Brigada Today
27 of July, 1996
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In this issue....
NEW DATABASE UPDATE ON THE WORLD'S PEOPLES - FOR U$S 15 !!!
It's
nice to know there are people who want to give something for the cause of
world evangelism!!! Here's a guy who has done years of research and he
wants to virtually give it away to you for the cost of the disks! Why???
Because he's a believer in the CAUSE! Thanks to John Gilbert for making
the "Integrated Status of Global Evangelization Annual Report--Electronic
Version" available for $15!!! This report is an annual "snapshot" of the
status of global evangelization prepared for the Foreign Mission Board. It
is based on the levels of evangelization of the world's peoples and
utilizes the Integrated Strategic Planning Database (ISPD). The set of
seven diskettes is offered to mission agencies, denominations, and
Christian organizations to further facilitate strategic planning for the
unfinished task of global evangelization. (You'll need Windows 3.1 or Win95
to run it.) Throw in $4 and he'll even send you the associated screen saver
disks!
And get this!!! Give him $4 more and he'll send you a 10
megabyte Powerpoint file to present it!!! I'm tellin' you -- when I grow
up, I want to be like John Gilbert! Send your check for whatever to Foreign
Mission Board, SBC, P.O. Box 6767, Richmond, VA 23230, Fax 804-254-8980,
753-8054@MCIMAIL.COM.
FOLLOW UP TO "FROM THE "SOMETHING USEFUL FOR 15 CENTS" DEPARTMENT"
Several users gave us other options for on-line internet faxing. The most
commonly recommended was Faxaway at
https://ronin.kallback.com/faxaway/applic.cgi. (Thanks to John and others
for that info!) For info, send email to
faxinfo@kom.net. This company
charges by the exact time used to send your fax, so some insist that it's
cheaper to use than faxSave. Sure enough, when I tried the service, it was
a no-brainer! My first fax went through painlessly in just moments . . .
and our readers were right . . . they only would have charged 5 cents
(instead of the 15 cent minimum on faxSave). However -- keep in mind that
faxSave is the cheapest to use for the next four days!
Their "100,000
free faxes" giveaway ceases on August 1st, so if you want to fax for free
big-time, get on board quickly by reading last week's Brigada Today
again! (What?!!! You didn't save it??? Send email to
hub@xc.org with only
this line:
get brigada brigada-today.960719
Alternatively, you can try
http://town.hall.org/ which hooks you up with
TPC and all those free fax servers. Why didn't I think of mentioning that
before!
Thanks to Wayne from Auckland!!!
Others recommended
http://www.hotmail.com which allows you to send email
via the web. There's no email bounce back address, since . . . if you don't
have unlimited web access, you can't use this service anyway.
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Now the latest craze (for Win95 users with a Pentium 90 or greater) is
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MISSION 2000 TO FEATURE JP2000 LAUNCH IN GERMANY!
Those Germans! They
just keep on keepin' on! Now they're launching the Joshua Project 2000
thrust in conjunction with AD2000 & Beyond and Praying Through the Window
III! Nov. 1-3, they're hosting Mission 2000 in Bispingen in cooperation
with AIMS Germany and YWAM. Luis Bush, Bev Pegues, Kjell Sjoberg, Graeme
Hackworth und Wilrens Hornstra have all been invited to speak. For more
information, contact: Buro fur Weltmission, Jugend mit einer Mission, 29646
Bispingen, Tel.: (051 94) 13 81, Fax: (051 94) 70 33, CompuServe
100330.2724@CompuServe.COM
or
AIMS Deutschland, Postfach 45 01 29, 12171 Berlin, Tel.:
(030) 76 89 04 45, Fax: (030) 76 89 04 48 CompuServe
100711.2622@CompuServe.COM
...AND HERE'S ANOTHER MISSIONS CONFERENCE IN DALLAS
On December 1st
through December 8th, 1996, a World Missions Conference will be held in
Dallas, Texas. This conference will offer evangelical Christian mission
organizations wide exposure to a variety of potential supporters and
interested parties in the Dallas metroplex. Additionally, the conference is
an opportunity for mission organizations to share the latest in God's work
and methods throughout the world. For more info, write
russiansofe@xc.org.
