Brigada Today
5 of April, 1996
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News and Notes about Brigada, Your Gateway to Missions Networking!
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In this issue....
VIRUS ALERT!
Thanks to John Hanna, who forwarded a note originally by
Mary Dickens, warning us to watch out for a virus named PKZIP300.ZIP. By
its looks, it would appear on the outside to be an upgrade to the
compression program, PKZip. But on the inside, it erases your entire hard
drive. Bottom line: practice safe computing. Don't unzip or execute
programs until you've checked them with a virus checker and don't take candy
from strangers.
Thanks John.
FREE WEB SPACE
Among the providers of free web space these days is a
network called GEN. Apparently, if you're a nonprofit wanting free space,
you must have an official membership of at least 200 individuals and must be
willing to distribute a GEN brochure to each member at least once. Profit
companies can buy a yearly membership (or monthly) with powerful features
such as unlimited Web pages, unlimited hits, and unlimited autoresponders at
no extra charge. For more information, contact Jim Spelman,
jims@lfa.com,
(614)784-0247
GOT A TENTMAKING/AGRICULTURE STORY?
Share it! Send it to Ken Smith at
KSmith@gati.wa.com for inclusion in the next issue of the Tentmakers
International Exchange (TIE) quarterly newsletter, OpportuniTIEs.
HAVE CARTOONS, WILL SURF
Looking for just the right graphic for use in
your missionary newsletter? Got a graphic you'd like to share? Now, thanks
to Caleb Project's John Hanna, you're in luck! Caleb Project released, this
past week, a new Mission Mobilization Cartoons and Art page on the World
Wide Web. Visit them at
http://www.goshen.net/calebproject/toons.htm and
find GIF files you can use in your newsletter, church bulletin, or just hang
on the wall. Examples include
- godso.gif: For God So Loved... Shouldn't You (a pastor embraces missions)
- hand.gif: All Races in His Hands
- needhim.gif: They Need Him... He Needs You (a call to prayer)
- expand.gif: World Christian Movement has been Expanding (graph)
- ignoranc.gif: Ignorance isn't Bliss, it's Hell (face & flames)
- kingall.gif: Jesus is King of all Races
- needknow.gif: 2000 Years Later, the World Still Needs to Know
- nowait.gif: Reaching for the Unreached, because they can't wait for ever
- racefin.gif: The Goal is to Finish the Great Commission
- super.gif: Missions: Only Super-human Christians Need Apply ...NOT
- carey.gif: William Carey: Reaching Continents (Portrait)
- taylor.gif: Hudson Taylor: Reaching Countries (Portrait),
- townsend.gif: Cameron Townsand: Reaching Languages (Portrait)
Caleb Project
thanks David Transue from Mountain Top, PA for his artistic donations to the
missions community. Check 'em out!!!
ADVANCE FOR APRIL, READY FOR RETRIEVAL!
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of ADVANCE. Just send in the one-line message to
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Here's a summary:
THE GOSPEL FOR EVERY PEOPLE -- Billy Graham's global television broadcast;
day of prayer and fasting for Tibet; the advance of the Kingdom in Cambodia;
strife-torn Sri Lanka and Bangladesh; the underground church of North Korea;
misery in Iraq; elections in Iran; renewal in the West; Project Light in India.
THE PERSECUTED CHURCH -- Two believers killed in the Philippines; Russian
pastor kidnapped in Chechnya; Kuwaiti believer taken to court; gospel radio
stations in Romania; torture, kidnappings, slavery and rape in Sudan.
SPIRITUAL FORCES OF DARKNESS -- Central Intelligence Agency endangers
missionaries; Christian fundamentalist rebels in Uganda; 1 million children
oppressed in Asian sex trade; 10 million Asian AIDS victims by 2015; $25
billion for Africa.
REJOICE! -- Tookenis turn to Christ; 100 new believers in Peru town; Czech
church meets occult resistance; 4,200 independent churches in China; a
Pentecost harvest every four days; 215 new Arab believers in Israel; gospel
progress in the former Soviet Union.
