Brigada Today
9 of June, 1995
News and Notes about Brigada, Your Gateway to Missions Networking!
Compiled byDLucas@TeamExpansion.org
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BRIGADA'S TOP LEVEL -- 443!
Currently we are 443 in the "top level"!
Check out the Brigada www homepage:
http://www.xc.org/brigada/brigada.html
NEW CONFERENCE MARRIES RESEARCH AND URBAN CONCERN
Moderated by Jack
Dennison of Dawn Ministries, Brigada-Cities-Research is an e-mail activated
conference network made up of interested Christians, churches and agencies
seeking to conduct and gather necessary research for cities to develop a
workable strategy to disciple the city for Christ. This conference will
allow the various networking individuals and partners to report, request
information and resources, share ideas, offer up prayer requests for
research projects, and encourage additional partnerships." To join
Brigada-Cities-Research, send email to
hub@xc.org with only the following
words in the text of the message:
subscribe brigada-cities-research
That's all there is to it. May God use this new tool for the furtherance of
His message to the people of the world's cities!
ARCHIVES AVAILABLE
Thanks to the Billy Graham Center for making its
archives available to the world via the INTERNET. According to the Center,
"Collections include oral history interviews, papers of individuals, records
of organizations (including foreign mission boards) and materials from
congresses and conferences. Guides to some of the Archives' most heavily
used collections are now available on Wheaton College's Gopher. These
include collections with information about American evangelism and
missionary programs in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and
Australia as well as collections on the Evangelical movement in the United
States. Most of the materials in Archives are from the twentieth century."
To use Wheaton's gopher (if your INTERNET connection allows direct access to
gopherspace) simply travel to gopher.wheaton.edu and start exploring! Once
one enters the Wheaton Gopher, select "Wheaton College Information" from the
menu, then "Wheaton College Manuscript Repositories" from the next menu,
then "Billy Graham Center Archives" from the next menu. Then go to the
interlibrary loan submenu. Questions? Write the center using email
address:
bgcarc@david.wheaton.edu or send old-fashioned paper mail to:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Wheaton College
Wheaton, IL 60187
USA
Tel. (708) 752-5910
NEW RESOURCES ON 10/40 WINDOW, ESPECIALLY FOR KIDS!
Thanks to Joey and
Fawn Parish, for volunteering their time to help distribute a new pair of
videos designed to acquaint adults, youth, children with the 10/40 Window.
"Concerts of Prayer Ventura County, has produced 2, six minute video's on
the 10/40 Window that are being used across America by many different
missions agencies and denominations. There is the 10/40 Window for Kids, and
the 10/40 Window for Adults. ... They are $11 each (slow boat to China
mailing) or $14 each priority mail."
In addition, Joey and Fawn have just completed Prayerwalking For Kids, a
six-minute video, based on Steve Hawthorne's book. Narrated by kids, it
teaches children how to pray for a target city.
Questions??? Contact Joey and Fawn Parish, 6673 Sora Street, Ventura,
California, 93003; Tel. (805) 650-3511.
WHERE DID YOU GET THE NAME BRIGADA?
This was one of the most common
questions at the GCOWE meeting in Seoul. Actually, one can retrieve the
following file any day of the year by sending using these commands in a
message to the hub at
hub@xc.org (subject ignored):
get brigada why-the-name-"brigada".txt
Brigada (Bree-GAH-dah) -- "In 1942, Stalin, then leader of what used to be
the USSR, banished some 200,000 Crimean Tatars from their home on the Black
Sea. They were not permitted to return to their homeland en masse until the
early nineties, when the Soviet Union broke apart. Unfortunately, since
their homes had been confiscated by others, the Crimean Tatars were forced
to rebuild entire settlements during the cold winters of 1990 and 1991.
While living in Crimea, we saw, at times, literally dozens of Crimean Tatar
families working together in what they called, in Russian, 'brigadas'
(brigades), helping one another build homes in rapid fashion. They found,
through experience, that working together produces synergy, i.e., the output
is greater than the sum of the inputs. As Bill Taylor writes in Kingdom
Partnerships, '... One draft horse can pull four tons. If you harnessed
two draft horses together, they can pull twenty-two tons.' We need just
this kind of 'brigada' and just this kind of synergy!"
Doug Lucas, Brigada
UP WITH ICCMers
All day today in Upland, IN, at Taylor University,
computer experts gathered to brainstorm, discuss and plan for the future.
Topics ranged from "What is African Missions Resource Center," to "Back to
the Future 2000 (Management needs in the 21st century and how to get there".
The International Conference on Computing and Missions carries on through
June 13. To catch the last day, call Kim Johnson at 317-998-5153 or email
her at
KimJohnson@tayloru.edu and explain when you'd like to arrive.
Beginning on Monday at 3:20, the computer consultants there will be throwing
themselves into planning and envisioning what Brigada could become over the
coming years.
Want to learn more about Brigada? Send email to
hub@xc.org with only the
following words in the text of the letter:
get brigada help-detailed
God bless and have a great week!
BRIGADA TODAY -- 9 of June, 1995
