Brigada Today
26 of Sept., 1997
Now with 6108 participants
News and Notes about Brigada, Your Gateway to Missions Networking!
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Compiled by Doug Lucas, Louisville, KY
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[Thanks to our faithful Customer Relations Manager, Revis Ann Massey,
currently in Dallas for a visit with her home church, Highland Meadows, for
tirelessly tooling away at trying times as moderator and administrator for
this Brigada conference!!! How many of us could handle troubleshooting
6108 friends each week! 
Thanks Rev'!]
Unheard of. They explained, "These tapes are all
available free or on a donation basis. Don't hesitate to order due to
financial restraints. If there is a way you can visit us and pick up any
especially large orders, that will save money as postage costs are one of
our obstacles, especially outside Europe and North America. Please don't
order large amounts if there is a high chance that they will be stolen in
the mail. Perhaps ordering a small number at a time would be best." What's
available?
with only these words in the text of
the message:
You'll receive an expanded list, complete with annotation, and a letter from George Verwer.
Calendars are $9.95 each, 6 (or more) for $7.50 each, 50 (or more) $6.00
each, plus shipping & handling. Prepayment by check, or credit card (VISA
& Master Card only). E-mail orders go to
orders@cproject.com, telephone
orders go to 303-730-4170, xtn 343, and snail mail orders go to Caleb
Project, #10 West Dry Creek Circle, Littleton, CO 80120. Can't wait to get
mine (already coming). I mean . . . these would look great on the wall in
the kids' bedroom, the kitchen, church office, the doctor's office, the
plumber's office, etc.
Great gifts. I mean -- which calendar would
you rather have your teenager buy? This one, or that one from the sports
magazine with all the bathing suits?
Of course, all shipping and customs fees would naturally be
the responsibility of the purchaser. CoMission has used this model all
across the former Soviet Union for the past five years with great success.
Interested? Contact Bob Ehle, CoMission Director of Arrangements, at
rehle@cis.com. I wrote Bob back and asked him to give us some idea on the
price. He responded, "The price is somewhat negotiable; the video playback
units were $200 new; the base asking price in lots of ten is $125 each. The
custom cases were $98 new; the base asking price in lots of ten is $55."
He also added, "Thanks, Doug. We not only want to stop paying warehouse
fees; we're anxious that the units be put to good use in the spread of the
gospel!" Sounds fair enough to me!
In this case, Gerry Dueck at
the US Center in Pasadena is the one to thank. He has painstakingly
assembled a jam-packed a whoppin' 118 K file (probably 70 pages??!), split
it into 7 volumes, and made it available to Brigada participants at no
charge. Why? Because he loves kids and wants these resources to be used to
share with them the world and its needs! So -- grab the phone and call
your nearest Christian Education director. He or she needs this
bibliography. It's very very detailed and complete with email addresses
and toll-free numbers and fax numbers galore. To get it, copy these lines
and paste them into an email message to
hub@xc.org
. The 118K of
resources will be emailed to you in a 7-volume set that you can reassemble
on your own computer. Thanks Gerry.
get brigada kids1
get brigada kids2
get brigada kids3
get brigada kids4
get brigada kids5
get brigada kids6
get brigada kids7
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) in your life. Or for
the church or mission library! Check out the details at the NG web site. If
you don't have access to the web, ask a friend to check it out for you.
Some time ago, Quamar mother's near death triggered a
spiritual search that changed his life forever. At a Bible teacher's
suggestion Quamar risked praying for her healing in the name of Jesus
Christ. Visible changes immediately occurred in his mother and she
recovered. As he began reading the Bible and Christian books, his family
began to persecute him. After a time he left his home and village to seek
Christian fellowship, but today he seeks more than ever to express the
power of Jesus Christ to his family.
... at least not anymore, I hope. Last week's item, "
PIT-STOP RALEIGH
RALLIES... PIT-STOP TULSA TALLIES" featured a classic Brigada-type typo...
where the word "put" was inadvertently put to get the word "get."
Both
are commands on the MAFxc hub, but typically only moderators fool with
"put" and conference members can then "get" or retrieve whichever file was
putted.
So -- if you were looking for
the file on Pit-Stop Tulsa and
"put" wouldn't "get," please forgive me! "I was probably sleep-boarding
again." The proper syntax is:
and you're
in business! The hub will automatically email you back a reply filled with
info on Pit-Stop Tulsa! No charge, no muss, no fuss. But -- make sure you
get
instead of put!