NETWORKING -- pocket-size World A prayer cards; CrossConnect assists
missions and Christian organizations; KGAP conference discusses global
prayer strategy; resource kit for day of prayer and fasting for Tibet;
tentmakers world congress; World Evangelical Fellowship materials list;
unreached peoples mini-profiles; International Aid catalog of missionary
resources; USCWM offers "Reaching Hindus and New Agers"; Muslim awareness
seminars; Missionary Training Programme; International Reconciliation
Coalition for Indigenous People; a convenient, easy way to tap into WWW 250
search engines; more Web sites.
Thanks Mark!!!
GLOBAL GLIMPSE FOR THIS WEEK
Middle East: An Egyptian Muslim young
woman accepted Christ as her Lord and Savior and was given a Bible to read.
She tried to hide it so no one would know that she was reading it. She
went to a cedar chest in her mother's bedroom and put it underneath all the
clothes, but, to her amazement, she found another Bible already hidden
there. Her mother was a secret Believer, and so thankful that after years
of praying, her daughter came to the Lord.
(Source: The Kelley's Chronicles
(newsletter), March, 1996,
102401.231@compuserve.com).
Global Glimpse is by
John Hanna, Caleb Project, Littleton, CO.
REMEMBER THAT "HAVE CAMERA, WILL TRAVEL" GUY?
Well, Mike Scott wrote
this past week to say, "I just wanted to thank you for the appearance in
Brigada regarding photography. Due to Brigada I will be traveling and
helping out mission agencies all over the world with photography." The
thing is, the guy's a glutton for punishment!!! He's still willing to
travel with additional mission teams to do a ministry of photography for the
team. Remember, his travel expenses can be built into the group's budget,
or he'll try to raise them on his own... just write him at
Mogulracer@aol.com. Thanks Mike Scott!
NEED A TRAINER???
Ken Williams wrote to say,
"I'm really enjoying
Brigada! Appreciate what y'all are doing for the Kingdom. I'm Ken Williams,
with Wycliffe Bible Translators for nearly 39 years. My wife and I
translated the N.T. for the Chuj people of Guatemala, then served as a
counselor for 22 years. My current assignment is to help provide training
for other missions. I live in Colorado Springs. I (and others I've trained)
provide workshops for missionaries and missionary leaders, here in the
Springs and elsewhere. We put on five-day Workshops in Interpersonal Skills
twice a year here, and sometimes in other locations. We also have workshops
for those working in missionary care, and for missionary trainers.
... God
bless you, Ken Williams, Ph.D."
If you're interested, contact Ken at
74552.1702@compuserve.com. Ken, we've used one of your training videos
from Wycliffe for years! God bless!
MYANMAR CONFERENCE, PROMISE FOR FUTURE!
Thanks to AD2000 & Beyond for
the continuing efforts to mobilize missions throughout the globe! For the
latest in what Luis Bush and the group are doing, download the update on the
recent
Myanmar conference (March 25-30) and see what a traditional
missions-receiving country can do when it gets involved!!! Just send email
to
hub@xc.org with only the following line in the body of the text:
get brigada ad2000-myanmar
WATCH FOR LAPTOP THEFT!
Overheard this past week on a Brigada
sub-conference (on brigada-projects-training) was this caution: Laptop
owners beware!!! They're after you!!! One scam involves watching you just
after you put your laptop on the conveyor belt. A partner thief steps in
front of you, setting off the metal detector. During the delay, another
partner picks up your computer bag on the other side and that's the last of
it! Also beware when in crowds. Thieves are apparently opening your case
up "pick-pocket style" and walking off with the laptop!!! The other message
here, folks, is to back up data!! Often!
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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,
pmayhew@discover.net
- Technical Development: Jonathan Marsden, MAFxc
jonathan@xc.org
- Brigada Customer Service Manager: Revis Ann Massey,
RevisAnnMassey@xc.org
- Brigada Coordinator: 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!
5 of April, 1996
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