Brigada Today
30 of June, 1996
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News and Notes about Brigada, Your Gateway to Missions Networking!
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GET THE WHOLE STORY ON REENTRY
I'm really proud of Kevin Paszalek
who has gathered and reported on reentry
(cross-cultural readjustment) issues. You can get his whole report by
sending email to
hub@xc.org with this one line in the text of the message:
get brigada reentry
Great job, Kevin!! Thanks for following through!
LOOK WHO'S TALKIN'!
Following last week's item about Microsoft's new
NetMeeting software
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/download/MSNETMTG.exe the
people at Microsoft must have taken a real hit on their server! I took a
few moments later that evening to experiment again with this new audio
conferencing tool and saw several Brigada participants' names in the server
list! In fact, I struck up a conversation with one fellow I hadn't seen
since he was a missions grad student at a seminary I visited years ago! Once
again, all you need is a microphone, speakers, an Internet connection (28.8 or
faster works best) and some time. Arrange a meeting with a friend today!
DID YOU KNOW... (FUN FACTS TO KNOW AND TELL)
Your mail has me rolling
in the floor! What originally started as an off the cuff joke ("Does water
really go down the shower drain in the opposite direction when you switch
from the north to the south hemisphere?") has proven to be quite an item of
curiosity for more people than I realized! Take Mike Stevens' note for
example. He says the whole thing is upside down anyway, since the original
map got it wrong! "The Planet Earth is a magnet, right? Well, it is now
possible to measure magnetic waves and determine which pole of the planet is
magnetic North. Guess which magnetic pole is located at the geographical
North Pole? Yes you are correct - it is in fact the South Magnetic Pole. So,
we in Europe are in fact 'down under' and the 'antipeodeans' are really
living on top of the world. We always wondered what it was about the
colonial mapmakers
."
But the best response of all came from Ken Bertel of SAIC, who pointed out
that if you live + or - 5 degrees from the equator (Papua New Guinea for
example), water goes straight down the drain with no whirl pools! I mean,
this guy even knew the scientific name for the whole discussion (the
"Coriolis effect"??), which kind of made me feel more intelligent for having
asked the original question! (Course, it didn't do a lot to persuade my
wife that it was an intelligent question! She thinks we're all nuts for
even caring!
) I just wish you could have all seen her face when I
started reading excerpts from Ken's response: "Water in the sink is really
traveling from west to east at approx. 1000 miles per hour near the equator
due to the rotation of the earth. And the water at the north side of the
sink is traveling at the same speed as water at the south end of the sink
because the surface of the water is parallel to the axis of rotation of the
earth...." (This guy's got to be a science professor somewhere!
) So
ANYWAY, thanks to our globe trotting friends who have helped solve this
mystery about the water... and had some fun along the way! And thanks to
Bob Hall's web page that spawned the whole discussion. And by the way,
don't forget to check out Bob's "new" page
http://www.cmd.org.nz/new.html,
which includes everything from book reviews to articles to missions
opportunities and up to date missions info!
WANT TO KNOW THE WHOLE STORY ABOUT HUSSEIN?
Have you been following
the news about Robert Hussein, a Muslim who became a follower of Jesus, now
sentenced to death because of his outspoken witnessing for Christ? To get
the whole story, send email to
hub@xc.org with this one line in the message:
get brigada hussein
INDONESIAN MOBS DESTROY PROTESTANT CHURCHES
To get the whole story on
the destruction of ten Protestant church buildings in Indonesia by Muslim
rioters, send email to
hub@xc.org with only this line in the text of the
message:
get brigada mobs
GLOBAL GLIMPSE FROM ETHIOPIA
A tribe in Ethiopia, the Tarra, was not
surprised when a missionary arrived in their village. They had had a vision
that a man would come with a book and that they should listen to him. When
the missionary first met with the tribe's chief, he was given permission to
stay and later given a plot of land to build a church. But the tribe's witch
doctors would not let him, and instead began building a temple there. On the
day the temple was completed, wind and lightning destroyed it and the witch
doctors left. The church then was built, but the burned-over plot remains as
a reminder of the powers of God. About 70 tribe members became Christians in
the past year.
