 1995
News and Notes about Brigada, Your Gateway to Missions Networking!
Now with 345 Participants!
Compiled byDLucas@TeamExpansion.org
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STILL GROWING!
Below is a chart with the number of 'subscribers' to the
top level of Brigada (this Brigada Today update). (To view the chart
correctly, make sure you view this email in a 'fixed font', like Courier
New, rather than a proportional font like Arial.) We're almost to 350!
Today!
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Num Participants 2 58 76 95 106 234 252 270 305 321 345
Date in 1995 1/25 3/3 3/10 3/17 3/24 3/31 4/7 4/14 4/21 4/28 5/5
Notes: Brigada officially "opened for business" on March 21, 1995.
| = approx. 50 participants
NAVIGATION MAP
[We have to say this stuff again for the new subscribers
and the friends to which you'll be passing this Brigada Today!] Below is a
chart to point to the conferences established thus far. Each line
represents an entirely different conference, with an entirely different set
of participants. You can be a member of more than one conference, but to do
so, you must subscribe to each conference individually. Subscribing to the
top level Brigada conference does not automatically get you mail from each
of the subgroups. Remember that you can figure out the name of any
conference by starting at the top and left and working over. To subscribe
to any of the conferences below, just send email to hub@xc.org
with the word
"subscribe", followed by the conference name (include the hyphens in the
conference name, but lose the quotes in "subscribe"). For example, to
subscribe to the first subconference listed, your message to
hub@xc.org
would read,
subscribe brigada-albania-durres
KURDS COMING TO CHRIST
Thanks to Bob Skiles, who sent word that over 100
Kurds had recently come to Christ in one of the greatest "people movements"
of our day. "It seems that it is definitely the Savior's hour and the
appointed time for the Kurds. Let's pray that God would multiply it and
increase it!" Amen! Thanks Bob.
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previously $50/year for a written subscription is now free via the INTERNET!
To subscribe to this up-to-the-minute news source, email Don Norton at
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ADOPT-A-PEOPLE CLEARINGHOUSE TO DEMONSTRATE PEOPLE-PROFILER
If all goes
as planned, Bob Binkley of the AAP Clearinghouse will be demonstrating a new
tool at GCOWE. Marv Bowers and others have worked together to develop a
piece of software that fits on a floppy and stands alone. Execute it and it
walks you through the process of developing a standard description of a
particular people or city in such a way that the information will be
consistent with other reports from around the world. Using this disk,
anyone, anywhere will be able to generate people profiles according to the
specified model preferred by the AAPC. Look for Bob at the AAPC booth.
... AND THE PEOPLES INTERACTIVE DATABASE
Bob will also be showing a
sample of the new Peoples Interactive Database application that he has
developed on behalf of the AAP Clearinghouse. With this application, a user
can find out which mission organizations, churches, or individuals are
working among a particular people or city. One can search according to
several keys and look up "needle in a haystack" data. Again, find Bob at
the AAPC booth with Frank Kaleb Jansen.
A "LONG" CORRECTION
Forgive our mix-up last week. Justin Long used to
work with AIMS but now works with David Barrett! We reported it the other
way around. Our apologies. Thanks to Justin for not being angry!
TAKING "AIMS" ON TARGETS IN FUTURE
In a phone interview yesterday, we
learned more about what AIMS is aiming for. Lawrence Schrank explained that
AIMS is an affiliate of CBN and is "charged with the task of developing
ongoing strategic partnerships with our current 106 member agencies
regarding missions focused concerns. Dr. Foltz our founder, is professor of
missiology at Regent University. Dr. Barrett has recently joined him on the
staff at Regent. We are going forward with plans to use Web technology to
help facilitate interest in missions. As my personal background is in 3-d
computer visualization, I have for years waited for an opportunity to put it
to work for the kingdom. We currently have several world class technologists
consulting on the various projects we envision. You can see our meager
efforts on the Web ...
http://beacon.regent.edu/AIMS/home.html
There is much,
much more to come!" Specifically, Lawrence hopes to create a separate set
of multi-media rich pages on the www for each of the least evangelized
people groups, beginning with the people groups living in the 100 Gateway
Cities. In keeping with its goal of reducing duplication and fostering
networking partnerships, Brigada wants to encourage and spur on Lawrence and
his efforts at AIMS. Lawrence feels the same way. Although AIMS places top
priority on offering services to the churches and agencies that have
"joined" AIMS ($240/year), the staff there desires to create links and
networks with every effort to reach the unreached. Watch AIMS over the next
few months and get ready for some exciting developments with them riding
shotgun in this great global adventure!!!
PRAYING THROUGH THE 100 GATEWAY CITIES OF THE 10/40 WINDOW
... is ready
to order from the Christian Information Network, 11025 State Hwy. 83,
Colorado Springs, CO 80921 (Tel. 719-522-1040). Send a check for the amount
of $8.95 and make sure you note clearly that you want PRAYING THROUGH THE
100 GATEWAY CITIES. (They have other books that cost the same amount.)
Written by Pete Wagner, Stephen Peters, and Mark Wilson, this book will
"walk you through the window!" As you probably have already heard, the
"window" refers to an area between the 10th and 40th latitudes stretching
from N. Africa east through Asia. Most of the world's Muslims, Hindus and
Buddhists live there, perhaps making up as much as 95% of the unevangelized
world! In addition, 84% of the world's poor are there as well. Keep in
mind that this is not a tightly organized "box" window, but rather, a
roughly circumscribed general metaphor that will help us draw attention to
some very needy places. Also, remember that there are unreached people
living all over the globe, on every continent, in every country. It's just
that the 10/40 window seems to have less opportunity to hear and obey at
this time.
WATCH NEXT WEEK FOR THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SPECIAL GCOWE UPDATE "CHANNEL"
Get up-to-the-minute reports on what's happening at the Global
Consultation on World Evangelism, free, right here through the Brigada
family of networks. In an effort to help our cost-conscious subscribers who
won't want to get the near daily GCOWE briefings, we're creating a special
GCOWE "News Channel". Watch next week for instructions on how to jump on
board if you want to "read all about it!"
BRIGADA TODAY
5 of May, 1995
