Brigada Today
3 of November, 1995
Now with over 1280 Participants!
News and Notes about Brigada, Your Gateway to Missions Networking!
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In this issue....
JOSHUA PROJECT PREMIERS!!!
This past week, we asked the Director of Communications to
tell us about the AD2000 & Beyond effort being dubbed, "Joshua Project 2000"
and the associated "Launch" scheduled for the end of this month. Just
yesterday, he sent this Brigada exclusive:
[The following article is by Media and Communications
Director for the AD2000 & Beyond Movement based in Colorado Springs,
Colorado. Thanks for taking time to write, David!]
"The cat is finally out of the bag. The AD2000 and Beyond Movement
introduces Joshua Project 2000, an inter-agency, inter-denominational,
inter-church, step by step plan to see at a minimum, a pioneer church
planting movement within every ethno-linguistic people of over 10,000
individuals by December 31, 2000. A 55 page Joshua Project 2000 handbook
has been written that is now available in the November-December
Mission Frontiers Bulletin. You can
receive MF electronically here on Brigada or
you can request a copy from the AD2000 and Beyond International Office for
the cost of postage. (E-mail
Lauri@ad2000.org or call (719) 576-2000.)
This handbook contains the priority list of 1,685 least reached peoples that
Joshua Project 2000 seeks to produce prayer profiles for, facilitate church
adoptions for, send prayer teams to during the October 1997 Praying Through
the Window III and ultimately see a church planting movement among these
peoples by the year 2000. Joshua Project 2000 is the outworkings of GCOWE
'95 and is the implementation strategy toward the greater goal of a church
for every people and the Gospel for every person by AD2000."
"Pray for the Joshua Project 2000 "Launch" meetings to be held the last week
of this month in Colorado Springs where AD2000 and Beyond core leadership
has been invited to come together to see how the AD2000 tracks/networks and
the national initiatives can all take their share of Joshua Project 2000.
Currently 210 AD2000 leaders will be attending from 83 different countries.
Won't it be great to see Koreans networking with Brazilians to assure that a
church planting movement is established among the 850,000 Qashqai nomads of
Iran, where there in not one known believer, no Scripture translation, no
Christian radio, nor even a Gospel tract. Joshua Project 2000 mobilization
conferences are being scheduled in 1997 in Hawaii, Brazil and South Africa
which Brigada readers might want to attend. More details later."
As David shared above, the
priority list of peoples is about to be released
at the "Launch", near the end of this month. However, because you're "in
the know" and you are a Brigada participant, you can get it today!!! Simply
send email to
hub@xc.org (you guessed that part, right?) with only the
following 2 lines in the body of the message text:
get brigada joshua-list-a
get brigada joshua-list-b
You'll receive 2 ascii files (about 40k or 13 pages each, depending on the
font you assign of course) in what's called "comma delimited" format. If
you simply open them in your word processor, you'll be able to read them
just fine. But if you've got any popular spreadsheet or database, such as
Excel or dBase, you'll be able to import or load them as is and see the data
organized by fields. Naturally, you should append them to see the big
picture, since list-a includes countries which begin with the letters a-k,
with the remainder appearing in list-b. Included are fields for country,
people group name, population, number of Christians, language, and
population in the homeland country. Thanks to Luis Bush and
Dan Scribner of AD2000 & Beyond as well as Matt Benjamin and Ron Rowland
(PIN) for their help in arranging this unique "sneak peak"
for Brigada readers.
WANNA' CHANGE A CITY???
Get Viv Grigg's new book! His fourth and
completely updated 120 page
spiral-bound Transforming Cities: An Urban Leadership Guide,
Viv Grigg, Ed., is now available. It has been developed
as a comprehensive manual for city leadership teams through AD2000 cities
consultations with several hundred leaders over the past four years.
Included are in-city processes, such as prayer movements, building a city
leadership team, events and networks, city strategy congresses, AD2000 City
Network info, adopt-a-city materials, models of global networks and in-city
processes etc. If you want to change a city, order it. An essential tool
for anyone seeking to give leadership to a city. Available from
Urban
Leadership
127 N. Madison Ave
Pasadena, CA91101
or
83/2 Glendale Rd
Glen
Eden, Auckland
New Zealand
for $20 for the cost of the book, postage &
handling and taxes.
GIVE RAMADAN NEW MEANING! - 30 DAYS MUSLIM PRAYER FOCUS
From January 21
to Feb 19, 1996, Muslims around the world will be holding their annual
fasting month known as Ramadan. Now you can participate in a worldwide
movement that seeks to help followers of Christ pray for, learn about, and
reach out to the Muslim peoples of the world, so that they may come to know
God's grace revealed in Jesus Christ. This third annual international
mobilization is an excellent follow-up to the "Praying Through the Window
II" project during the past month of October. Want materials? They're
ready to order. You can get a newly-edited 50-page illustrated Prayer Guide
booklet (with a full-color
cover, available both in adult and children's versions) as well as a special
Video on the Islamic world (approx. 10 minutes, revised and available in
Nov., again, available in both an adult and children's version). Last year
during this same period, a quarter million Muslim Prayer Guides were in use
around the world. You can get a reproducible flyer by contacting
WORLDCHRISTIAN NEWS at
wcn@xc.org or by writing old-fashioned letters to
PO Box 26479
Colorado Springs, CO 80936
USA.
Tel: 1(719) 442-6409
And get this, if you want to judge the book by its cover (I didn't think you
were allowed to do that!) they've even got a web page at
http://www.ywam.org/icn.html
And guess what Canadians! They've even remember you! Canadian residents,
please contact:
30 Days Prayer Focus
PO Box 30024
Westbank, BC V4T 2G7
Canada.
Quebec residents will have to use the
Canadian address . . . at least for now.
