Brigada Today
15 of December, 1995
Some
have asked why we only today "remailed" last
week's Brigada Today. In fact
one user (I won't tell you it was that rascal Greg Fritz from Caleb Project)
even made the crack that we should start calling it Brigada Last Week!
(Funny Greg. Real funny.
) You'll perhaps recall that last week's
"first send" of Brigada Today never actually arrived. There was a pretty
major hub shut-down of CrossConnect's (soon to be MAFxc) primary server.
For the first time in anyone's memory, the relay contingency technology
(that makes sure no mail is lost when the hub shuts down) apparently slipped
and lost a few pieces of mail... and one of those was
last week's Brigada Today. So.. we resent
it Monday morning, once we heard from CrossConnect
that the queue was apparently empty... or "caught up". Now, low and behold,
the relay machine came to life and sent out the original piece of mail,
but dated it today!!!
Sorry for the duplicate mail! (See below re:
MAF's plans for the hub.)
That's right! As of this week,
the folks at AD2000 in Colorado Springs have full 24-hour access to the
INTERNET. Plus, the word on the street is that fully 100% of their
International Board are now connected via private secure conferences, with
all but 1 of the US support team plugged in as well! 70% of all regional
leaders and 100% of all Track/Task Force leaders are in "electronic touch",
so basically, they've only got 7 missing regional leaders. Says Pete
Holzmann, Interactive Task Force Coordinator, "Pray also as these top level
leaders begin to learn how to use new e-mail tools to develop their own
electronic community of ongoing working relationships." Cool.
! MAF has responded by
purchasing a super-fast Pentium machine and a T-1 connection to the INTERNET
backbone and will soon be relocating the entire service to their
headquarters in Redlands, CA. From there, Information Technologists will be
able to monitor and maintain the equipment and service much more
efficiently. So... if you're thinking of subscribing to CrossConnect
(MAFxc), don't give up the ship just yet. (And in case you were wondering,
I'm not a part of MAF and receive no pay from any service performed for
Brigada.) Organizers of the move hope everything will be in place by the end
of the year!
(Correction from last week: Thanks to my friends in South Africa who pointed out that the language there is Afrikaans, not Africans. My apologies!) John Hanna, Caleb Project, Littleton, CO
) that GCN had over 2 million visitors at its web page
http://www.gospelcom.net/ during October. Guess what! The coordinator of
the whole shootin' match wrote a very kind note later to say that they are
now running over 100,000 "hits" daily!!!! Yikes gang. This INTERNET
thing is growing!
Thanks for the update, Quentin!
) For more info., contact the
Vancouver office at (604) 524-9944, Fax c/o (604) 524-4690, e-mail
mfestvan@ansa.com , browse at
http://www.ansa.com/~mfestvan/ or
even write
them (Ha!!! Imagine!) at 7200 Cariboo Road, Burnaby, BC Canada V3N 4A7
in the body of the message text.)
). Justin Long, of GEM, was very kind to reply so promptly, "... As of the
1995 IBMR Annual Statistical Table there were 332,000 foreign missionaries,
4,400 foreign mission sending agencies, 23,000 service agencies (incl. those
4,400), 90 global monolith mission agencies, and 4,207,000 national workers
(of all denominations)." Can you imagine actually being able to count all
those people up!??? I have trouble keeping track of my kids' soccer game
schedule and these guys can probably just about tell us the number of rocks
on the moon!!!
(or at least the web pages about prayers in
October...) Previously, you could find AIMS' 10/40 Window info. at:
http://the700club.org/AIMS/The10-40WindowProject/SubMain.html
But that URL has suddenly ceased working. Now, thanks to the sleuthing
abilities of Stephen Walker, try
http://the700club.org/AIMS/AIMS/The10-40WindowProject/SubMain.html
(In other words, the new URL requires an additional "AIMS" in there. I guess
maybe that means we need to "take AIMS" with a "double-barrel" browser!
[p-dum pah!] 
) Congratulations, Stephen. You get this weeks' "WWW Treasure
Hunter" award!
) Catch this! Normal price is
$10 -- but they'll give it to Brigada readers for U.S. $7.99 !!! I mean, if
we were in Colorado, we would probably be able to write it ourselves, but
until then, [I just called and ordered mine; and in case you were wondering,
we refuse 'freebies' just so people won't think we're promoting this stuff
to get free copies. I paid my $7.99 just like the rest!]
) in hopes of furthering vision,
identification, mobilization, education, cooperation, communication, and
relocation of tentmakers. You can get the paper newsletter by joining the
association, which will run US $50 annually to
Write
ksmith@gati.wa.com for more info. Who knows. If
there's enough interest, maybe they'll start an online distribution of this
newsletter!
TO SUBSCRIBE TO BRIGADA TODAY, send email to
hub@xc.orgwith only the
following message:
subscribe brigada
TO UNSUBSCRIBE (Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
), send email to
hub@xc.orgwith this line
in the text:
unsubscribe brigada
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!
15 of December, 1995
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