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Brigada Today
01 Sep 2006
In this issue...
- GREAT INT'L AND DOMESTIC CALLING RATES FROM US
- GREAT TESTIMONY FROM A PRAYING FIELD WORKER
- TRAIN AS A STRATEGIC COORDINATOR IN PERTH, AUSTRALIA
- LEARN A PRACTICAL SKILL FOR MISSIONS
- GET THE SKINNY ON CANADIAN SUBSIDIES
- CHECK OUT THE LATEST LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE USA
- SEEKING OTHERS UTILIZING NATIONAL TRANSLATORS
- BREAKING BARRIERS
- BE A PIONEER; HELP BRIGADA CHART NEW TERRITORY
- THE BACK PAGE: BONDING AND THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE
- CLOSING STUFF
- GREAT INT'L AND DOMESTIC CALLING RATES FROM US -- Now you can get great calling rates for domestic (starting at 1.9cents/min to continental US and Canada) and international calls (200 countries for less than 10cents/min ...UK 3cents, France 3cents, Russia/Moscow 2.5cents, Israel 3.2cents, Colombia/SA 4.2cents, South Africa 9cents) from the USA. Call from any touchtone phone including cell. It's a prepaid service, so there are no contracts, no monthly, activation, or connection fees, no need to switch carriers. Plus, you can get up to 470 free minutes on signup and get lots of convenience features. For more info go to:
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- GREAT TESTIMONY FROM A PRAYING FIELD WORKER -- We asked recently how to get rank and file Christians to pray, in sending nations. One responded from a Muslim land, "I'm ... a first-term missy. Here's my short prayer story: Bought "Operation: World" (by Patrick Johnstone) in 8/93 after being rebuked as part of a campus ministry staff group of 60 who, among us, only had 2 copies of Op World. Evidently, we weren't praying for world missions very much, concluded our European director. But it sat on my shelf 4 months, being overwhelmingly large and with small type. Then came a Christmas conference at which an inspiring speaker told about the prayerfulness of Koreans with all their legendary prayer fasts, early mornings, etc. So I covenanted with the Lord to pray 2 minutes a day out of Operation World in 1994, without fail. Maybe I missed 5 or 6 days that year, but I always doubled up the next day. Key Principle: Start small enough to be faithful. Pray the Spirit gets people hooked.
2 minutes/day in Op World hardly scratches the surface, but it got me hooked. 10 minutes/day in 1995. 1 hour/day in 1996. In 1997 I started using other prayer materials. After getting married it decreased to 30 minutes/day for world missions, where it remains today." So there you have it... the power of prayer on a daily manageable basis. Want Operation: World for yourself? Get it here on cd:
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- TRAIN AS A STRATEGIC COORDINATOR IN PERTH, AUSTRALIA -- Strategic Coordinator Training is about planning and implementing evangelism and church planting among your favourite segment of society. It's an intense 3-week seminar (19th February to 9th March 2007) led by veteran missionaries experienced at implementing people- and city-transforming strategies. You will create a working plan for the evangelization of your focus population; be it gothic youth in London, indigenous peoples of Australia, an unreached people group in Africa or a mega-city in Asia. Contact the Registrar: info(at)ywamperth(dot)org(dot)au or telephone +61 8 9328 5321 or fax +61 8 9328 1324 or log onto:
http://www.ywamperth.org.au (They'd like to know if you read about it in Brigada, by the way. :-) )
- LEARN A PRACTICAL SKILL FOR MISSIONS -- Simplified dental care can open many doors to evangelism and relationship building among the unreached. No drills, injections, electricity, or sophisticated equipment are involved - only simple hand instruments, a compassionate heart, and two weeks of your time. Now you can bring greatly needed dental care to your community. Courses offered monthly in Texas.
http://www.dentaltrainingformissions.com or email dentaltrainingformissions(at)yahoo(dot)com [As a means of preventing spam for our contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with .]
- GET THE SKINNY ON CANADIAN SUBSIDIES -- The Canadian subsidy Directory is now available. It contains more than 3100 listings of grants and loans offered by both the federal, provincial governments, foundations and associations. Find a wealth of information that could help you start a business, improve existent activities, set up a business plan, finance personal projects, studies and research or obtain assistance from experts in various fields of interest. The American Grants and Loans Directory is also available for the United States. Get the CD version for $69.95 and the printed version: $149.95. To order call: +1-819-322-7533.
- CHECK OUT THE LATEST LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE USA -- Interested in nonprofit and church law in the USA. Don't miss the latest issue of the "Nonprofit and Church Legal Trends Memorandum." Just browse to:
http://www.npchurchlaw.com
Take a look at the IRS's "Dirty Dozen" tax scams for this year. Discover your obligation to report bylaw changes. Learn more about deducting unreimbursed travel expenses, and a whole lot more. As usual, the summary is free . . . and you can always subscribe for deeper explanations.
- SEEKING OTHERS UTILIZING NATIONAL TRANSLATORS -- Roger Doriot is involved in training Mother Tongue Translators and facilitating several new Bible translation projects in Papua, Indonesia (formerly Irian Jaya). He is very interested in contacting others involved in this area (to share ideas) and others interested in praying for this area. He says: "The Lord is doing some GREAT things in Papua (and world-wide) using national translators to translate back into their own languages!" Write to: rogerdoriot(at)yahoo(dot)com [As a means of preventing spam for our contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with .]
- BREAKING BARRIERS -- The International School of Reconciliation Studies invites you to spend 3 memorable days with international reconcilers and praying servants as they talk story, laugh, listen, ponder and humble their way deeper into God’s heart, October 16-18 in Rostrevor, North Ireland. For details go to
http://www.reignbridge.com/?page=ire-res
or email fawn(at)reignbridge(dot)com [As a means of preventing spam for our contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with .]
- BE A PIONEER; HELP BRIGADA CHART NEW TERRITORY -- Want to help Brigada Today carve out new resources and share them with the circled wagons of Brigada? To make your gift that counts, just click on "sponsor" in the top menu (to use PayPal or a credit card), or if you prefer, send a check payable to Team Expansion to: Team Expansion (Brigada secretary), 11327 Jefferson Trace Blvd., Louisville, KY 40291. As always, be sure to let us know if you'd like us to promote any particular service or ministry, or if you'd prefer your gift be anonymous. In any case, thanks for considering Brigada in your estate giving, your monthly church missions fund, and/or your own personal giving for this calendar year.
- THE BACK PAGE: BONDING AND THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE -- Remember Tom & Betty Sue Brewster's little blue booklet on bonding? Do missionaries still do that today? I don't hear a lot about it . . . and in the hustle and bustle of every day life, I wonder if we've lost a bit of that tradition. My wife and I utilized the Brewsters' "sink-or-swim" method, first for 2 weeks in Chile, then again for a month in Uruguay. It was one of those "best-of-times, worst-of-times" experiences, where our Uruguayan family loved us and sheltered us, while at the same time added a dimension of stress to our lives at a time when we probably already had enough. Nevertheless, for whatever reason (be it bonding or otherwise) we became "best friends" with Uruguayan culture and the language "stuck" in my throat. To this day, for reasons that only God knows for sure, when I speak Spanish, people still ask me if my parents or I am from the Southern Cone [of South America].
But that was the early 80s. And this is now. How 'bout the rookies of '06. Are you still moving in with a local family in your destination country of calling? If so, write a quick paragraph about it to:
brigada-feedback(at)googlegroups(dot)com
You don't have to join the group... You'll receive no reply... (and no chance of spam). There's only one member there -- me. I'll share a summary report later here in Brigada.
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