Brigada Today
10 of Oct., 1997
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News and Notes about Brigada, Your Gateway to Missions Networking!
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Compiled by Doug Lucas <DLucas@TeamExpansion.org>, Louisville, KY -- fresh back
from Envision '97 in Tulsa, OK.
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and you'll be ready for the first edition of
Brigada-Hoy just as soon as it's released! Be sure to spread the word to
your Spanish-speaking friends! The Spanish version will contain the same
resources as the English edition (so there's no need to subscribe to both
unless you just want to practice the ole' "es-pahn-yohl"
), but my
hunch is that it'll also eventually feature some Latin-American specific
stuff as well. You know how these Brigada things tend to grow.
Thanks
to the entire Brigada Hoy crew, with Alex Morales
amor@xc.org at the
helm! (Boy am I glad that wait is over!
) Don't forget to send your
"Spanish-language specific" items directly to Alex!
They found, through experience, that working together produces synergy, i.e., the output is greater than the sum of the inputs. As Bill Taylor writes in Kingdom Partnerships, "... One draft horse can pull four tons. If you harnessed two draft horses together, they can pull twenty-two tons."
To reach our world today, we need just this kind of "brigada" and just
this kind of synergy! And by the way, the same term is also good in
Spanish!
Now you can get the sky
... and everything else . . . for less! Last week's item reported a better
price on the National Geographic CD compendium ("
THOSE YELLOW
RECTANGLES FOR EVEN LESS!") and now we hear from our sleuths that you can
even beat that price! So the sky . . . and everything else that
Nat'l Geographic has pictured down through the years . . . is falling in price!
$149 is the best price we've heard... at Price/Costco. Unfortunately, we've
also heard some disappointment from at least one reader who thought the
quality would be parallel with the quality of the print version . . . and
in his opinion, it did not. This reader reported that the pictures are
"postage stamp sized" and that if you enlarged the layout, the text became
fuzzy... At the very same time, another reader wrote, saying, "It's 30
CD-ROM's total, hybrid (runs on Macs and PCs) with every photo and article
and ad they've ever published. It has an excellent search engine. Great
stuff! I could hardly pull my kids away from it, though they had homework
to do."
So -- maybe keep the
receipt handy and perhaps NG would
refund your money directly if you don't like it? Despite the questionable
report, I'm still saving up my pennies hoping to get this one by Christmas.
Even with fuzzy text, it still seems like there would be a ton of reasons
to own 108 years of National Geo.!
Couldn't make it to Pit-Stop Raleigh? Fret no more!
Now you can be there virtually.
Order the audio tapes and
pick up a at least a sense of what's going on. Order from Cary Christian
Church by mailing your check or money order to Pitstop, 1503 Walnut St.,
Cary, NC 27511. (Tel. 919-467-9159 or email
psraleigh@aol.com for more
information). Cost is $5, including shipping and handling to any USA
address (price is slightly higher for international orders -- email for
info). The entire 4-tape set is $20, or get Session 1 (Opening service with
mini profiles [project-by-project updates on PACE] and message by Dr. Ajai
Lall of India -- a case study in how Dr. Lall is reaching his area of
India), Session 2, "PACE, A path to the Future" and "Building Your Prayer
Base", or Session 3, "Activate Your Church for the Master" and "Commit to
Planting a Vibrant New Church" or Session 4. "Enlisting Networks of Love,"
Where do we go from here?" The last tape includes the illustrations on
finishing (including the "Iditarod Trail" illustration). Pit-Stop Tulsa
just occurred this past Friday . . . and the next "live" Pit-Stop on
schedule currently is set for Lincoln, IL, April 24-25. For more
information, email
hub@xc.org with only the message,
to be placed on a free list for the latest info or just read the web at http://www.brigada.org/pace.
Thanks to Lee for the tip!!!
Right now in the month of October millions
of Christians around the world are uniting in prayer for specific
unreached people groups. Organizers are expecting 30 to 50 million
believers, perhaps from every country, to participate in Praying Through
the Window III. More than 1 million prayer calendars have been distributed
in 10 languages, many of which were used as originals for printing or
copying. The prayer guide book giving detailed profiles and prayer requests
has been translated into at least 12 languages and is available in print,
on the World Wide Web, and through e-mail. Furthermore, invitations to
participate have been delivered by mail, radio, and Christian television in
many countries.
Global Glimpse is compiled each week by John Hanna, Caleb Project, Littleton, CO.
with only two words on the
first line of the message:
You'll receive a list of the names of dozens of email-activated
conferences. Those labeled, "brigada-connections-..." (as well as the
exception, brigada-travel-bids) are special. You can write them without
"joining" by just sending a message to the conference itself (for example,
Some conferences, like brigada-peoples, are more like free-flowing
information/networking sessions. Others are basically mailing lists for
emailed journals or newsletters. Each conference is different -- but the
"welcome message" usually spells out the format. In all cases, just "copy
the mail" for a while to get the hang of it -- and maybe that's safest
protocol prior to jumping in head first!
Or, contact Stephanie Garling at 502-451-5317 ext. 4725 or
write: Southeast Christian Church, Missions Committee, 2840 Hikes Lane,
Louisville, Kentucky 40218. If those two approaches don't work for you, you
can also email
TinaBruner@compuserve.com.
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Happy hunting!
HALFWAY THROUGH - ARE YOU 'PRAYING THROUGH THE WINDOW'???
WANT TO MEET A FEW DOCTORS WITH A PASSION FOR THE UNREACHED?
Now you can ... on November 7-8. That's
when Southeast Christian Church will present its second annual medical
mission conference. This year the conference will open Friday night with an
upbeat praise and worship service with a theme of "The Primacy of Prayer".
Saturday morning will present lectures from short term and career
physicians and nurses presenting the joys and the obstacles of their work
as well as a lecture on Culture Shock and Bivocational Mission Work.
Saturday afternoon will consist of break-out sessions concentrating on
specific medical and dental disease processes; and how to set up medical
mission work in your own church as well as how to become a team leader.
Nurses will receive 5 contact hours and physicians will receive 5 hours of
C.M.E. credit. There is no fee for this course. (Can you believe this?
Something related to medicine and it's free???!!!
) For more
information, download the details by sending an email to
hub@xc.org with
the only line in the message being,
get brigada medmissionsconf
WHAT WILL WE DO ABOUT THE BOSNIAS?
(Note: If I weren't already a member, I'd join
first by sending a message to
hub@xc.org that read simply,
subscribe brigada-peoples
. . . then wait for the welcome response.) If some of my
buddies there can't point me to several options, I'll be very surprised.
I'm hoping to receive 5-10 good email contacts that can help me learn more
about the situation there... maybe some web sites, some good books,
articles, and journals. Next I'll write the 5-10 people with very
specific questions... "What part of Bosnia should we try to approach?" "How
can a church/agency partnership make the best contribution?" "Where do we
learn the language(s)?" "What are the risks?" and most of all, "Who can I
contact that would help us learn more?" With this simple beginning, we'll
get started trying to learn about Bosnia. Thank God for the unselfish
resource people working the brigada-peoples conference. Thank God for
Christian unity. Now we roll up our sleeves!
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