[Also, if you tried to get "english-help" (last week's item, "
WANT TO
FIND OUT THE EFFECT OF USING ENGLISH IN CHURCH PLANTING?"), try again;
it's there now.]
Have you checked out
http://www.answering-islam.org/ ?
Apparently it's operated by a guy from India who has had tremendous success
corresponding with Muslims from throughout the world. In the privacy of
their own homes they can link up with Jesus via their computer! His
website has apparently had an average of 10,000 hits per WEEK. (Thanks for
the tip, Gene!)
. Thanks Rod!
with only this line in the text of the message:
And the best part is . . . it's absolutely free. Thanks Ken!
with only this line in the text
of the message:
Kerstin, let's make this an annual edition, eh? We'll count on it next September too, okay? Thanks!
Okay - so I'll admit we took some
heat for featuring the item honoring Mother Teresa (last week's item "
GLOBAL GLIMPSE FROM CURRENT EVENTS", which told of some of her amazing and
humble accomplishments. But do try to keep in mind that we didn't say we
agreed with every piece of doctrine she held. At the same time, that
doesn't keep us from admiring the life she lived. Besides, out of over
6000 Brigada participants . . . . . . . . . only one person complained.
] and the other
in plain text, like it is now).
My take on all this is that it would be cool, . . . and it might even save readers some time. But from what I've learned from our kind-hearted tutors this past week, it's probably something we need to revisit in a year or so, if and when email standards have risen. According to those among us who are "in the know," there are too many folks still accessing email from DOS machines or from proprietary email clients. Bottom line: There's no way we could make the titles "clickable" for one and all. And to include all the extra formatting commands (which would become garbage for those without the special capability) seems to be a waste of time for those in the DOS/proprietary category. So we end up shooting ourselves in the foot!
One reader suggested doing an "Edit-Find" (ctrl-F in some email readers) for the numbered item you'd like to see... like search for the text string "3)" or "20)" -- and include the parenthesis to decrease the likelihood that you'll find more than one occurrence. Another reader said that if we wanted to click on the title, just read the web version that Bob Mayhew prepares faithfully every week at http://www.brigada.org. The titles have been hot there since he began the web version, back in our first few months of 1995. He usually has it up and running on the web just shortly after it's emailed. Either way, thanks for the lesson on links!
For some reason, making good decisions about
one or more of these passions is not all that easy at times. My buddy John
(who is headed to Asia) just sent me a note from David Burns that included
this story by Ken Canfield, in his book, 7 Secrets Of Effective Fathers.
It's a great story -- and I hope it causes us to reexamine the priority
that we're all placing on that "right relationship" passion -- especially
as it relates to family.
"It reminds me of a story from another Olympics held in France --the 1924
summer games in Paris. Bill Havens was selected to represent the United
States that year in an event called Canadian singles. It was a canoeing
event, a demonstration sport, in which the competitors sit in a high
kneeling position and use a single paddle. Havens was good; in fact,
everyone expected him to bring home the gold.
However, a few months before the Olympics, Havens learned that his wife was due to give birth sometime during the Games. He had a decision to make: the opportunity of a lifetime or . . .the opportunity of a lifetime. He made his decision. He stayed home. The team left for Paris without him. On August 1, 1924, his son Frank was born-- four days after the Games.
Fast forward through all those summers when Bill Havens probably heard the results from every Olympic canoeing event and wondered if he'd made the right decision. But stop in 1952, the year the Summer Olympics were in Helsinki. Havens received a telegram from Helsinki that he surely wouldn't have traded for any amount of gold. The telegram read: "Dear Dad. . .Thanks for waiting around for me to get born in 1924. I'm coming home with the gold medal you should have won." It was signed, "Your loving son, Frank." Frank Havens had just won the gold medal in the ten-thousand-meter Canadian singles canoeing event."
Giving proper priority to our passion for right relationships (especially
with family) will never be easy... but perhaps that means we ought to work
all the harder to do just that! God bless your week!
(Thanks again to John and David for the great referral!)
Woe be unto us if we get so busy mobilizing others that
we forget to mobilize us!
So -- for our office, it'll be a simple
plan. We're going to meet each day at 12:45pm for 15 minutes to pray for
the people groups of the day, following the outline in the brochure. How
'bout your organization or church? If you haven't put together a plan
yet, better hurry -- you've only got until Wednesday!!! For more
information on Praying Through the Window III, AD2000 has put a little
known file on their web site --
a WinWord summary (digest version) of the
Praying through the Windows III Unreached Peoples book. Find it at
http://www.ad2000.org by clicking on PTWIII tools. Perfect if you failed
to order the book!
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