Brigada Today
19 of October, 1996
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News and Notes about Brigada, Your Gateway to Missions Networking!
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In this issue....
PRAYING THROUGH THE WINDOW II - A LOOK BACKWARD
Bev Pegues, Director
of Christian Information Network, wrote this past week to announce the
upcoming availability of a recap book on "Praying Through The Window II,"
which, as you'll recall, focused on the 100 Gateway Cities of the 10/40
Window. The book,
WindoWatchman II: You Prayed, God Responded, Witness the Impact is nearing completion.
Bev wrote, "WindoWatchman II is MUST reading and belongs in the hands of
every Christian who is serious about the Great Commission. As it
chronicles the journeys of prayer warriors and sets forth priority targets
for the year ahead, this moving book will stir your heart to pray more.
Your faith will be strengthened and your heart encouraged as you join with
fellow believers around the world in pressing on toward the fulfillment of
the Great Commission in our lifetime."
Spearheading this effort were teams of "prayer journeyers" who traveled to
many of the "Gateway Cities" to pray on-site for the Gospel's ability to
penetrate these strategic centers of influence. There were a reported 403
teams who took 607 prayer journeys. The teams originated from 48 different
nations. ... As you know, most of the inhabitants on Earth live in the
10/40 Window, every major non-Christian religion -- Islam, Buddhism,
Hinduism and Sikhism -- has its headquarters in the 10/40 Window and the
10/40 Window represents Satan's greatest remaining stronghold. For this
reason, prayer is our most significant tool in cracking the code to
outreach among these most desperately least evangelized peoples.
Bev tells us that pre-orders received before December 1, 1996, will be
available at the pre-publication price of $9.99, plus shipping; orders
received after December 1, will be priced at $14.99 each, plus shipping.
Contact Christian Information Network, 11025 STATE HIGHWAY 83, COLORADO
SPRINGS, CO 80921 PHONE (719) 522-1040 FAX (719) 548-9000 E-MAIL:
73422.3471@compuserve.com. Web Page:
http://www.christian-info.com
SCAM-WATCH: BEWARE AREA CODE 809
For all of us who have friends
and/or relatives living overseas, apparently there's a new scam out there.
And we're prime candidates. We get home and find a message on the
answering machine informing us that a relative is sick and we need to call
809-xxx-xxxx to get more info. Trouble is, "809" area code is apparently
another form of "900" area codes... only off shore! . . . in the Caribbean.
Maybe someone pages us and leaves an 809 number on our pager. Either way,
when we make the call, someone on the other end barely speaks English and
after 15 minutes, we dismiss it as a hoax. Then our bill comes from the
phone company (we did actually make the call, so the phone company isn't
going to adjust the price!) and it's for well over $100!!! So.. bottom
line: toss the messages to "809" area code.... unless your daughter works
for a psychic in the Bahamas!
(Thanks to Heather V. M. Viles
hmccowen@mail.smu.edu for the tip!)
AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY TO HOLD "URBANA-LIKE" CONFERENCE IN MEXICO CITY
If you
have high schoolers in Mexico, or know someone who does, you
might want to consider sending them to "Conquest '96", an "Urbana-like"
conference in Mexico City, Dec. 26-30. For more info., contact Beth Plumb at
bplumb@msmail.apu.edu.
HAVING TROUBLE FINDING THE RIGHT FONT FOR YOUR FAVORITE LANGUAGE???
Try checking out
http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/ on the SIL web site.
"Fonts in Cyberspace" will probably be able to direct you to your answer!
LAST CHANCE TO PLAN FOR MEDICAL MISSIONS CONFERENCE IN LOUISVILLE
Southeast Christian Church medical/missions volunteers remind you to "mark
your calendar for the November 16th, one day conference at Southeast
Christian Church, Louisville, Kentucky, on medical missions. Four experts
in tropical medicine, infectious disease, pediatrics, and ob-gyn will give
practical advice from first hand experience on how to practice medicine on
the mission field. And our keynote speaker, Doug Lucas, will speak on the
role of the health professional as a missionary for God by integrating his
or her faith in Him with their professional skills in treating the whole
person. The course is free. For more information or to receive a brochure,
call Stephanie Garling at 502-451-5317 ext. 725 or write to: Southeast
Christian Church, Missions Committee, 2840 Hikes Lane, Louisville,
Kentucky, 40218. Open to anyone with interest in the health care field
and/or mission service."
RETIRED BUT NOT THROUGH!
If you're retired but not through serving
the Lord and would like to get ideas and opportunities for service, you
could contact Senior Ambassadors for Christ, a job-matching service for
seniors. According to Art McCleary, President of the agency, who wrote
Brigada this past week, "Opportunites abound in the areas of financial
services, office services, publications, medical, engineering, camping,
administration, fine arts, foodservice, library services, computer
specialties, teaching, transportation, stewardship, telecommunications,
parenting, hospitality, child-care, as well as, construction/maintenance."
For more information, write
srs4christ@aol.com, or contact the USA office
on the campus of the U S Center for World Mission -- call - 800-638-2854 or
818-398-7373; write - Senior Ambassadors for Christ, 1605 Elizabeth St,
Pasadena, CA 91104.
AFGHANISTAN!
Here's your chance to learn more about this complex
country. You can get a 7 minute professionally edited and narrated video
highlighting church planting work among the Dari speaking people of
Afghanistan. The video includes footage from Kabul and Mazar-i-Sherif. It
demonstrates the difficulty of travel, the danger of war, and the wild
sport of buzkashi (goat pulling), among other things. For security reasons
the producers will only ship it to a verified church address. The cost is
$8 plus postage and handling ($3 to points in the USA, for a $11 total).
