Brigada Today
14 of September, 1996
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Yikes gang. There's egg all over my face and it doesn't come from
the morning's omelet! Thanks for your grace and forgiveness for the clutter
of a second "bounced" Brigada Today (a "two-for-one sale???"), which, as
most figured out, resulted from a Brigada participant's email address
"malfunctioning" and sending back a "bounced" message to the Brigada
server. The surprising thing is... we receive literally dozens of these
bounces in a typical week and all of them are dutifully routed
automatically by the server to our faithful Customer Service Manager, Revis
Ann Massey
RevisAnnMassey@xc.org. However for the last two weeks, a
single user's email handler had somehow "outsmarted" the special
intercepting software and had incredibly bypassed the required "approval"
password routine, thus sending out hundreds.... thousands of pieces of
mail by mistake! We've sleuthed out the culprit and unsubscribed him... a
unique situation where his email handler would dial him up and send his
email to him overseas! MAFxc personnel are still perplexed as to how his
message beat their "gateway" and outsmarted the password-protection that's
supposed to prevent such errors. Either way, we apologize ... and thanks
for your forgiveness! Hopefully, you won't see a duplicate today!
What's the advantage over TV? I'm not sure. I guess the preacher can always conduct live online surveys, to which you as a participant can answer back instantly? Or maybe at invitation time, you can type in the sins of which you're repenting??? I jest. I think there's a future for this technology, but I'm not sure online church services would draw me. I mean, if I can flip on the TV and see the Crystal Cathedral just fine, why would I want to draw my family around the laptop screen?
But as Chris Templar pointed out this past week, there just might be a
future for this technology in missions education . . . or education for
Missionary Kids! Chris wrote, "At 28.8 its still a little jerky, but on
my portable I could watch for 8 hours with only two breaks, and apart from
information overload by the end, got a lot of free tuition from experts for
nothing!!" Imagine tuning in over the web to your child's instructor for
Spanish class... and you live in Japan! ... or tune in to your favorite
class at Fuller, though you're posted in Ukraine! And when you want, just
send in a question to the special address at the bottom of the screen...
Low and behold, in a few seconds, the prof' says, "Now here's an
interesting question from Kiev...." Shazam! Your question's answered!
Now that would be mission education at a distance, wouldn't it! Will it
happen, most assuredly. Anytime soon? Not sure. First, the world needs
the web! Second, someone has to figure out how to pay for all this stuff!
In the meantime, enjoy it as a toy... kind of the way the first airplane
pilots did with the Wright brothers' new toy... or the way those first few
phonograph cylinders sounded on Edison's player. In 10 years though,
it'll be common place!!! And if you've already got video web-cast plans in
your seminary's crystal ball's future, drop Chris Templar a note at
ctemplar@jbc.edu. Chris, let us know if you hear back, okay? Thanks for
the interesting query!
Here's the summary for this month's Advance: ADVANCE: Praying for unreached peoples and persecuted believers Summary: September 1996
THE GOSPEL FOR EVERY PEOPLE -- 300 churches organized in Hong Kong; God turns adversity into salvation in Benin; 600 decisions for Christ in Thai prisons; new radio station can reach 1 million Islamic Kurds; 40 million speak Kannada language; 120,000 Adegei in Caucasus Mountains.
THE PERSECUTED CHURCH -- 13 believers held in Vietnam; Muslim militants murdered two Coptic Christians; Amnesty International report criticizes China; believers in Cuba forced to dismantle their own facility; Robert Hussein flees Kuwait.
SPIRITUAL FORCES OF DARKNESS -- Slavery in Mauritania; starvation in northern Liberia; evangelical abortion rates; "Chaos Days" in Germany; compulsive gambling in USA; "Daddy's Wedding."
REJOICE! -- Church growth in Basra, Iraq; healing in Ghana; 1,000 came to Christ in Cambodia; believer freed; desert village assists American congregation.
NETWORKING -- Missions Bible studies; e-mail discussion on street children; free subscription to Voice of the Martyrs Newsletter; insight for Christians interested in witnessing to Muslims; Urbana '96 missions convention; National Short-Term Missions Conference; low-cost computer-radio transmitter; Global School of Evangelism via the Internet; CD-ROM language program available at discount; Christian Reporter Web site.
FRONT LINES -- Jesus' message.
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send the full text out to Brigada participants? Sure... but not all would
want to receive the entire journal, we reason. This gives you the
choice... and you only have to type in 3 words to receive it. Your call.
Thanks to Mark Kelly
70420.1057@CompuServe.COM for a great job month
after month!
, Kerstin Hack, writes, "It is the first major Missions
conference in the city of Nuremberg. To us in Germany this is historic.
Whereas Berlin used to be the strategic headquarters of the Nazi powers,
Nuremberg always was the spiritual headquarters in which all the worship of
Hitler took place and from which the horrible Nazi propaganda went out to
the whole of Germany and the rest of the World. We hope and pray that the
Lord will use this conference to break the curses of the past and turn this
city (and our nation) into a spiritual headquarters for Missions reaching
the ends of the earth with salvation. Hail to Jesus and Jesus alone...."
Dates are October 2 - 5, 1996 -- "Reach out '96" Missions conference in
Nuremberg, Germany. Kerstin, if I could be there, I would! Thanks! Kerstin
is at
100711.2622@CompuServe.COM. And my voice is much better Kerstin.
Thanks for asking!
The programme was first developed by Dr George Patterson in Central America where he established about 100 churches over 20 years. Other users of the materials have had even greater success in church planting. The original materials were edited by a team of experienced SEAN TEE writers including George Patterson himself. The present revised version is produced by the Missionary Training Service, an organization dedicated to the training of workers for the unevangelised world.
The Church Planting Guide, which is part of the set, has been used to begin several thousand churches around the world. This is also sold separately at US$9.50 including airmail postage worldwide.
The full set of 62 booklets, including airmail postage, costs US$130. This includes the Pastoral Trainer's Manual which explains the whole programme, the Student Activity Guide which is the activity-based curriculum, and all the booklets divided into two levels. ... We hope that the materials will soon be available with Black African drawings, and in French too. We have contacts with people preparing the materials in Hindi, Turkish, Thai and other languages. Licenses to translate and/or produce the materials usually start at US$150." Ian has more information on pricing. If you intend to buy, make sure you write him first at coordmts@xc.org for instructions on payment. Thanks Ian! I continue to be fascinated by the results of this unique training curriculum!
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But zillions of Brigada conferences operate on
literally a daily basis to
do most of the actual work of Brigada -- that of linking up people with a
common affinity or love for some least reached people. Many of these
conferences are unmoderated, meaning that any message to the conference
is passed out to all those who have joined. It's worth our while, every so
often, to remind Brigada participants to be careful with their use of the
"reply" button when reading these conferences. User Jim Nickel wrote this
week, "I've noticed a number of what appear to be personal messages or
replies appearing on certain conferences. Let's remember that messages
posted to a conference or sent as replies to messages posted to a
conference go to everyone. If the message is not something that everyone
on the conference needs, may I suggest that it be sent to the personal
address of the addressee, which can always be found in the header of the
message under "originally from." Some of us have quite a bit of e-mail to
wade through, and it becomes quite a time- and $$-waster to have to
download & read mail not meant for us." Well-said, Jim. Many agree.
So... use the conference... wisely!
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