HELP US GROW
Some will recall Jonathan Marsden (the technical wizard
behind the hardware and software that makes Brigada possible) saying
previously that he wouldn't consider Brigada to have "arrived" until we had
10,000 participants. This past week he reminded us, as we crossed the 1280
barrier, that we were "1/8th the way to my 10000 target
". Maybe if
we reach 10,000 users he'll do something out of the ordinary like, . . .
take a day off???
Want to help? You know what to do! Share this
Brigada Today with someone else! Thanks for making it possible for us to
avoid advertising costs . . . and keep this a free service!
CMDNet: BRIGADA DOWN UNDER
One of the latest conferences to be set up
under the Brigada banner is the New Zealand-based CMDNet (the facilitating
"organisation" (NZ spelling
) is the entre for ission irection).
According to Bob Hall, CMDNet's moderator, the purpose of the conference is
"to facilitate networking and the spread of relevant missions information
among those in New Zealand (and hopefully in due course Australia and the
South Pacific) who are interested in or involved in cross-cultural
missions." Members of CMDNet will be encouraged:
- to share information on mission resources they have found to be useful;
- raise mission-related questions and share answers or responses to those
questions;
- share testimonies or news items that relate to world missions; and
- download files from CMDNet and make use of the information.
Any readers of Brigada Today in New Zealand, Australia or the South Pacific
who think this might be of interest are encouraged to check it out. The
subscription list stands at 25 already (and includes a couple of Americans!)
To "join up" simply send an internet message to
Hub@Xc.Org with the text:
subscribe brigada-orgs-cmdnet
Thanks to moderator
BobHall@Xc.Org for the
vision and leadership!!!
FOR ALL YOU RICE LOVERS (WHO ALSO READ BIBLES)
Jubilee Tech International
has recently announced the release of the popular Logos Bible Software in
Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Each Asian
version has the same full range of features contained in English Logos
products and can be used to generate Scripture portions and sermon outlines,
as well as for foreign language and TESOL training. For more information
concerning these valuable mission resources contact Mark Bowers at
mbowers000@aol.com Asia Networking & Resource Services, Tel/Fax:
610-918-9393. By the way, you have to make the rice yourself.
GLOBAL GLIMPSE: CHINA REVIVAL
"The fire of the gospel is burning in this
village, and following heavy persecution, every single person has become a
Christian." "Now, when we go on the street, people drop everything to take
part. Many shout while we preach 'We have never heard of such good news. Why
didn't anyone tell us before?' They forget everything and listen for hours."
"In Xinyang district, the number of believers increased from 1,000 to 10,000
in one month." ... We have far too few Bibles and are too weak to train all
the new believers"
Source: DAWN Europa Friday Fax, 39-95
John Hanna, Caleb Project, Littleton, CO
PEOPLE OF THE WEEK
Thanks to Justin Long
JDavidLong@aol.com for his
regular contributions to Brigada-Peoples. He recently began sharing news
about a "People of the Week" (that's a group, not that magazine!) For
example, this past week he shared: "Let's pray for the Hunanese of China.
They have nearly 43 million people, but less than 2% Christian. They don't
have a Jesus film in their own language, although the Jesus film is
available in Mandarin which many of the Hunanese speak. Most don't belong to
any particular religion. There are several denominations and mission
agencies working among them. They are precious in the Lord's sight!" Want
to see more? Join Brigada-Peoples by sending email to
hub@xc.org with only
the following line as the text of the message:
subscribe brigada-peoples
NOVEMBER ADVANCE READY FOR RETRIEVAL
Thanks again to Mark Kelly for a job
well done on the November Advance! You can get the Advance by sending email
to
hub@xc.org with only the following line in the text of the message:
get brigada advance.9511
In this month's issue, you'll find:
THE GOSPEL FOR EVERY PEOPLE-- Dramatic gospel advances in India's Andhra
Pradesh state, Meghalaya state and at Varanasi. Cambodian churches multiply
30-fold in five years. Buddhist advances in Mongolia. Government
resistance to the gospel in Uzbekistan. "Cracks in the wall of Islam."
THE PERSECUTED CHURCH -- 18 believers murdered in Egypt. Extremist Muslims
blew up a publishing house in Bangladesh. Anti-Christian bias in U.S.
immigration, trade offices. Muslim extremists on trial for death of
Pakistani Christian. Pastor, assistant murdered in Chiapas, Mexico.
SPIRITUAL FORCES OF DARKNESS --Algerian elections Nov. 16. Priests, lay
worker murdered in Burundi. Indonesian city bans church bells, hymn
singing. Religious prostitution in India.
REJOICE! -- God protects expatriates who serve him in dangerous places.
Miraculous healing of Muslim village leader opens door for gospel.
PROFILES --
NETWORKING -- Fund established for release of 11 believers charged with
illegally proselytizing Hindus. "World Press Review" article details
horrors of China's "dying rooms." Resources for missions networking,
intercession. New book shares 12 stories from World A Christian leaders.
FRONT LINES -- God's army does not often assault the gates of hell because
it has been attacked and conquered on its own ground. The church will never
rise up in victory until believers choose to honor God with their minds.
AND YOU THOUGHT YOUR TAXES WERE HIGH!!!
This past week, in the
Brigada-peoples-kazakh conference, the moderator there shared a note he had
recently picked up pointing out that a new tax in Kazakhstan was now forcing
expatriates to pay a full 40% of their income to the Kazakh government! For
more information, join by .... you know what to do... send email to
hub@xc.org with only the following line in the text of the message:
subscribe brigada-peoples-kazakh
And next time you have to send in that tax payment, remember our friends
serving in Central Asia!!!
Have a great week!
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hub@xc.orgwith only the
following message:
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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!
3 of November, 1995
