Brigada Today
14 of July, 1995
News and Notes about Brigada, Your Gateway to Missions Networking!
Compiled byDLucas@TeamExpansion.org
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In this issue....
AT "PRESSTIME"
You're one of 547 participants in Brigada's top level
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Conferences
PRAYERS ANSWERED (UPDATE ON LAST WEEK'S LUIS BUSH REQUEST)
Last week, we
included a prayer request by Luis Bush regarding Love South Africa. Now,
this week, we can already report prayers answered! Luis writes...
"Hello friends. Several days I ago I requested your prayers for what was
taking place here in South Africa. I believe God has answered beyond any
expectations.
I believe the spirit coming out of GCOWE in the hearts and lives of the 66
South Africans who lived on and perhaps were even enhanced in LSA 95. The
spirit was an extension of the GCOWE 95 spirit and the implications of the
plans that have been set in motion I believe are enormously significant for
Africa, the least evangelized peoples, the 10/40 Window and AD 2000.
Luis"
We've place the full text of Luis reply (around 12 pages) in the Brigada
file storage area. To get Luis' response, send email to
hub@xc.org with
only the following line in the body of the message:
get brigada bush.950711
That's it! In just a few minutes, check your mail again and Luis' 12 page
response will be there in your in-basket.
OR check out the list here on our Web server:
Luis Bush's response
WATCH FOR MISSION FRONTIERS' JULY ISSUE
Thanks to Rick Wood, who has
placed a
full page on Brigada in his July issue of
Mission Frontiers,
the newspaper/magazine sent out monthly to over 100,000 people around the
world. The article, originally by Debra Wood and printed in a slightly
different form in the
GCOWE Today journal in Seoul, explains subscription
instructions and gives annotated information on several Brigada conferences.
Thanks Rick!
UPDATE ON ENVISION '96
Monday, in Indianapolis, IN, some 1000 leaders
will gather, representing approximately 200 different Christian churches and
churches of Christ congregations from around the world. They're being
called together with the hopes of finding congregations who will each accept
responsibility for a "piece of the unevangelized world." The video, Light
the Window, is a centerpiece in the 90-minute program, but also included
are live testimonies from "case study" churches that have participated in
prototype projects throughout the past 12 months. If planners' prayers are
answered, maybe 5, maybe 10 (maybe more?) will "adopt" least evangelized
regions, cities, or people groups. Caleb Project President Greg Fritz and
colleague Steve Unangst are among the honored guests. Envision '96 hopes to
channel participating churches through Caleb Project's "Research Expedition"
channel in the hopes of securing additional mobilization, strategy, and
prayer assistance. For more updates, join the Envision '96 conference on
Brigada by sending email to
hub@xc.org with only the following line in the
body of the message:
subscribe brigada-projects-envision96
Once subscribed, you can also get "back-issues" of
Points of Departure, a
now-weekly newsletter on the Envision '96 project, mailed each Thursday to
email subscribers around the globe. For example, to get this past week's
POD, send email to
hub@xc.org with only the following line in the body of
the message:
get brigada-projects-envision96 pod.950713
WANT TO SEE AN EXAMPLE OF PRAYER MOBILIZATION?
Join Brigada-Prayer-
Mobilizers and retrieve a copy of Lynn Heatly's
Prayer Connections
newsletter, the report from her Prayer "Command Post". (Thanks, Lynn, for
learning new technology to mobilize prayer warriors!) You can batch the two
commands together like this. Send email to
hub@xc.org with the following
two lines of text in the body of the message:
subscribe brigada-prayer-mobilizers
get brigada-prayer-mobilizers prayer-connections.9507
PROGRESS ON RESEARCHING THE LEAST REACHED
I'm still seeing mail pass by
my desk regarding the fine-tuning of the list of 2500 least reached peoples.
You'll recall that this list was first distributed at GCOWE in Seoul as a
"first draft". Now, it appears researchers and leaders are making progress
in the quest of refining and detailing the list of least reached. If all
goes well, we might see a more
definite list within the next 30 days --
and prayer profiles begin to flow shortly thereafter. When prayer profiles
are finally produced, mission researchers, mobilizers, and on-site workers
will have new material to share with supporters, friends, and prayer
warriors. And the eventual hope, of course, is that teams of on-site
workers will be sent to plant vibrant new fellowships of believers among the
peoples in those lands. You can assist this work today by taking a moment
to pray for those who are helping move these decisions forward. God will
hear and I'm confident He will answer your prayers.
TO GET "BACK-ISSUES" OF BRIGADA TODAY
Are you a recent subscriber? You
can get previous editions of this weekly mailing at no extra charge.
Although Brigada "officially" opened its doors on March 21, 1995, there were
several who participated in a month of "beta mailings" throughout the month
previous to this formal opening. You can get mailings all the back to
February 18, '95, when there were only 38 people involved in the top level
of Brigada! All these back issues are archived in the Brigada file area.
To see a list of files there, send a message to
hub@xc.org with only the
following line of text in the body of the message:
filelist brigada
OR check out the list here on our Web server:
Brigada Today
Pick out the back-issue you're seeking and send email to
hub@xc.org with the
following line (assuming you wanted the back issue named
brigada-today.950218 and that you were also wanting to learn where we got
the name, "Brigada"):
get brigada brigada-today.950218
get brigada why-the-name-"brigada".txt
From the Idea Department: When a new
Brigada Today comes, transfer it to a
unique "folder" within your email client's filing cabinet, or, as an
alternative, select and "clip" it to the clipboard and transfer the issue to
a file in your word processor. Either way (if your email client allows for
searching for a particular piece of text), you can then do "needle-in-a-
haystack" searches to dig up the source for that special video, or that
email address for more information on that prayer resource. Save your back
issues... or maybe go back and get them one at a time every so often and
start a Brigada file cabinet on your laptop!
HAVE YOU BACKED UP YOUR COMPUTER TODAY?
Seriously, our computer here was
hit with a serious hardware failure last week, causing us to see that
dastardly message, "Hard disk boot record invalid." The good news is that
we were backing up every Friday night. The bad news is that it happened on
Friday at 4pm! The company supplied a new hard drive. We restored
everything . . . except the past 7 days!
So now we're backing up every
night! [soapbox mode on] A word to the wise: hardware failure is
inevitable. It will happen, sooner or later. It's not a matter of "if" -
- it's a matter of "when". If you've got
even 8 hours of work on your
computer that you don't want to have to recreate, back it up. [soapbox
mode off]
TO SUBSCRIBE TO BRIGADA TODAY
Simply send email to
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only the following two words in the text of the message:
subscribe brigada
There are now nearly 40 different "conferences" meeting as a part of the
Brigada family of networks. Note that you get to choose which one to
join, based on your interests. To see a full list of the choices, send
email to
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message, without the quotation marks. This Brigada Today is the one
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swap resources.
Have a great day!!!
BRIGADA TODAY -- 14 of July, 1995
