Brigada Today
22 of Sept., 1995
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News and Notes about Brigada, Your Gateway to Missions Networking!
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In this issue....
"WEB SITES YA GOTTA' CHECK OUT" FOLLOW-UP
Last week we shared Greg
Slade's "find" at http://bible.acu.edu/ctt. This past week he informed us that the URL:
http://bible.acu.edu/ctt/ctt-home.htm
is a better way to access the page, since it retains more in-document links.
Try it!
"SUPPOSE WE KNOW THIS TRILINGUAL GIRL..." FOLLOW-UP
Thanks to the several
who contacted us immediately after our mention of a trilingual willing
servant, in last week's Brigada Today. By the end of the day last Friday,
calls were already going out to her!!! In addition, we think a possible
moderator (for the newly proposed conference on placement in Christian
opportunities) has been secured.
THANKS FOR THOSE WHO WROTE RE: "THIS WEEK'S [ATTEMPT AT] HUMOR"
Thanks to
the half dozen readers who immediately sent notes regarding the
inappropriateness of last week's "joke". They pointed out accurately that,
- at least one of the names mentioned has not been convicted as guilty,
- all the men are black, thus possibly portraying blacks in a bad light, and
- Brigada is a family of networks about missions and that kind of humor
has no place here.
Wow. Sorry gang. I mentioned to those who wrote that I
was so naive that it didn't even occur to me that all 3 guys were black and
that the joke might be sending a message to those sharp enough to listen for
it! As a result, I'm asking for your forgiveness in posting the joke in
this venue. It has already been removed from the worldwide web version.
GLOBAL GLIMPSE
The largest prayer initiative in the history of the
Church will be this October. Fifty million believers worldwide will
participate in Praying Through the Window, II: The 100 Gateway Cities. As
of August 31, 99 of the 100 cities are scheduled to be visited by a prayer
team and 95 are slated for two or more teams. Beirut, Lebanon is the only
city still without a team registered. [See update below!]
Source: Brigada-Mission-Mobilizers email conference, 9/14/95 From: AD2000 and Beyond Movement
John Hanna Caleb Project Littleton, CO
BEIRUT IS NOW COVERED!
Thanks to Mark Patterson, of Global Mapping, Inc.,
who was faithfully reading his Brigada Today when he noticed there weren't
any prayer teams marked down for Beirut. He immediately put the Christian
Information Network in touch with a friend who happened to be taking a group
over this fall. He was sure they'd make a portion of their trip into a
prayer journey and he was right! Now, as a result of working together,
all 100 Gateway Cities will be covered by on-site prayer teams!
BRIGADA CONFERENCING PROTOCOL NEEDED
The following message was recently
overheard on one of our sub-conferences:
"Please, please, will everyone please put a footer on outgoing messages so
that readers can be assured that they have the whole message! I don't want
to rattle anyone's cage nor upset their day, but I would like to know that I
have it all and that something has not been lost in transmission.
...
"Please also keep private messages off the net.
"As long as I am on my soapbox, I will also ask that we not begin our
messages with, "Dear Dick..." Who's Dick? Also, if we are replying to a
question or anything, it will be most helpful to quote enough of the prior
text so that the reader knows what's going in, otherwise it is as so much
blather and clogging up the airways.
"Please, also, may we not perpetuate a subject line through several incarnations
to the point where it no longer bears any connection to the subject at hand.
"I really believe in networking for my work would be literally and truly
impossible without it. Brigada and its sub-conferences was an idea long
overdue in coming and my hat is off to everyone responsible for its creation
and ongoing operation. But, it will make it easier for everyone if we can
observe some few guidelines of protocol.
"Please take my words in the spirit of helpfulness that they are offered
even though some spirit of frustration cannot be avoided.
"I recommend that someone in authority prepare a set of protocol guidelines,
the observing of which will make networking easier for everyone. I
know that this is anathema to some but they do help."
[Thanks to Dave Nesmith for a heroic job getting us started in this work!]
The above already form the basis for some primary protocol for participation
in multiple-speaker conferences. ("Mailing list" conferences, such as
Mission Frontiers won't get quite as much out of this discussion, of
course.) If you'd like to add more, please send it to
BrigadaCoord@xc.org
with subject line "Protocols". We'll try to assemble a standard set that
can be downloaded by any and all interested. Thanks!
SEND IN YOUR BEST "100 GATEWAY CITIES PRAYER EMPHASIS" IDEA
Compose a
paragraph about how your church is rallying to feature the 100 Gateway
Cities of the 10/40 Window in "Praying Through the Window II" and send it to
BrigadaCoord@xc.org this week, with subject
line, "100GWC Ideas". We'll
feature the top ten in next week's Brigada Today. If your idea is used,
you'll get a free Brigada t-shirt. (As always, neither Brigada employees
nor their families are eligible to compete.) [Of course there are no
Brigada "employees"! In fact, there aren't even any t-shirts!!!
] Don't
forget to include an idea or two about how you will not lose sight of
praying for the 100 Gateway Cities personally.
HOW TO REACH 10,000 BRIGADA PARTICIPANTS
Well, we all know how we could
reach the 10,000 subscribers mark. With just four partcipants short of 1000
readers this week, we could reach the 10,000 mark very easily if you were to
just forward this Brigada Today to 9 or 10 others and invite them to
participate. Make sure they know to send email to
hub@xc.org (not
DLucas@TeamExpansion.org and not brigada@brigada.org) with only this line:
subscribe brigada
That's it!
WANT TO START AN EMAIL CONFERENCE OR NEWS LIST ON YOUR GATEWAY CITY?
It's
easy.
- Join CrossConnect by sending a note to
Cathleen@xc.org. She'll send you
detailed information about how to do it. It's $52/year and gives you a
"friendly" email address (after which your email is "forwarded" through
CrossConnect to whatever service you choose to use that day or week or
month!), conference moderator privileges, etc.
- Send a note to
BrigadaCoord@xc.org explaining the city or people group
for which you'd like to moderate a list or discussion. You'll soon receive
easy step-by-step instructions (with lots of examples) on how to create the
new conference.
- Send the create commands to
BrigadaCoord@xc.org for final error-checking
and consistency cross-checks. Within 48 hours or so, you'll be in business!
There are no "per message" fees or on-going monthly charges to either you,
your network, or your users.
Questions about CrossConnect and its policies??? Write
Cathleen@xc.org.
Questions about Brigada conferences? Write
BrigadaCoord@xc.org.
Thanks!
Have a great week!
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BRIGADA TODAY IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FOLLOWING TEAM OF REGULAR VOLUNTEERS:
- Global Glimpses: John Hanna, Caleb Project, jhanna@cproject.com
- ADVANCE: Mark A. Kelley, Kainos Press, 70420.1057@compuserve.com
- Web Wizard: Bob Mayhew, Brigada Volunteer, mayhew@xc.org
- Web Art: Patti Mayhew, c/o mayhew@xc.org
- Technical Development: Jonathan Marsden, CrossConnect jonathan@xc.org
- Compiler: Doug Lucas, Team Expansion & Brigada, DLucas@TeamExpansion.org
- and many other occasional contributors too numerous to mention! But
thanks for working together! That's the dream of Brigada!
22 of September, 1995
