Brigada Today
8 of December, 1995
Try Brigada-techsupport!
I mean, Larry alone has worked as a building engineer (electrical
systems) for the local phone company 17 years, and now for Sprint. He's a
flight instructor, a ham radio operator, he's made short term mission trips,
he reads Appropriate Technology Sourcebook micro-fiche instead of looking at
Baywatch reruns, he's wired transfer switches, buildings, lights and phones,
installed well pumps, solar water heaters (See? I wasn't making all that up
about the... uh... what was that model number again?)
, directed building
crews, repaired washers, dryers, ovens, refrigerators, generators, installed
base and mobile VHF radios & antennas and even driven a school bus down to
Nicaragua. (I was concerned until I got to the school bus thing. I mean,
any guy that can drive a school bus through Central America has got to be
in line for the next Indiana Jones movie!)
The welcome screen for Brigada-techsupport says that Larry and the bunch
"seek to provide these answers from stateside technically oriented
individuals and other missionaries' field experience to solve some of the
problems that consume a great deal of the field persons' time, such as
appliance repair, construction questions, electrical systems (including
generators/battery storage, solar), radio/telephone systems, and any other
general technical areas where direct on-site review is not required. Also
included will be questions regarding how to use email, email conferences,
and INTERNET groups (Brigada in particular)." (Let's sing the Doxology!
These people are even going to help with Brigada tech support!!!) So
remember, just send your email Maytag repair question to
brigada-techsupport@xc.org -- but
first send an email to hub@xc.org with
only the line,
subscribe brigada-techsupport
Welcome Larry and crew!!!
THE GOSPEL FOR EVERY PEOPLE -- Pushing back the darkness in India. 10 millionth Bible published in China. House churches continue to grow rapidly in Beijing. Movements of God's spirit among tribal peoples of Vietnam. First contact with nomadic tribe in Indonesia. 50,000 letters each month from Hindus in India. Coca-Cola vows "a Coke in the hand of every person by the year 2000." Praying Through the Window III in October 1997.
THE PERSECUTED CHURCH -- Gunmen murder Pakistani believer. Pakistani believer dies in police custody. Muslim extremists kill French religious worker in Algiers. Chinese Christian doctor sentenced to three years labor. Believers arrested in Jiangxi. Lay missionary murdered in Brazil.
SPIRITUAL FORCES OF DARKNESS -- UN report condemns slavery, forced labor in southern Sudan. Unprecedented crime wave in China. Girls oppressed among India's Banchcara people. Children in south Asia's carpet industry sweatshops. Dutch appeals court drops murder charge in infanticide.
REJOICE! -- Muslim efforts to discredit Christianity backfire. Jesus film shown in Middle East mosques. Open-air meeting in India's Gujarat state results in 5,000 decisions for Christ. 15,000 Africans accept Christ each day south of the Sahara.
PROFILES:
NETWORKING -- Joshua Project 2000. Research resources sought. 30 days of
prayer for Muslims. Involving children in prayer walks. 20-minute Islam
video. Unreached people group resources. Video seminar trains missions
leaders. Explore '96. Strategically evangelizing cities. The Religion or
Belief Information Network. On-line subscription to Mission Frontiers.
Rescuing baby girls from Chinese orphanages.
FRONT LINES: The captivity of discontent
TO RETRIEVE THIS MONTH'S ADVANCE, simply send email to
hub@xc.org with
only the following line in the body of the text:
[The word "get" is the command, "brigada" is the file area, and
"advance.9512" is the file name. Make sure you observe case. (Case is
significant when handling file names!)]
Achenese
Baghdad
Sudan
get brigada advance.9512
JOSHUA PROJECT DATABASE EXECUTABLE IN PROCESS
And probably a better approach is to just not execute attached executable
files (those ending in *.exe or *.com or *.bat) unless you know the person
who sent them! AOLGOLD only does something minor like erase most of your
hard drive. No big deal.
Okay. So grab the calculator. Let's say we've got
10,000 people groups in the world, . . . just to pick a round number, okay?
And our buddy Justin Long says we're way low on our missionary body count.
He says minimum 200,000 -- maybe 400,000. So let's go with his low number.
[punch punch click click] So I get 20 per group. What do you get? So let's
say 1685 of those groups are the "least reached". They tell us that half of
those groups don't have a single missionary working among them from any
persuasion. Justin says to me, Doug -- they're not just under 5%
evangelical! They're
under 5% Christian -- where Christian is the
broadest definition you can muster. Now just for good measure, add in the
churches (congregations) in your town. I live in Cincinnati. We've got
... let's see... 369 million, I think. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a
little, but you get the idea. Hey, even if we were all Communists, this
idea would never fly. We'd have to spread some ideology around to make
things even out. Hmmmm.. How can we sleep at nights!
Have a great week!
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following message:
subscribe brigada
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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
People of the Week: Justin Long, GEM/Barrett Office, JDavidLong@aol.comADVANCE: Mark A. Kelley, Kainos Press, 70420.1057@compuserve.comWeb Wizard: Bob Mayhew, Brigada Volunteer, mayhew@xc.orgWeb Art: Patti Mayhew, pmayhew@discover.netTechnical Development: Jonathan Marsden, MAFxc jonathan@xc.orgCommunications: Revis Ann Massey, rmassey@post.cis.smu.eduCompiler: Doug Lucas, Team Expansion & Brigada, DLucas@TeamExpansion.organd many other occasional contributors too numerous to mention! But
thanks for working together! That's the dream of Brigada!
8 of December, 1995
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