Brigada Today
28 of July, 1995
News and Notes about Brigada, Your Gateway to Missions Networking!
Compiled byDLucas@TeamExpansion.org
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"GET A LOAD OF THIS" DEPARTMENT
Thanks to John Hanna for making his
"Global Glimpses" available to us! Yesterday, he relayed..., "Global
Glimpse: Since the Gulf war, 500,000 Bibles and Scripture portions have
been imported into Iraq, and Baghdad is allowing limited numbers of Bibles
and Christian children's books to be printed there. Expanding religious
freedom in Iraq has allowed the Jesus film to be broadcast in Arabic over
Iraqi national television and in Kurdish over northern Iraq television.
(Source: P. 3, July, 95, Intercede, Center for Ministry to Muslims,
Springfield, MO, USA)
2 ENVISION '96 "PACE" CHURCHES ALREADY FORMING NETWORKS
Thanks to the
initiative of some of their respective church leaders, at least two
Envision '96 PACE churches (2 out of 155) are already demonstrating enough
initiative to suggest that God is about to do something very wonderful
during this project. Over 50 users have already subscribed to find out more
about that this initiative. To subscribe, send email to
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HAVE YOU SEEN ATLAS GIS?
Are you a map-fanatic??? You need Atlas GIS.
You can buy it directly from Global Mapping for $199.95, configured for
Windows 3.1. Draws maps for states, countries, regions, ... the works. For
another $199.95, you can get GMI's Global Mission Base Map CD, version 1.1.
This gives you tons of extra data to play with, including some really cool
custom work GMI has done. Atlas isn't necessarily an easy program to learn,
but once we get it going, it'll be really handy to read in all these data
that John Gilbert and GMI and others are preparing. To reach GMI, call (in
the USA) 800-569-6312; FAX 719-548-7459. (By the way, they didn't ask me to
mention them, and I don't get a cut. 
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RUSSIAN FONTS, DRIVERS, PROOFING TOOLS, OCR, TRANSLATION, ETC.
If you're
into Russian (instead of maps ), call (in the USA) 1-800-256-4814 (or
fax 714-552-1699) and ask for a catalogue from Smartlink. These guys are
great. They can help your computer become a Russian workhorse -- typing
Russian, reading Russian (via a scanner and optical character recognition
software), spell-check Russian, translate Russian (hey -- even if it only
automates about 50-80% of the process, think of the sheer time that'll save!
!!), and teach Russian. (We don't get a cut, and they didn't ask us to
advertise them.)
HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN SINCE YOU DARED A CHURCH TO TAKE A CHALLENGE?
[soapbox mode on] [disclaimer tag on] Keep in mind, we're still early on in
this Envision '96 thing. So it's too early to predict with certainty how
things are going. [disclaimer tag off] But one thing's for sure. These
church leaders were ready to be challenged. Imagine getting leaders
together from 200 churches and asking them to each consider taking
responsibility for starting a multiplying church movement in one of the 100
Gateway Cities or some least evangelized people group from the list that
Luis Bush and Ron Rowland and others are preparing. I figured we'd be lucky
to have five (5) sets of church leaders who would even come to such a
luncheon, let alone listen! Instead, we reach our goal of having 200 show
up to hear the presentation! So we ask them to complete a Response sheet
and we're interested in all the commitments we've numbered 1-10, but numbers
4 and 6 are key. The exact wording was:
"4) Commit -- It is my personal vision to see our congregation commit to
planting a vibrant new church in a "piece of least reached world." We want
to help with a "piece of the wall!" As God gives me strength, I commit to
allowing His power to work within me to bring this to reality." and...
"6) Count me in! I'll do everything I can to help our church decide to join
the Envision '96's PACE effort!" (PACE is the project name)
Now imagine, again... I figured we'd be super lucky to have 5 sets of
leaders say yes... but gang, 3 out of 4 sets of leaders checked either #4 or
#6 or both! I mean... wow! WOW! Imagine if each of us went out and
dared a congregation... or congregations(!) to tackle this. Now maybe 155
churches won't end up with an on-site team in 3 years.. Okay. Bring me back
to reality. But the intention is there. These churches were ready to be
challenged.
I think we're seeing the Spirit of God move upon our globe. All the prayers
have not been in vain. God is moving people to care and respond for the
sake of the least evangelized people of the world. Now we need the Sauls
and Barnabases who will encourage them onward to pick up the flagpole and
raise it high!
[soapbox mode off]
If you're interested in seeing how idealistic we are with these 155
congregations, check out the brigada-projects-envision96 conference by
sending mail to
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text:
subscribe brigada-projects-envision96
God bless!
Have a great week!
28 of July, 1995
