Brigada Today
27 of February, 1998
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Compiled by Doug Lucas <DLucas@teamexpansion.org>, Louisville, KY
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Well I've got good
news and bad news regarding last week's item on "Joshua Harvest: All Peoples,
All Persons" ("FROM THE 'WORD ON THE STREET' DEPARTMENT... THE LATEST ON AD2000"). The good news is that evidently Brigada Today is being read by lots
of missions leaders who in turn wrote lots of other missions leaders and
apparently asked quite a number of questions about the item. The bad news is,
the "word on the street" might have taken us slightly down the wrong road.
Here's the deal: Apparently, there is a plan entitled, "Joshua Harvest: All
Peoples, All Persons" that is "in the works," being considered by AD2000 &
Beyond leadership. However, it is apparently not totally approved at this point
(though many have voiced strong support for it). But evidently our biggest
error last week was our indication that AD2000's International Office (IO)
would, in this case, not be shutting down. Quite the contrary, apparently the
plan is for the IO to not be leading the movement at that point. Now don't ask
me how that's going to play out -- because I'm not exactly sure (e.g., how can
we have international events without an international coordinating office?) --
but the bottom line is that the IO is shutting down as previously announced,
immediately after wrap-up of the final consultation, which is occurring at the
end of the year 2000. (For more information about this consultation, see the
next item.) Now... how can we be sure that this is not just a rumor? Because this time, we received messages directly from Luis Bush himself, who happened
to be hearing about the Brigada Today item all the way over in Israel, where
he was conducting meetings to plan a major AD2000 event! He wrote us, some 24
hours after the item went out last week, "Greetings from the Holy Land! The
meetings of the International Coordinating Committee regarding Celebrate
Messiah 2000 have just come to a close. In the course of these days together,
as we gazed out the balcony of the room we were meeting at with the Dome of the
Rock and Jerusalem in plain view we experienced the presence of God in a most
unusual way...." Luis added elsewhere, "...The International Office is planning
to close down shortly after the event here [in Jerusalem]. The termination of
the non-profit organization AD2000 [& Beyond] Movement Inc is planned and all
staff will be out of a job. A close down plan was already presented to the US
Support Committee in our last meeting and approved." So... looks like we've got
to look for a job for Luis after all! 
Now maybe you think I'm joking . . . but if you have any doubts, retrieve the email message
he sent. Read it word-for-word in its entirety. in the body of the message. This will
automatically add you to the mailing list. Obviously,
. . . substitute your own name for the "Your Name" in the
instructions above. (Duh...)
It explains good protocol for interacting in the Brigada family of email conference networks. Those with additional suggestions are welcome to submit them to DLucas@TeamExpansion.org.
Last week's item, "WHERE HAVE ALL THE SPANISH GONE?"
rang a gong in the hearts of several Spanish speaking
missions mobilizers. Evidently, there have been several compilations of
organizations that send Spanish speakers. Are there any posted on the web? If
so, drop me a note... and . . . perdone me por favor. Thanks for the ideas in response to
last week's item, "WE'RE NEARLY 3 YEARS OLD!" I particularly liked the one
that suggested we mail out pieces of birthday cake to each and every subscriber. (Yeah right! ) Although we're still unsure how to celebrate,
the event is fast approaching. March 21st marks 3 years in Brigada business. I
wonder if we can reach the 7000 mark (7000 subscriber/participants) by March
21st? Tall order. Would you invite 3 friends to join the Brigada network this
week??? Just clip the final item (on how to subscribe) and send it their way. 
Searching for an easy way to load in a bunch of bookmarks into your browser?
(bookmarks are the "shortcuts" that let you jump from one web site to the next
on the Worldwide Web). This can be a big-time need if you have recently
switched over, say, from Netscape to Microsoft Internet Explorer (which seems
to be happening more and more these days, by the way). Well now you can get
Doug's "mother of all favorite sites" bookmark files -- FOR FREE! Zillions of
bookmarks, including missions orgs, mission sites, mission research sites, and
travel sites galore. (I've got a partner who has been buggin' me to prepare
this for months! Sorry it's taken me this long, Eric!) Add to that a bundle of
news sites, software URLs, computers & technology, and more! Well in the "old
days," it wasn't as easy as you'd think -- to combine the bookmarks in the file
you're already using with a "mother of all bookmark files" from somebody else's
browser. But now there's a way! Just hop on the web and download "SyncURLs" first. It's a free program on the Brigada site that lets you merge bookmark
files (from either Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer! Organizes them in
a tree outline, exports to whichever browser you want... or both! Then you can
grab Doug's "mother of all favorite sites" file and combine it with your own in
whatever way you want! And in the future, if you ever want to export your file
to your buddy's browser's format, no problem! So... get it today! . . . for
free! Get SyncURLs by pointing your browser to: http://www.teamexpansion.org/tools/syncur.zip When your browser asks you if you want to execute or save, just choose "save"
and pick out a suitable folder on your hard drive (don't forget where you store
it!). You'll need the capability to unzip files. (If you don't have pkunzip,
talk to a computer tech to get it.) This is a 321K file that gives you the
executable (courtesy PC Magazine; thanks!). Then grab the "mother of all
bookmark files" by pointing your browser to: http://www.teamexpansion.org/tools/bookmarks.htm Once you're there, use "save as" to save that file on your own hard drive as
bookmarks.htm in your Netscape users directory, under your name. If there's
already a file there by that name, don't overwrite it with the new file. Use
SyncURLs to merge the new and the old! Import your own bookmark file over the
top and you're in business! See the help file for instructions -- it's very
thorough. We regret that we cannot answer mail asking for tech support for this
process. If you need help, see a computer tech in your town or office. (Hey --
if we answered help mail all day, we'd never get our own mission work done! ) 
I'm
humbled and sobered by their dedication. They've picked one of the "hardest"
groups to reach . . . and yet they're undaunted by the task. In the
Faith-Promise missions weekend (at which they had invited me to speak), they
pledged thousands of dollars per month for missions, including a great start-up
seed fund for their new PACE Project (adopting that unreached people group and
following a specific plan to plant a church there). If this whole process can
now just be replicated a couple of thousand times, with each church taking
responsibility for different unreached people groups, I'm confident we'll see
some pretty amazing stuff happen during the coming years!!! May God grant them
. . . and you . . . lots of determination and wisdom as you seek to mobilize
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