Brigada Today
21 Aug 1998
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Compiled by Doug Lucas <DLucas@teamexpansion.org>, Louisville, KY
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In this issue....
NEW VIDEO: "A HOPE AND A FUTURE FOR BOSNIA"
This one's brand new. In
fact, it won't even premier until the Antioch Network's "Gathering" in Phoenix,
AZ, on August 29th, at a special main session on Bosnia. But even if you aren't
coming to Phoenix . . . and even if your mission work is directed at a
completely different part of the world, Bosnia is a cauldron of conscience --
one that we can and should all lift up to the Father right now in prayer. You
won't regret ordering this video, organized in 5 major sections (in case you
want to use it across 5 different meetings): Introduction, History, Situation,
Challenge, and Testimony. I give you my word -- with this one video and the
tons of actual on-site footage gathered over the past 60 days in Bosnia, you'll
finally figure out what has happened there and how desperately that we need to
pray. The producer, Dave Dunlap, worked in audio and video for NBC television
for over 10 years. He still freelances regularly for CNN and documentaries like 20/20 and 60 Minutes. And every inch of this video is digitally processed
from start to finish... top quality for viewing or projecting to your family,
at your local church, or in your mission office, regardless of continent or
color. The price more accurately reflects Dave's mission vision than it does
the literally hundreds of hours he has invested on this project. He and his
wife personally traveled to Bosnia last month to help lead a prayer journey
there as a step in preparing it. They did so at their own expense. He could
have easily priced this 15-minute video at $45 or $60, but instead, he is
asking only $17 so that ANY church or mission or missions mobilizer will be
able to afford to make it a part of a "toolbox" toward understanding one of the
most desperate pressure cookers on our globe today. It's packed with sound
bytes from on-site workers (though on-site workers are relatively few in this
unreached land), actual footage from 10 different Bosnian cities and, practical
approaches to making a long-term difference. Much of the script was inspired by
text from Dick Alexander, a Senior Minister from Cincinnati, Ohio, who writes
out of his own quest to figure out the dilemma that is Bosnia. So... if you've
only got a $20 budget for videos in 1998, I hope you haven't already spent all
of it, because this one's a keeper. For more information, write Dave at 104165.2242@compuserve.com or simply send a check or money order payable to
Team Expansion
attn: Dave Dunlap
3700 Hopewell Rd.
Louisville, KY 40299
Tel. 1-800-447-0800
Fax 502-297-9823
(Dave says no credit cards on this one,
please.) If you're ordering the tape for a particular showing, please note your
deadline. Don't forget to add $3 shipping (unless you can pick up the tape in
person). If ordering from within the state of Kentucky, add $1.02 sales tax.
Now let's pray that God will use Dave's work to help make a long-term difference in Bosnia! Thanks Dave!
FOCUS ON MISSIONS TRIPS FOR FAMILIES
A Writer of AD2000 & Beyond urgently needs a list of mission agencies which organize short-term mission trips for whole families for an article in a major Christian magazine. (edited)
GET-AWAY TO THE GATEWAY TO THE NATIONS: HAWAII
Finally, a great reason to have to make the trip to the Hawaiian Islands -- an ACMC Conference! The theme
is "Hawaii, Gateway To The Nations" and it's scheduled for November 20-21, 1998
at the Kalihi Union Church, Honolulu. Speakers include Danny Lehmann (YWAM
Hawaiian Islands Director), Manny Fernandez (Director of Sefovan Seminary in
Madrid), and Woody Phillips (United World Mission, Union Mills, NC). With tons
of workshops . . . it's designed to help church leadership mobilize their
churches to grow His church locally and globally. For more information and/or
brochures for your church, kindly contact:
Greg Crawford
P O Box 2384
87-141 Maipalaoa Rd
Waianae Hawaii 96792
Tel of fax: 808-668-6569
email commit@juno.com
WORLD CUP MINISTRY HAILED AS GRAND SUCCESS
Michael Wozniak mwozniak@rbc.org has hailed the 1998 Olympics ministry, "The More Than Gold
World Cup event" ministry a great success. "It showed us the great evangelism
potential that sports has. No testimony was more powerful in reaching the kids
than seeing their soccer heroes testifying to their faith in Jesus Christ."
---Leader in Jordan. Some brief ministry highlights:The report, which seems like a modern-day chapter in the Book of Acts, can be downloaded and printed for your files.
LYRIS: WINDS OF CHANGE FOR MAFXC
If you're been listening, you know that
Lyris is coming. MAFxc has been working night and day all weekend to switch
over all Brigada email conferences to this new, more powerful, web-enabled
format. For more information, send an email message to this address: lyris-user-email-commands@xc.org The subject and message are irrelevant.
Watch for more information later as to how this new format can help you be
more effective at participating in on-line discussions.
GLOBAL GLIMPSE FROM INDIA
Prasad Shiva, a well-known Indian artist and Hindu, had agreed to illustrate Mark's gospel for a children's Bible. While
reading the text, he was so gripped by the message that he decided to become a
Christian. Despite the anger of some family members over his decision, his
mother and two brothers have also decided to become Christians. They are now
working together to illustrate the gospel.
(Source: Advance Newsletter 8/98, Kairos Press http://www.brigada.org)
Global Glimpse is compiled each week by John Hanna, Caleb Project, Littleton, CO.
