Brigada Today
16 of February, 1996
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POP-UP PRAYER REQUEST
It occurred to me today what a powerful resource
we would have if 2000 people bowed their heads and prayed just now, the
moment they received this Brigada Today, that God would empower his
churches around the world to really finish the task of taking the gospel
to the least evangelized people. It doesn't have to be a long prayer... but
if you could join us just now... even if for a moment, would you?
"Dear Heavenly Father, we love you and adore you... and we want to ask just
now that you'll give us your wisdom, strength, hope and faithfulness in
greater and greater measure, so we can in turn share your love with others.
Empower us to be conduits of your compassion. Fill us with the desire and
undying, unstoppable determination to complete the task of world
evangelization as you've commanded. And when you use us, remove from us the
temptation to seek selfish ambition or glory. We commit just now to giving
all the glory to you, because you so richly deserve it. And now, I
specifically want to lift up the ____ people [fill in the blank!]. Raise up
witnesses both among them and to them.
Use me, if you can, to make a
powerful difference someday soon in their lives. And allow me to be of
some small service in rallying more and more concern and action in sharing
Christ and establishing your church in their midst. Lord, make it an
effective church that can multiply many times over. And Lord, thanks for
hearing and already setting about to answer these prayers. In Jesus'
name, Amen." Thanks man.
THE KAZAKHS HAVE BECOME THE KAZAKS!
I'd better get with the program!
In last week's Brigada Today, we referred to the Brigada-peoples-kazakh
conference which has now been astro-traveled into the realm of
brigada-peoples-kazak. They've changed their conference name to reflect an
official decision on the part of the Kazak people to drop the 'h' off the
end of the name. Bravo, guys. Again, if you have a burden for this people
group, or want to learn more about Marco Polo, join up by sending email to
hub@xc.org with only this line in the text of the message:
subscribe brigada-peoples-kazakh
GLOBAL GLIMPSE
Chinese officials provoke church-planting! The mission
agency Open Doors reports that between 40 and 60 new house churches have
been planted in Peking since November 1994 by Christians from a single
church. The Chinese government originally intended to "tame" a church which
had become uncomfortable for them by replacing pastor Yang Yudong with one
more loyal to the system. Many Christians left the church in protest - and
planted up to 60 new, officially unregistered and unwanted, churches.
Source: Friday Fax, 2. Feb. '95, (c) DAWN Europe,
http://www.tecc.co.uk/jesusa/dawnindx.html
(Global Glimpse is prepared
faithfully each week by John Hanna, Caleb Project, Littleton, CO. Why not
make it a regular column in your church bulletin! Thanks for your tireless
service John!)
HAVE CAMERA, WILL STILL TRAVEL
Don't forget Mike Scott,
Mogulracer@aol.com, who is ready and willing to accompany your JP2000 team
(or other short-term mission group) to capture the best National Geographic style
photos you'll ever see! Check him out... he's reasonable on costs...
willing to negotiate.
HOWDY PARTNERS
(Follow up on last week's
"GOT ANY GOOD RESOURCES ON
DEVELOPING MISSION PARTNERSHIPS?" item.) Great feedback on partnership,
gang. Winner for most recommended approach? INTERDEV, John Rogers
interdev-uk@xc.org.
REDLANDS CONSULTATION ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
(Thanks to Galen
Hiestand
GalenHiestand@XC.org for reporting from the scene!) On January 25-25,
some 70 people gathered at the headquarters of
Mission Aviation Fellowship
to discuss the implications of Information Technology and the ministry of
the Church. Dubbed the "Cyber 70" (or C70 for short) the group discussed
three main topics categorized into Issues, Applications and Training. The
event was purposely structured not as a conference, where people come to
learn something, but as a consultation, where topics were thrown open for
in-depth discussion. Perhaps unlike any previous event, the
consultation actually began one month before the January meetings by
participants sharing over several electronic conferences. By the time they
gathered together, most folks already had been introduced in "cyberspace"
and could "hit the ground running" since they already knew each other's
passion in regards to IT and the Church. Likewise, the consultation
continues on via several electronic conferences dealing with many of the
outcome details to be hammered out over the next several months. Some
of the key "threads" of the discussion were:
- How IT [information
technology] could be the greatest threat AND the greatest tool since the
Tower of Babel in uniting Christians to complete the Great Commission.
- How we must be extra sensitive in applying IT cross-culturally to the
Majority World so that we help decrease and increase the information gap.
- How there appears to be tremendous confusion and lack of clarity among
many organizations (Christian and non) in trying to handle the phenomenal
changes that IT is demanding. How to deal with the increasing overload of
information and messages.
- How IT has tremendous potential in the area of
distance education.
- How to grapple with the tough philosophical
questions regarding IT while simultaneously initiating key applications
benefiting the church and missions.
For more information about the
consultation and the on-going electronic conferences, contact
GalenHiestand@XC.org. Again, thanks Galen and all the rest of the
Cyber70!!!
We can't thank you enough for putting tools like email
conferencing into our hands!
HAVING TROUBLE WITH MISSIONARY SUPPORT?
Now help's on its way! Thanks
to Dave Moody
DM@XC.Org for sending in the following:
One track of the Penetrating the 10/40 Window Unreached Peoples Conference,
March 10-13 1996 in Virginia Beach, VA will be discussing the problems
Churches, Supporters and Missionaries are going through in everyday life in
one of its six sessions. This particular session will discuss problems and
try to present solutions through the interactive discussion of conference
attendees. Many Churches deal with the same problems whether they support
teams in the Middle East or one person in the Europe. Please take the time
to list the problems you are struggling with or have had to walk through in
the past. No situation is to simple or too difficult. We will not mention
names, cities or churches... only the problem itself. Some examples that
have been submitted so far are:
The difficulty of getting material out of country for newsletters.
The difficulty in trying to keep close contact with supporters.
Planning short term trips to unfamiliar countries.
Getting supplies from point A to point B.
Raising support for non church planting missions workers.
How do we get the church interested in our 'adopted people group'
We don't have enough, (money, people, etc_) for a short term trip.....
How can we still go?
Please send any problems you may have by email to
billcover@aol.com or U.S.
mail to Bill Cover PO Box 8547 Norfolk, VA 23503. Thanks guys! You've hit
on a heart strings!
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hayesstw@risc1.unisa.ac.za, now you can! Just send email to
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16 of February, 1996
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