"DID YOU KNOW..." (FUN FACTS TO KNOW AND TELL)
Thanks to all who
wrote regarding last week's "Did you know..." Turns out that lots of people
and monkeys eat bananas from the bottom,
but some apparently break it
in half and eat it from the middle!
(Would that be "Oreo style"?) But
the best response was from Ed who said he had learned to "fellowship with
brothers regardless of what end they started at."
Thanks to Amber,
Dave, Ed, and all the others who responded!
CURRICULUM IDEAS ANYONE?
Remember back in February, when we had a
request for Sunday School missions lessons? Well here's another one. In the
process, we'll try to get a summary this time: "Greetings. I appreciate
your work and that of others in compiling missions news on Brigada. What a
wonderful resource for up-to-date news. I am using it for a "Missions
Spotlight" insert in our church's monthly newsletter. I am missions
chairman at my church, and we are considering a mission-oriented Sunday
school class or mid-week small group. I'm trying to determine if there are
any resources for such an endeavor, such as books, study guides, etc. The
key goal of the group would be prayer, but also information distribution
and perhaps training for individuals going out on short term missions
projects. Can you suggest any resources that might be useful. Sincerely,
Lyle D. Olson, Brookings, SD." If you've got an idea, write
olsonl@ur.sdstate.edu and Lyle, please get us a summary after two weeks,
okay? Thanks!
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address in a blank, then click on a Brigada conference to subscribe! It's
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family conferences! While you're there, check out Fingertip's other
offerings! Thanks to Mike Bell and those marvelous Canadians!!!
MTI TO OFFER CONFERENCE ON MISSIONARY MEMBERCARE
Mission Training
International is sponsoring a Convention on Missionary MemberCare Oct.
28-30 at Glen Eyrie Conference Center in Colorado Springs. Dr. John Powell
of Michigan State University is the featured speaker. The Convention is
designed to be highly interactive (several case studies) and geared toward
anyone involved in providing membercare to missionaries or those
responsible for overseeing membercare in their respective agencies. For
further information, MTI can be contacted at
mintern@aol.com or by fax at
719 594-4682 or by phone at 719 594-0687 or on the Web at
http://www.mti.org/cmc.htm.
PACIFIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OFFERS PERSPECTIVES BY EXTENSION
Pacific
Christian College is now offering the Perspectives on the World Christian
Movement course at the undergraduate and graduate level on an independent
study basis over the internet. For information see
http://www.pacificcc.edu
or write
PCCICS@XC.Org. They also have field-based Masters degrees . . .
and they partner with mission agencies in the offering of these courses and
more.
INPUT SOUGHT FOR MENTORING NEW MISSIONARIES
Thanks to Brigada
encouragers! Scott Wood wrote this past week to say, "I have just started
getting Brigada Today and absolutely love it. [blush
] I am the Assistant
Director of the School Of Missions at Christ For The Nations. What a great
resource this is gonna be for us! [blusher
] My job is to get our students
to the field in a healthy, responsible way. Our approach is to get a new
missionary to the field under a seasoned ministry - on the field they feel
called to long-term. At best, we are feeling our way through this process
and if anyone has ideas, we would be appreciative. We already have some
things in place, but kind of feel like we could use the input Brigada Today
people can offer. [blushest
] God bless you for all your doing to help
fulfill the Great Commission!" So now that he's said all this nice stuff,
who's going to write the guy and say something . . . noteworthy!??
Write him at
TSWood1962@aol.com. And please thank him for the kind words!
. . .and Scott, please get us a summarized copy of what you receive,
okay? Thanks!
GLOBAL GLIMPSE
This year the Global March for Jesus began May 24th,
with 50,000 Tongans, led by the King and Queen of Tonga. During the early
hours of Saturday morning, millions more Christians marched in countries
such as Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Mongolia, the Philippines
and Cambodia. By midnight, Saturday, May 25th, up to 12 million people from
170 nations marched in a massive series of co-ordinated street marches over
a 24 hour period. This incredible feat is set to write itself into the
history books as the largest mobilization of people for a one-day event in
the history of mankind.
Source: Press Release from Global March for Jesus
headquarters,
100572.323@CompuServe.COM.
For the complete March for Jesus
update, look at the Caleb Project.
Global Glimpse is compiled each week by
John Hanna Caleb Project Littleton, CO.
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27 of July, 1996
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