Brigada Today
19 of Sept., 1997
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Compiled by Doug Lucas <DLucas@TeamExpansion.org>, Louisville, KY
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Get ready for some hits, Dan Scribner!!!
A group of churches and ministries in the Denver, Colorado area have decided to ride the wave
of momentum associated with Praying Through the Window III this October by
sponsoring a series of Concerts of Prayer. The last four Friday's in
October they will host a cross-denominational Concert of Prayer focusing on
the unreached peoples targeted that week in Praying Through the Window III.
Here is the real pay day...if you are out there thinking, "I'd really like
to do that but I'm not sure how to pull off a Concert of Prayer or what
exactly to pray for...", do we have a deal for you?! Kingdom Building
Ministries, one of the participating organizations, is prepared to email
you tips on leading a concert of prayer and the specific outline (including
prayer requests) the group in Denver will be using each week. Just send an
email message to KBM
Laborers@KBM.org and ask for Concert of Prayer
Tips/Prayer Outline. You can't lose. And the price is right.
Be sure
to tell 'em Brigada sent you. They'll probably throw in a few free airline
tickets to accompany one of their prayer journey teams! Okay. So I'm
kidding about the airline tickets. But the outlines are for real.
"This material is exactly what our church needed to launch an adopt-a-people program!" That's
what one participant reported after having attended Pit-Stop Raleigh this
past weekend at Peace College in Raleigh, NC. Hosted by the Cary
Christian Church, the Pit-Stop represented a landmark event in PACE Project
history, in which a local church handled 99% of the set-up and arrangements
for a program designed to help other local churches assume all the more
responsibility in finishing the task. "Exciting," responded one
participant, whose local church ended up mapping out its basic preliminary
strategy through the next 15 years!!! Thanks to Cary for a job well done!
Now . . . saddle up for Tulsa, where Pit-Stop Tulsa will prepare all the
more congregations and cooperating agencies! Register through the Envision
'97 office at
wbirney11@aol.com (800-972-1137 or fax 316-668-5220) for
the event that is scheduled for Oct. 10th, 8am - 4pm in the Doubletree
Hotel across from the Tulsa Convention Center, downtown. Cost is minimal...
$15, which includes a planning notebook and diskette. (These materials
aren't mailed out to non-attenders, but will be placed on the Internet at
http://www.brigada.org/pace in the "Tools and Resources" section as a
download.) For full details, including a schedule, see the web site
(above) or write a message to
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But it'll be well worth it. Get
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They have material (including Scriptures -- either the complete Bible or NT or sometimes just portions, depending on how much has been translated) in about 100 languages ranging from Africaans to Yoruba to others like Croatian- Laotian-Romanian, Twi, Urdu, etc. That doesn't include the hundreds of languages that they have available in the JESUS video. Says one very satisfied Brigada Today reader, "Its great to hand a catalog to someone and have them respond with 'They have MY language!'" Funny that Shirley sent this item early last week and within 48 hours, I had already passed it on to a telephone inquiry in our office wanting scriptures in a foreign language! So . . . be sure to add Multilanguage Media to your address book for that next inquiry!
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In just a few minutes, you'll receive an automatically emailed message with
tons of referrals and options. Free!
Thanks to Sam for compiling it
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THE GOSPEL FOR EVERY PEOPLE - Hindus celebrate annual Ganapati Utsaav festival; 56 million decisions for Christ through "Jesus" film; 30 million Hakka people of southern China; the Fali of Nigeria; Palaung believers send evangelistic teams; once-suspicious villagers receive "God's angel"
THE PERSECUTED CHURCH - Egyptian believer tortured for his faith seeks visa; Southeast Asia evangelist jailed; house church leaders in China praise U.S. State Department report; Yeltsin pledges compromise religion bill; Lebanese Christian freed from UAE prison
SPIRITUAL FORCES OF DARKNESS - Radical Hindu group launches anti-Christian campaign; doctors transplant tissue from aborted babies; Rotterdam church to sell discount heroin; depraved party provokes San Francisco backlash; Dalai Lama declares Dorje Shugden a demon; Benin police arrest five slavers
REJOICE! - evangelical pastor released in Guatemala; Thai village turns to Christ; Hindu guru in Pakistan turns to Christ; jailed missionary leads 36 inmates to Christ; 23,000 come to Christ in Orissa state; prominent Egyptian columnist promotes "Jesus" film;
NETWORKING - how to help Egyptian believer tortured for his faith; Praying Through the Window III; how to assist Palaung evangelistic teams; Association of International Mission Services coordinates outreach to the unreached; YWAM's School of Frontier Media; Agape Europe's Macedonian Project
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You'll be emailed a file of info -- thanks to Ken and Cheryl! They
collected, the compiled, they conquered!
With the homegoing of Mother Teresa last week much of the world attention is focused on India. She and
her disciples have so far rescued 52,000 sick and dying destitutes from the
streets. Teresa, by her service in the name of Christ, made more positive
impact on Indians than any other Christian in this century. Sister Nirmala
will succeed her as Mother. Hers is just one of 100s of indigenous Indian
mission agencies reaching out with Christ's love to both the poor and the
unreached peoples in India. Many of these missions have banded together to
form the India Missions Association which works to share information and
strategy for the evangelization of India.
Hm. Generation X.
But
hey, if you're fed up with your current Internet Service Provider (for some
reason)
then maybe you'd like to try iPass --
http://www.ipass.com.
They've put together a global internet roaming system working with
over 122 Internet Service Providers (ISP) through a local telephone call
from more than 1100 points of presence in more than 750 cities and 150
countries worldwide. Registration through iPass allows local access
through any of the participating ISPs. Now if I can just remember to put
the "P" in upper case and lower the "i" !!! (Try typing that last sentence
in WinWord '97! You've literally got to go to Tools-Autocorrect to scroll
down and find the line that turns "i" into "I" -- or else it keeps upper
casing the "i" into "I" whether you want it to or not! When will these
machines automatically know what we want instead
of what they think we
want!
) Thanks for the tip, Dave! Now suppose you wanted to shop
around even more for a great global ISP? Well you're in luck. David
scribe@goodviews.com.au has agreed to collect a list! So -- send your
favorite global ISP (ie., an Internet Service Provider) to David and he'll
compile the list and report back here in a couple of weeks. Be sure to
give him feedback on the "roaming" services' effectiveness of access from
multiple sites/countries -- (or lack thereof)!
Oops. Last week we said, "Arab World Ministry" and
it's supposed to be
Arab World Ministries! Guess they've
just kept going and going . . . and going . . . . . . .
Thanks.
According to Mark, if implemented and enforced as written it will recognize
a privileged few "traditional" religions as acceptable, while limiting less
favored "religious groups." Fifteen years of state registration on good
behavior would be required before a "religious group" could aspire to
become a "religious organization." Mark wrote, "It is unclear at this
moment how seriously the expatriate missionary community will be affected.
But in one strongly Communist provincial city a missionary was told by
local officials earlier this week that if the law passed his family would
have 24 hours to leave the country." Yikes.
Mark went on to write that
"If the new law is implemented and enforced as written it could lead to the
largest expulsion of missionaries from a single country since China after
1949." Should we start praying yet?
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