Brigada Today
23 of January, 1998
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Compiled by Doug Lucas <DLucas@teamexpansion.org>, Louisville, KY
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(Like I say, it's produced for a
North-American audience.) Write Caleb Project at While you're at it, check out the
video on the Maratha people, originally produced by Kingdom Building
Ministries, also $12, 12 minutes long. The two would make a great "one-two
punch" -- the big picture and a specific example. In this case, AD2000 and
Caleb Project have targeted a North American audience, but others from
around the world will find it interesting, as well. This one's a keeper,
gang. You'll be able to use it at your missions fair, in your planning
meetings, and in your mobilization workshops. Lots of short interviews...
lots of practical info... and lots of motivational examples. This one could
be titled, "So you're thinking about adopting an unreached people, eh?"
in the subject line. Details will follow.
More than 350 Christian volunteers and full-time ministers are ready for work at the 1998 Winter
Olympics in Nagano, Japan. The teams will work in coffee houses set up for
evangelism, in hotel information booths, as garbage collectors, as
chaplains, and in singing and drama performances in the marketplace.
Christians are to be the only religious group represented by chaplains in
Nagano, a city with one of the largest Buddhist temples in the world. Those
involved include missionaries from the Southern Baptists, Campus Crusade
for Christ, Athletes in Action, International Bible Society, InterVarsity,
Youth With a Mission and the American Bible Society. 1,500 'Jesus' videos
in multiple languages are ready for athletes and officials in their own
languages. 
The Southern African Missiological Society (SAMS) has a Web
page which gives information about its activities at: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/8409/ They give information about the Society, and about its journal Missionalia, and its work in making abstracts of mission-related articles
from journals published around the world. There is also information about
the SAMS annual congress, links to other sites dealing with mission,
missiology and mission studies around the world, and a contact point for
researchers on African Independent Churches. So give her everything ya got! She'll compile it and
we'll post it here later for all to download. She's especially interested in
resources designed for those who desire to reach out to the nations of the
world at their doorstep. "There are some agencies I know of but they require
leaving your home, job, etc. and then signing up with them to go overseas,"
Mary wrote. "We live in a city where the hispanic, non-english speaking
population is very high. Two weeks ago, we led 54 non-english speaking South
Americans to the Lord with an interpreter. But using TESOL, we can go back
into the area and offer them practical help and reach out to others with the
gospel." Either way, she'll compile every resource you've got. Be sure to
write her directly... no need to copy us here at Brigada. She'll send us
the finished product. (We always seem to get blitzed with "cc:" emails on
these projects. ) 
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