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20 of February, 1998
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Compiled by Doug Lucas <DLucas@teamexpansion.org>, Louisville, KY
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Not sure how we'll be able to celebrate it. We're open for
ideas! Send your best idea to DLucas@TeamExpansion.org. I mean... after all . . . what are we going to do with 20 jobless people? And I can't think
of much of anything more discouraging than seeing Luis Bush with nothing to mobilize! So... here's the deal... here's the latest of what we're
hearing. Apparently, the latest leak out of Colorado Springs is that AD2000
will be kicking off a new program called, "Joshua Harvest: All Peoples, All
Persons." Can you believe it? (You think I'm joking. ) This thrust will
seek to expand the criteria of the Joshua Project from its current
"mongo-tight" restrictions (e.g., greater than 10,000 in pop., less than 2%
evangelical, no church of 100 in their midst, etc.) to a much broader
definition of [basically any] ethnolinguistic and ethnocultural peoples. The
primary focus will remain that of making disciples among the spiritually
neediest peoples of the world. A similar approach will be adopted to that of
Joshua Project 2000. This will apparently entail coordinated research, a
common database, enhancements of existing efforts, and a total commitment to mutual
cooperation in all things. The aim would be to establish a life-giving
congregation of believers among each of the world's people groups. So...
relax... and breathe again... Luis Bush and company won't be jobless on Jan.
2nd, 2001! And ... barring the 2nd coming... neither will we! 
Remember our reference to the Givers Ministry... http://www.giversministry.org which focused on finding
needs and meeting them? " POST YOUR FINANCIAL NEEDS AND HOPE TO FIND
A GIVER!" Well... ahem... come to find out they specialize in tangible,
non-monetary gifts! Sorry gang. They've had zillions of hits (the exact
quote was, "We have been overwhelmed...") from folks wanting to . . . . put
them in touch, so to speak, with potential giving targets... and actually what
they're hoping to clarify... or what they're hoping I can clarify... is that they only give non-financial gifts. But that's still cool... think
about .... automobiles, computers, musical instruments, building materials,
food, clothing, medical supplies / equipment, electrical / mechanical items,
etc.! Want to email them? Use info@giversministry.org instead of the address we
gave earlier. Sorry about that Joe. Hope you can get your email inbox cleaned
out sometime next century! ) Honest. Great idea. So he's trying to find out which agencies and
orgs. try to send Spanish-speakers to China (and other creative access
countries) as a means of sharing Christ there. So if you've heard about a team
from Venezuela working in Algeria, Dan would like to know! Note that he's not
looking for the names of those who have gone (which would be a security
risk), but rather, the agencies which seek to send them or enable them to go.
Send your best ideas to Dan at djohnson@c.net.gt and he'll compile the
results for us here. We might just have a copy of the first ever
compilation of mission sending agencies for Spanish-speakers! 
Dan Scribner wrote
this past week from the AD2000 & Beyond International Office to clarify ways
and means of finding out more about the "score" on reaching Joshua Project
unreached peoples. He wrote, "You could download the file at ftp://ftp.ad2000.org/pub/ad2000/jpldbf.zip or check the index at http://www.ad2000.org/peoples/index.htm to find out which of the 1739 Joshua
Project People groups were not "claimed" as of this past July. ...The Joshua
Project list is being updated daily and a fresh copy is available at the sites
mentioned above. There have probably been over 500 major and minor
corrections in JPL.DBF since July 1997. There is a new field in JPL.DBF called UNTARGETED
which replaces NOCOMT172. NOCOMT172 is still in the database so we can
identify the 172, but that is no longer the focus. At the moment the AD2000
WWW site is still showing mini-profiles for only the 1739 original Joshua
Project peoples..., but the JPLDBF.ZIP file has all the peoples that have ever
been considered for the Joshua Project list (original 1739 list, updated /
current list, peoples not matching the criteria, etc.)" Thanks Dan! We
appreciate your ministry at the "IO"!!! 
If you've been following the progress of that
new "online school," you've probably been pretty busy! Brett Bowers brett@cyberhigh.org wrote this past week to update us on CyberHigh/NorthStar
Academy and the plans sound great. Check 'em out at http://www.northstar-academy.org or write Brett directly. What a great option
to add to home schooling as an alternative to boarding schools for those
working in remote areas! 
If you subscribed to a MAFxc email
conference (MAFxc hosts all Brigada conferences) during the dates Feb. 14-18,
odds are, your new subscription was lost and you'll have to subscribe again.
Apparently, on Feb. 18th, MAFxc experienced a big-time crash which forced them
to use the most recent backup they had (from 4 days earlier). At the same
time, MAFxc has installed a new server and new www software that will more than
triple the speed of their outputs. Hang in there, MAFxc! 
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as overseas. These publications are attractive compilations of verses on
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