COMICAL RESOURCES
Want to learn more about Christian comics? Here are sites and resources discovered by Mark Snowden Mark.Snowden(at)imb(dot)org (replace (at) with @ and (dot) with .. "The Picture Bible" by Iva Hoth and illustrated by Andre Le Blanc, 1993. This
is drawn with biblically accurate comic book-style art. The full-illustrated
Bible exists in Spanish and English. NT version exist in Hungarian,
Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak and German. Prices
for the English and Spanish OT/NT Bibles are $19.99. (English stock may be out of print!) The NTs are $8.99. Missionaries qualify for quantity
discounts: 4-10=15%, 11-20=20%, 21-30=30% and 30+=40%. Contact
Cook Communications International
4050 Lee Vance View
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
email ccmintl@ccmi.org
Nate Butler ChriCom@aol.com (Christian Comics) said several comics can be ordered from
United Bible Society
1865 Broadway
New York, NY 10023
Tel 212-408-1200
Check 'em out!
LENGTHY LIST OF LANGUAGES
Have you caught the lengthy list of languages, along with what is available in that language at the web site listed below (in
this paragraph)? If you have contact with a speaker of a little known language
you can check if Gospel Recordings has it (and what type of tape) or World
Missionary Press or Multi-Language Media, etc. A GOOD resource!! Website is Directory of Foreign Language Literature for Fundamental Baptists http://wayoflife.org/~dcloud/language/languages.htm 
Note: For some reason, I had to start at the http://wayoflife.org/~dcloud and drill my way down to languages, pointing and clicking.
EMAILERS WITH WINWORD: PLEASE TURN ME OFF!
If you regularly use WinWord to compose text, then copy and paste it into an email client and send it out to
friends, you might want to disable all the special publishers' symbols that
WinWord defaults to inserting. A week or two ago, a couple of those symbols
escaped my editing, throwing my email client into a high-end publishing emailer
-- creating tons of weird codes for you to sort through. So . . . if you
regularly write others who have ASCII-only readers... or even incompatible
readers, just go to "Tools|Options" then click on the "Autoformat" tab. Click
the four checkboxes in the "Replace as you type" group (erasing the checkmarks
in each one) so nothing will be replaced with these non-readable characters. You'll also have to deal with yet another liberty that WinWord takes with email
composers. Under "Tools|Autocorrect", there's a slew of "replace as you type"
options and this time, the ellipsis is among those who take a hit with
publisher's characters. If I were you, I'd scroll down 'til I find the
ellipsis character, then delete it from the options all together. Smiley faces
and other options are there for you to delete too. As an alternative, you
COULD just assign new keystrokes to that replacement, . . for example, use
/:-)
for the publisher's replacement smiley face and :-) for the more common ASCII
version when emailing. If you don't want to mess with ANY of these changes,
just click the box beside "Replace as you type" on that dialogue box and you'll
be fine. It'll disable ALL that sort of thing. And I, for one, would be grateful. 
WEB-WATCH: RESOURCE FOR GRIEVING SURFERS
If you're in the middle of suffering through some kind of grief, and you have access to the web, check out
the International Bible Society's online the booklet, Deeper Still. It
incorporates music, scripture and graphics at http://www.grieving.org
PPTP: NO FREE LUNCH FOR ENCRYPTION
Art's probably right . . . there's
probably no free lunch for those of us who were hoping Microsoft's
Point-to-point tunneling protocol would be THE answer to secure email. View the
thread at (get ready for a VERY long URL that you might have to paste to your
browser in more than one "copy" action): http://www.dejanews.com/=zzz_maf/dnquery.xp?search=thread&svcclass=dnserver&recn
BOOK-BYTE: MISSIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Okay . . . who will try out Tom
Telford's new book, Missions in the 21st Century? Directed at the mission
enthusiast/mission committee member, the publisher has promised special pricing
for Brigada participants at $7.50 including the postage to USA
addresses.(That's $1.50 less than the cheapest I can find!) Make check payable
to UWM and mail to
UWM
PO Box 430
Lederach PA 19450
ENGLISH: TEACH . . . OR BLEACH!!!
Millions of people all over the world
want to learn English! Who will teach them: Christians or the secular world?
Here's a TESOL course (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), with a
6 weeks of certificate-level training course which includes a two week English
teaching practicum. Learn how to teach English, build relationships, which will
lead people to Christ. Course held at the University of the Nations, Kona,
Hawaii. Courses held Jan 5-Feb. 17, 1999 (with optional 5-6 week outreach to
China). Also July 1-August 11, 1999 (with possible optional outreach). Contact
Vicky and David Scott vscott@kona.net for more info.
WATCH YOUR KIDS AND THEIR WEB-WATCHING
As computers become more and more accessible, more kids get caught up in certain parts of the web. Keith wrote
this past week to warn us that we should probably watch those "banner ads" . .
. since they aren't being filtered! Some, according to Keith, are suggestive.
NEED DEBRIEFING FROM A PACIFIC RIM MISSION ASSIGNMENT?
Don't forget Greg
Crawford, Commit Ministries tel. or FAX 808-668-6569, email commit@juno.com. We're hearing some VERY encouraging testimonies of his debriefing and reentry counseling work.
THE PLACE TO GO FOR PRAYING ABOUT A PLACE
Here's a book that Vaughn
Collins says we ought to read if we want to learn about "praying for a
particular place." Entitled, Territorial Spirits And World Evangelization,
by Chuck Lowe 1998, Christian Focus Publications, 170 pp. It can be ordered from
OMF Books
10 W. Dry Creek Circle
Littleton, CO 80120-4413, USA
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