Contact John Marion,
76623.3676@compuserve.com.
CSERVERS CAN DO MIME
Are you a CServe user frustrated by your
service's lack of built-in MIME support? (We're talkin' compression/coding
and not clowns/actors here.
) Do you wish for UUEncoded e-mail
attachments at the drop of an internet hat? Well your wishing days might
be over. Check out CServe's Internet Resources Forum on CompuServe
(GO:INETRE), and look in the library under the search word "MIME". There
you can find MIME2CIS.ZIP, which places MIME2CIS.EXE in the inbasket
subdirectory of the CServe filing cabinet. According to tipster
DavidHousholder@xc.org, "When the user runs that file it looks through
the inbasket, finds files that came from outside CompuServe and strips off
the Internet routing headers then finds any files that have MIME or
UUEncode content and decodes them, leaving the decoded file either in the
inbasket subdirectory or in the download subdirectory, depending on the
setup. The program is a $10 shareware program." David also recommend
Wincode... a long-time standby for Cservers. David added, "Wincode is ...
freeware and now includes MIME encoding/decoding as well as UUEncoding. It
is fast, slick, and nicely done. It works easily with an attached file
located in the download directory. To use it on an e-mail message in the
inbasket it is best to save the message as a text file then run Wincode on
that." So folks... there you have it! Mime users are no longer silent!
RAMADAN IS COMING FAST
(Get it?) Coinciding with the annual Islamic
fasting month of Ramadan, the 30 Days Muslim Prayer Focus is an
international movement calling Christians everywhere to learn about Islam,
and to pray for Muslims, so that they may come to know God's grace revealed
in Jesus Christ. This fifth annual 10/40 Window project (endorsed by a
number of international Christian ministries, including the Praying Through
the Window movement) will take place during the next Ramadan (annual Muslim
month of fasting), Jan 10 to Feb 8, 1997. For more information on published
materials, see the related web page at
http://www.ywam.org/prayer/30days.html. (By the way, . . . did you know
that on many current browser releases, it's no longer necessary to type in
the "http://"??? The browser assumes it even when it's not there! Save
those keystrokes for something more important!
)
ALL 1739 JP2000 PEOPLE GROUPS TO BE REPRESENTED AT ENVISION '96
If
you've been thinking about hosting an exhibit at Envision '96, the missions
conference and celebration in Lexington, KY, Nov. 1-3, you'd better call
soon. Only 15 or so exhibits remain (out of 350) and 20 or so mission
agencies are considering these last few spots. (Call 1-800-972-1137 in the
USA or email
wbirney11@aol.com for more information.) Over 45,000
registrations have been rec'd as a tremendous show of support for the
conference, which is set to feature A 1000-voice choir, 28-piece orchestra,
state-of-the-art technical support, and a 34-mile Olympic-style torch run
from Cane Ridge to downtown Lexington's Rupp Arena and Heritage Hall
Convention Center, along with premier showings of new missions videos, an
arena balloon drop to beat the bands, and a chance to glorify Christ and
lift His name toward the nations. An electronic messaging center will
provide each and every delegate (who wants one) with an electronic
convention mailbox to promote information sharing and networking. [A
paper-based message center will help those who consider computers the "mark
of the beast".
Workshops, special plenary sessions, and an Adoption
Center add to the full slate of activities... with all 1739 Joshua Project
2000 People Groups represented in arena seating (since there aren't that
many Christians from these groups, convention planners are using
professionally-produced signs -- "place-holders" -- to save their seats for
the future!). At the Adoption/Decision Center, delegates can register their
intentions to pray for a group, take part in a research expedition or
prayer journey to the 10/40 Window, and/or become a people-specific
advocate. Watch the web site unfold throughout the weekend... in "real
time" as media volunteers post transcrypts and news stories on
http://www.xc.org/brigada/e96/.
YOUR CHANCE TO VOTE... "SHOULD BRIGADA TODAY CONTINUE?"
Now on a
more personal note... [from Doug, the editor] -- Nearly two years ago,
Envision '96 was the vehicle that served as the catalyst to bring about the
launching of this whole "Brigada" thing... (When asked to serve as
President of Envision '96, I began searching for resources and networking
possibilities. Brigada was born out of that search.) Obviously, the dozens
of individual conferences under the Brigada heading have a life of their
own. They continue because their moderator/owners give countless volunteer
hours to make them possible. But what about Brigada Today, the 'top
level'? Is there life after Envision '96 for Brigada Today??? We'll let
you decide. If you'd like to see Brigada Today continue after Nov. 3,
please send the following message to
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The results will be reported on in next week's Brigada Today, so please
send your "vote" by Thursday noon, Eastern Time. Thanks!
(By the way, . . . in case you were wondering, I am not a member of any of
the 3 conferences and will not join. You have my word that I'll not look
at any of the subscriber lists. As far as I'm concerned, the membership of
the lists will be a total secret. I'll only be given a subscriber count in
the weekly summary "activity report" next Thursday.)
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BRIGADA TODAY IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FOLLOWING TEAM OF REGULAR VOLUNTEERS:
Global Glimpses: John Hanna, Caleb Project,
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ADVANCE: Mark A. Kelley, Kainos Press,
70420.1057@compuserve.com- Web Wizard: Bob Mayhew, Brigada Volunteer,
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- But thanks for working together! That's the dream of Brigada!
19 of October, 1996
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