(Source: Ves Sheely of the Worldwide Leadership Council, via
NIRR 6/24/96
http://www.goshen.net/NIRR/current.html, Copyright 1996
Religion Today, Inc. P.O. Box 21505, Roanoke, VA 24018-0560.
Global Glimpse
is compiled each week by John Hanna, Caleb Project, Littleton, CO.)
THANKS TO THE MODERATORS! (Part II)
As we said last week, without the
help of dozens of moderators, the Brigada dream of working together would be
impossible! Each "family" or network of Brigada participants depends
heavily on a volunteer (a Moderator) to oversee the administrative concerns
of that particular conference. These moderators receive no pay and, at
times, little thanks for the hours they invest. So we're publicly saying
here that we really appreciate you gang!!! All the conferences below start
with the word, "Brigada-". The number following the conference/moderator is
the current subscriber total for that conference.
| russia | Brugler | 94 |
| job-shop | larryb | 204 |
| orgs-missionmobilizers | nwilson@cproject.com | 239 |
| pubs-missionfrontiers | rickwmf@aol.com | 998 |
| medicine-for-poor | lwilson | 54 |
| orgs-cmdnet | bobhall@xc.org | 151 |
| cities | atruex | 152 |
| peoples-yemeni | natewilson@xc.org | 12 |
| projects-louisianamobilizers | nathanmartin | 15 |
| colombia-bogota | jademps | 26 |
| peoples-latam | EricDerry | 77 |
| ecuador-guayaquil | mhook@ecua.net.ec | 30 |
| projects-training | coordmts | 57 |
| techsupport | larryb@xc.org | 80 |
| albania-durres | chrisbushnell | 55 |
| cities-www | MatthewGrant@xc.org | 12 |
| peoples-uzbek | dm | 103 |
| projects-cells | EricDerry | 68 |
| peoples-caucasus | DougLarson@XC.Org | 23 |
| argentina-laplata | 71203.1044@compuserve.com | 34 |
| cities-research | steveburris | 101 |
| peoples-arab | BillKelley | 89 |
| peoples-yanadi | drporter@xc.org | 3 |
| projects-dfwmobilizers | johnanderson | 35 |
| uruguay-montevideo | larrygriffin | 41 |
By the way, thanks to RevisAnnMassey for handling the "customer service"
(including moderating) for the top level of our networking family, Brigada
itself. Instead of a few dozen or even a few hundred, she has a few
thousand of us to worry about! Thanks Revis Ann!!!
Also, to get a list of conferences (at any time you wish), just send email
to
hub@xc.org with this lone word in the text of the message:
conferences
TELEVISION, FILM AND THE UNFINISHED TASK OF EVANGELISM
A consultation
of media executives and producers from organizations interested in forming
dynamic partnerships will be held in Virginia Beach, Virginia, October 10-12
1996. The consultation, called Television, Film and the Unfinished
Task of Evangelism will have the following goals:
- To discuss ways to work together in various aspects of media efforts...
- To develop a database of Christian media ministries and personnel
currently working in the 10/40 Window
The consultation, will be convened by Eric Watt, Chairman of the AD2000 &
Beyond Media Track. Eric is also the Vice President of the International
Division of the Christian Broadcasting Network. For more detailed
information contact Tim Hulme by email
103506.2615@compuserve.com
FOLLOW-UP TO "KINAPPED MISSIONARY FREE"
We continue to get mail
regarding Raymond Rising, the missionary recently released after being held
hostage for more than two years in Colombia. The latest, from Al Adan at
Wycliffe's Singapore office, urged us to give praise to the Lord for
answered prayer in this regard! Al's right! Let's give thanks for
Raymond's release! There must have been thousands praying for this day!
TO SUBSCRIBE TO BRIGADA TODAY, send email to
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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
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!
30 of June, 1996
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