Brigada Today
4 of July, 1997
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Compiled by Doug Lucas, this week writing from Kenai, Alaska
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And after all, inquiring minds want to know!
Dr. I. Dale Carroll is doing a study on
any USA residents who have had part or all of a pregnancy overseas since
1990 (including miscarriages). I know, I know. You're saying, "What in
the world does this have to do with missions?" Well -- the good doctor has
assured us that she'd send us an electronic form of the abstract -- the
summary of the survey results -- which we can then make available to all
missionary moms. If you've ever been involved in anything medical while
serving overseas, I have a hunch you'll understand that this is significant
stuff. You can't (nor should you)
separate the family out of
missionary life and work -- they go together. So -- if you're game to be
surveyed and if you qualify, contact Dr. Dale Carroll at
TravDoc@compuserve.com, The Pregnant Traveler, 983 Miners Road, St.
Joseph, MI 49085, phone 616-428-4996 (fax--616-428-0977). In case you were
wondering, Dr. Carroll is a member of the Southwestern Medical Clinic in
Berrien Center, MI, a 40-person multispecialty group with a heavy missions
emphasis. She is a board-certified OB/GYN with considerable overseas
experience and is also now certified in Travel Medicine, we're also making
plans for a Travel Medicine clinic.
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That's a 5-Day training course to help you teach Disciple's Prayer Life and/or greatly enrich your
prayer life during this week of August 11-15, 1997 at Providence Baptist
Church in Raleigh, NC. Sponsored by the Southeast Regional Office-USCWM
(see the ad in the June issue of Mission Frontiers), it's $75 (includes
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Praise God for the report from the United Bible
Society regarding the largest Christian literature shipment yet to "The
Last Frontier." On January 22nd, sixty tons of books were convoyed from
Jordan to Iraq. The shipment consisted of 31,800 Good News Arabic Bibles,
10,000 Children's Bibles, thousands of Scripture calendars and other
Christian biblical handbooks. Pray for the Christians in Iraq who received
and continue distributing these gifts. Wow!
Thanks to Mark Snowden
Mark.Snowden(at)IMB(dot)org, Media Consultant for the IMB, for the item!
(Change (at) to @ and (dot) to .)
Dave Dunlap stumbled upon some unreached people videos while attending a conference last weekend in
Louisville. There's a total of 8, 1 each on the Arab American people,
Sudanese people, Minangkabau people, Rock people, Madurese people, Albanian
people, Romany (gypsy) people, and the Pattani Malay people. At the
conference, they sold for $4.95 each, or all 8 for $29.95! They're very
excellent quality produced by Randy Durham, CBN, in N.C., and priced to get
them into the hands of us folks who will champion establishing churches
among them! CBF offices in Atlanta can be reached at (888) 801-4223.
Dave's at
104165.2242@compuserve.com and produces videos on his own as well.
Therefore, there's this new momentum coming from the "Finshers Project" that's trying to change all that. The Finishers Project is hosting a consultation November 7&8, 1997 on the campus of Fuller Seminary to consider what training is AVAILABLE and APPROPRIATE for second-career candidates to serve in mission by assignment type. The session will be conducted with Drs. Phil Elkins (Mission Training and Resource Center); Eddie Elliston (Fuller); Doug Kinne (Crossroads, YWAM); and Stacy Rinehart (CoMission Training Coordinator, Navigators). The NEXT STEP movement spearheaded by Woody Phillips of United World Mission will also be represented. That cooperative effort is designed to provide a standard of training and accreditation so that agencies will consider people trained if they complete in any participating training program. This is designed to set a consensus standard and eliminate training duplication so resources can be more effectively used on the front lines. There is no fee to attend the Fuller consultation. If you would like to participate and present what training approaches your organization finds useful, what works, what was tried and does not work, the successes and outcomes, contact Mr. Nelson Malwitz, Finishers Project Chairman, Walnut Hill Community Church, 156 Walnut Hill Road, Bethel, CT 06801; Fax: (203)-796-7377; e-mail: nelsonm@compuserve.com.
GCOWE in South Africa is in full swing.
Those subscribed to the press release conference are getting some very
exciting and thorough reports from Pretoria, South Africa. The opening
session was held at Hatfield church with a capacity crowd of 5,000 people.
Pete Holzmann, of AD2000's Interactive Task Force, wrote, "For the nearly
4,000 delegates the opening worship songs were a culmination of a year of
planning and a taste of what heaven will be like when people worship at
the throne from every nation."
From a look at the GCOWE 97 registration database some interesting facts and trends emerge (these also from Pete): 80% of the delegates are citizens of countries that formerly were viewed as missionary receiving countries. This consultation shows that the missionary leadership base is now firmly established in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Fact: GCOWE participants are 76.5% men and 23.5% women Observation: Women have a strong presence in missionary leadership.
Fact: Total GCOWE registration fees came 64% from Africa, Asia and Latin America. 36% came from Western Europe, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Observation: GCOWE 97 is being financed primarily through citizens of Africa, Asia and Latin America. ...
Fact: 11% of the delegates attended GCOWE 95 in Korea 5% of the delegates attended Lausanne 89. 3.7% of the delegates attended Amsterdam 86. Observation: New people are being exposed to this Global Consultation rather than just the same people attending consultation after consultation.
Fact: 30% of the delegates have an e-mail address. Observation: Missionary leaders are keeping up with new technology to network with one another.
| Fact: | 5% | of the delegates are age 60 or older |
| 18% | of the delegates are age 50 to 59 | |
| 36% | of the delegates are age 40 to 49 | |
| 30% | of the delegates are age 30 to 39 | |
| 10% | of the delegates are under age 30 |
Observation: There is a pretty even age spread among GCOWE delegates. This shows that missions is benefiting from the wisdom of the older people. This also gives some indication that there will be enough replacements when the oldest generation retires.
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