Brigada Today
18 of July, 1997
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Compiled by Doug Lucas, Louisville, KY
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In fact, more than 10 cell groups or churches are
praying -- for each of the groups on the Joshua Project List of Unreached
Peoples! What started as a dream has now become reality! Dick Gaffney
RGaff13817@aol.com The Manna Church of Fayetteville, NC, has now
documented 10 churches for each of the 1790 people groups on the list and
now they're going around again in an effort to record 20 different
churches or groups praying for each of the peoples! They're already up to
19,300!!! Way to go, Manna! I'm finally going to meet these people at
Pit-Stop Raleigh (a conference on how to adopt and reach a frontier people
group), Sept. 19-20, Raleigh, NC) and I'm looking forward to it! (For more
information about Pit-Stop Raleigh, write
psraleigh@aol.co. If you were
looking for a good excuse to go, now you've got one! Dick Gaffney from
Manna Church is going to be there with a live session, along with Eric
Derry of Beavercreek Christian Church, and others!!)
Sorry for the four-week experiment. We've
learned that we don't live in a Courier New world any longer! It's
history.
Thanks to those who spoke out on the survey, asking for its
release into posterity.
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Thanks Jon!
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While you're at it, you can also get the
June issue, which was only made
available to us this past week, by sending
get brigada advance.9706
Here's the July summary!
Summary of "ADVANCE!" for July 1997
THE GOSPEL FOR EVERY PEOPLE--Intercede for believers in Hong Kong; first seeker from an unreached people group in Indonesia; Buddhists in Sri Lanka coming to Christ; Algeria's Tuaregs; China's Hui; new leaders for China's registered churches.
THE PERSECUTED CHURCH--14-year-old Pakistani Christian girl abducted, forced to convert; leaders of Bogota, Colombia, church attacked; Ethiopian believers seriously by mob; members of Mexico church told to revert or leave town; Russian law restricts believers' rights
SPIRITUAL FORCES OF DARKNESS--Christian Dayaks in Borneo revert to head-hunting ways; homeless man burned alive in Brazil; children to be dedicated to pagan Parsee gods; Nepalis oppressed by Hinduism.
REJOICE!--cable TV station in Guatemala airs "Jesus" film; breakthrough among Muslim Susu of Sierra Leone; gospel advance in northwest India; church in China's Sichuan province repairs potholed road.
NETWORKING--To register protest over new Russian law; pamphlets profile more than 700 of the world's 1,739 unreached people groups; International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church.
FRONT LINES--By minding our own business and neglecting the Kingdom, we betray our brothers and sisters who suffer each day for their commitment to Christ -- as well as those enslaved by the Oppressor.
And as
Jonathan put it, the web page says it will be "operational after Apr. 21st
-- and it's still not operational. Not a good sign." Still, if you'd like
to take the risk, send email to
info@freeaccess.net. Caveat emptor...
[Just what exactly does that mean, anyway? Mrs. Judd (my 9th grade Latin
teacher), where are you when I need you!
]
Give Grace your best shot. Grace is compiling an
ongoing list of resources and networks of Christian music and the arts
throughout the nations so that the nations can worship Jesus with their own
expressions of worship to His glory. If you've got a favorite resource or
CD or whatever, email
Gewiebe@aol.com or
Grace.Wiebe@CCMAIl.LFA.COM or
both, for that matter
In a couple of weeks, Grace, don't forget to
send us the compilation so we can make it available to all. Thanks!
The first week of July
brought the world one step closer to global evangelization. The 1997 Global
Consultation on World Evangelization (GCOWE) brought together 4200
Delegates from 135 countries to Pretoria, South Africa. 80% of the
delegates were from countries that WERE missionary receiving countries --
the missionary leadership base is now firmly established in Africa, Asia
and Latin America! When the results were tallied, 390 ethnic groups
previously with no church or church planters now had missionary agency
leaders who had adopted them. It was reported on the last night that now
90% of the 1,739 Joshua Project unreached peoples now have either a church
planting movement or a commitment to mobilize a team of church planters.
Now that GCOWE '97 is written into the history books, you
might want to take a look at what some of those majority world churches are
saying. Check out
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/5796 for one
example, fresh from Gereja Persekutuan Maranatha Indonesia, Yogyakarta. And
thanks to Arie "Denmas Marto" Saptaji
ypkd-ind@yogya.wasantara.net.id for the tip about your church's website!
] wiping out
cabinets beside one of Kentucky's foremost heart surgeons -- and the
cardiologist happened to be on call. Several times I would see them
there on their knees scrubbing cabinets, cell phone in one hand, sponge
soaked in Formula 409 in the other, taking calls from forwarding services
and emergency rooms. "No, I don't think I'd administer that together...
better use 10 cc Lydocaine drip with...." (You get the picture -- in spite
of my improvisational prescriptions.
) This is the stuff humility is
made of. There we were on a hot and sweaty Saturday morning, when many
doctors would want to be out on water skis, watching ESPN, or shopping for
some new car... anywhere but a musty kitchen cabinet of a 100-year-old
church building. But hey -- the building has tons of character, and so do
these volunteers. So -- missions department and volunteers at Southeast
Christian Church, we salute you... but on a larger scale, we salute the
doctors, missionaries, and volunteers worldwide who are "wiping down
cabinets" (and performing tons of other servant-like tasks) worldwide
today. You might not all be talking on cell phones while you scrub on
sinks, but for whatever it is God has called you to do with Christlike
servanthood, you've all got my thanks and the appreciation of zillions of
folks from Louisville to Liberia, all saying, 'thanks!' for your attitude
of service, humility, and Christlike life!!! And by the way, the
cardiologist and his wife are due back tonight with the wife of the
anesthesiologist -- and dozens of others. The work marches forward around
the world, thanks to humble hearts.
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