Brigada Today
30 of May, 1997
As of May 22, there were 5618 participants!!!
News and Notes about Brigada, Your Gateway to Missions Networking!
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Compiled by Doug Lucas, Cincinnati, Ohio
[Pass this issue to a friend! To subscribe, see instructions at end.]
Dave'll give you a fair
price on the cost of the tapes -- and ... maybe those requesting tapes can
add in a $5 gift to Shane and Caleb Project. Dave'll collect any gifts and
send them on to Shane to help him keep doing traveling and training for
future teams! Sound okay Dave?
Those reference books on CD-ROM just
keep on coming! This past week we received news on works by Clarke, Luther,
Spurgeon, Nave, White, Bonds, Carradine, Fox, AND collections by Calvin,
Finney, Moody, Owen, John Wesley, AND biographies on Bunyan, Clarke,
Finney, Moody, Muller, Taylor & Wesley, AND final word on the entire
Expositors Bible Commentary on CD-ROM as well! As a result, we're taking
one last week to ask for any more additions (so I don't have to spend the
next couple of weeks re-posting the file!!!
). But this time we're
serious -- only one final week to respond! If you have a favorite CD-ROM
resource that you figure some missionary could use in the field and you
haven't already submitted it, just email the title, order information, and
a brief paragraph description to
DLucas@TeamExpansion.org with the subject line
reading:
(Only items with those exact words in the subject line will be included in a new source file in the Brigada file archive beginning next week!) Don't forget to include price and source! This will [seriously] be the last week for collection -- so rattle those keyboards and get your CD titles in today!
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You'll receive a complete list of file names for past Brigada Today
issues along with other files archived throughout the past couple of years.
To retrieve any past issue, you can always use the same approach:
Get brigada brigada-today.970530
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to retrieve -- for example...
Get brigada brigada-today.950825
That line would get you the issue which introduced the original People
Group Consultant database online... You get the idea. All those files will
then come to you as emails and you can archive and sort to your heart's
content. Or use hard copies to wallpaper the den!
Flies won't land on
past issues of Brigada Today. Try it!
Guaranteed or your money
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All input must be received no later than
June 9. Give any personal examples of how the Internet has helped you
prepare for, implement, or survive/thrive in tentmaking ministry. Talk
about your fears for security on the Internet, give your favorite horror
story
or even talk about what you see happening in the future. This
will be a great experiment -- and perhaps you'll even be able to read the
article in the journal in the tentmaking issue in which it will appear! So
don't delay! Send your ideas today!
You'll be able to receive or send out PRAYER REQUESTS and REPORTS related to ministries, among the Punjabi speaking peoples, learn of new MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES among Punjabis, NETWORK with others engaged in ministries to the Punjabis, and share MINISTRY RESOURCES you have developed or locate a ministry resource you need. Great job Joel!
I know it needs updated badly, but one could
at least get the idea by sending
the following line to
hub@xc.org
Thanks for asking! You could then use that text to relay or copy to anyone. Please do!
Looking for a printing and mailing
resource for your newsletters and prayer letters? Consider Mission Services
Association. They have done it for over 50 years. Do people actually
still use snail mail?
Surprisingly, the answer is yes. The Exec.
Director of MSA wrote this past week to Brigada Today, "That's right,
there is a whole generation of missions minded folks who 'download'
everything from their mailbox [the one out by the road!]."
MSA can compose, print and mail whatever you need. With the use of
their addressing and mailing software, they can get the lowest standard
mailing rates for you. You can contact them by phone (800-655-8524),
email
Mission_Services@compuserve.com or snail mail: P.O. Box 2427,
Knoxville, TN 37901. Nice people. By the way, another Brigada participant
just recommended Howard's Print Shop
http://www.netusa1.net/~hpsprint/
for great prayer cards.
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Finally, here's your chance to download a bomm for Jesus!!!
Send it to
all your friends in the name of the Lord!
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PGP is a free email encryption program that allows you to "seal the envelope" on your email, so to speak, so no one along the way can read its contents. To learn about PGP, see http://www.iuc.org/NS062396.HTM (Scroll down till you see "PGP Jump Start")
According to one reader who read John's report, "The results of this survey indicate a flaw in the popular missions community perception (not the international business community who has been encrypting their email for many years) which states that encrypted email raises one's profile in restricted access countries. On the contrary, we have no evidence to suggest that this is true in lands where encryption is not illegal." Read the report for yourself and decide.
You can always subscribe your new service once you've got it
up and running -- and we hope you will! Compuserve's alphabetical options
are killers for Brigada-* conference moderators. Please unsubscribe before
you register your new alpha address. Also, Brigada-* conference moderators
dread name changes like the one effective June 18, when the "Foreign
Mission Board" (FMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention will become the
"International Mission Board" and all those former "mci" and other
addresses will switch to "imb.org". In many cases, they'll go on to
receive Brigada emails, but the first time they try a "get" or some other
command from the hub, they're powerless, because the hub "reads" their
address as "imb" instead of the one under which they were originally
subscribed. Bottom line: "Unsubscribe, switch, subscribe again." Please.
One Brigada participant complained a
bit about my reference to reincarnation...
HOW DO
BUSINESS PEOPLE BECOME VITAL PARTICIPANTS IN MISSIONS?", where I wrote,
"When I grow up, or if I'm reincarnated as a different person, I want to be
George Miley.
" Just to clarify, I'm not Hindu nor did I originally
exist as a fly.
And when I use the
it usually means, "I wish you
could see the smile on my face."
The annual meeting of the Association
of Professors of Mission is set with the theme, "Looking to the Future, "
at Techny Towers, Techny, Illinois, from the afternoon of June 19 to the
afternoon of June 20. (The American Society of Missiology meetings will
follow - June 20-22) Topics include: Post-Modernism and implications for
Teaching Mission (Alan Padgett, APU); Short Term Missions - A Post-Modern
Phenomena (Willow Creek case study); A Broader Agenda for Mission in a
Post-Modern World (Howard Snyder, Asbury); New Technology in Teaching
Mission Studies (Scott Moreau, Wheaton). Bring your syllabi to share. For
registration information, contact Doug McConnell (630) 752-5164. E-mail:
C.D.McConnell@Wheaton.edu.
At the annual meeting of the
Association of Professors of Mission this year the Willow Creek church will
be sharing one model of church-based training. Betty Sue Brewster wrote
Brigada Today this past week, "We would like to invite other church-based
mission trainers to come and interact with us." The sessions will be at
Techny Towers, Techny, Illinois, from the afternoon of June 19 to the
afternoon of June 20. Theme: Looking to the Future. Besides the case
study, other topics include: Teaching Mission to Post-Moderns, and New
Technology in Teaching Mission Studies. For more information, contact
Betty Sue Brewster (818) 584-5276 / (818) 398-8252. E-mail:
brewster@fuller.edu.
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