Brigada Today
13 of March, 1998
Now with 6920 participants! Just 80 away from 7000!!!
Can we make it to 7000 by next week (Brigada's 3rd birthday!)???
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Compiled by Doug Lucas <DLucas@teamexpansion.org>, Louisville, KY
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We're looking for 80 more subscribers by next Friday, March 20th -- because on March 21st we celebrate 3 years of
weekly Brigada Today newsletters . . . without ever missing a single weekend! So . . . in celebration of our
3-year-old birthday, we will be giving away a free one-year subscription to Brigada Today for every single new subscriber you bring to the network! That's a value of . . . well . . .
that's a value!!! (The truth is, subscriptions are already free... so something gets lost in the translation here... .) Bottom line . . . please help us spread the word. Since we don't have a fancy-shmancy marketing department
(or budget, for that matter), we have to rely on word-of-mouth publicity. Thanks! Our goal for March 21st 1999 is
10,000 subscribers!!! At that point, as far as we know, we'll be the largest on-line weekly Christian publication of
any kind - for whatever that's worth. (Do you know of any that's bigger? If so, let us know at DLucas@TeamExpansion.org. Thanks!) Thanks especially to our dynamite volunteers -- Bob Mayhew (web page designer, from
California) (Customer Services Managers, from Kansas), and all the regular contributors like
John Hanna ("Global Glimpse" compiler, from Colorado). Do we have an office? Nope. In fact, some of us have never even
met face to face! But through the magic of the Internet, we keep on pluggin' away! Thanks for helping to make the Brigada dream a reality! See last week's issue for details. In fact, you can get any back issue of Brigada Today that way . . . all 349,055 words that have been written since our birth in March 21st 1995!
CrossLink Communications has just invested in another year of sponsorship for Brigada expenses! If you get a
chance, drop them a note at sales@crosslinkcomm.net to say thanks for the partnership! After all, it's because of people like Crosslink that
we don't ask for subscription fees! How many sponsors does that make so far for 1998??? A record-setting 2!!! Thanks Sharon Gardner! CrossLink is a Christian based company that helps missionaries select the dialback company
best suited for their international calling patterns. Their mission is to help those in full time ministry conserve
their resources by finding cheaper ways of staying in touch with the "folks back home".
You can snail-mail Sharon and the CrossLink gang at CrossLink will be promoted as a Brigada network sponsor on the Brigada web page at http://www.brigada.org . If you'd like to sponsor a portion of Brigada's
expenses for web page hosting and hardware/software costs at MAFxc, just write The conference will feature leading religious liberty advocates and first person reports from many nations. THE GOSPEL FOR EVERY PEOPLE -- The Muslims of Malaysia; 5,000 come to Christ in Turkey; the Manam of Papua New
Guinea; the world's 10 largest megacities; outreach during the Kumbh Mela festival; Zimbabwe's Shangani people group;
the Jola of Senegal's Casamance region; consultation on strategic church planting among unreached people groups in
West Africa THE PERSECUTED CHURCH -- Shanghai house church leader serving a three-year labor camp sentence; Pakistani pastor
stabbed to death; Christian workers murdered in Rwanda; Orthodox caretaker killed in Turkey; Laotians arrested for
teaching the Bible in an unauthorized meeting in a private home SPIRITUAL FORCES OF DARKNESS -- Malaysia's Thaipusam festival; Brazilian witch gives her heart to Christ;
oppression of Muslim women; Karen women rescued from human zoos; Dutch doctor kills patient without permission;
outreach planned for "homosexual olympics" in Amsterdam REJOICE! -- Gospel cassette turns 38 to Christ in Nigeria; rapid advance of the Kingdom in Inner Mongolia; Bulgaria
recognizes evangelicals; spiritual hunger at southern Asia book fair; communist radio transmitter now broadcasts
into England; Scripture for Vietnam and Iraq; Chinese house church leader released from labor camp; church in Shenyang
grows from 220 members to 20,000; God's deliverance for Rwanda workers NETWORKING -- 30 Days of Prayer for Hindus; a wave of prayer for Iran; TRW's Global Challenge ministry; West Africa
church planting consultation; people group adoption video; pen pals needed for new Russian believers; intercessory
prayer calendar for China's gateway cities; anti-Christian legislation proposed in Japan; video documents Sudan
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