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Brigada Today
29 Sep 2006
In this issue...
- GO EQUIPPED TENTMAKING COURSE IN OSLO NORWAY
- IN SEARCH OF WEBSITE HOSTS FOR TUNISIAN ARABIC MEDIA CONTENT
- HOW DO YOU TYPE IN ALL THOSE SPANISH CHARACTERS?
- RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ACROSS BORDERS
- THE LATEST DVD FROM CREATE INTERNATIONAL
- HELP THEM FIND THE MASTER COPY OF THE HAO XIAOXI VIDEO
- JOIN YWAM'S 48-HOUR DISASTER RELIEF RESPONSE HOTLINE
- IN PRAISE OF THOSE STANDING IN THE GAP
- THE BACKPAGE: MK RESOURCE LIST YOU'LL WANT TO SEE
- CLOSING STUFF
- GO EQUIPPED TENTMAKING COURSE IN OSLO NORWAY -- Global Opportunities and TENT Norway have joined forces to put together intensive, focused courses for those wanting to investigate tentmaking. Yet another new course will be launched this November 16-19, open for everyone as all the teaching is in English. This course is identical to the ones being run annually in Fort Myers FLA in the winter, Bergen Norway in the spring (at the TENT headquarters) and in Victoria BC Canada in the summer. You will hear from international speakers with tentmaking experience: Gerson Celeti from Italy, Ari Rocklin from Canada and Steinar Opheim from Norway. For more information and to register for the Oslo course, browse to
http://www.tent.no/arrangement
or write steinar(dot)opheim(at)tent(dot)no [As a means of preventing spam for our contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with .].
- IN SEARCH OF WEBSITE HOSTS FOR TUNISIAN ARABIC MEDIA CONTENT -- Some audio recordings of Tunisian dialect Arabic scriptures and worship music have been recorded. Now the question is, how can it be made available for the first time to 10 million Tunisians? If you know of a ministry (maybe especially one that focuses on media and Arabs...?) that would post this content online, please email details to:
tunisia(at)nym(dot)hush(dot)com [As a means of preventing spam for our contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with .]
- HOW DO YOU TYPE IN ALL THOSE SPANISH CHARACTERS? -- Take a tip from one of the Spanish-speaking Team Expansion workers documented here:
http://bushnells.teamexpansion.org/Misc/KeyboardLayout.htm
He says once you've shifted to this approach, you'll never go back. (Thanks Chris!!!)
- RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ACROSS BORDERS -- Streams in the Desert delivers relief and development to the unreached through cyberspace, utilizing a network of dispatches. A dispatch is an individual, team, family, YWAM base, or ministry on location in any part of the world where there is a relief and development need. Streams' dispatches focus primarily on community-based development, in particular to disabled or handicapped children, involving the child's family and eventually the neighborhood and surrounding community. Dispatches are primarily linked through Streams' e-mail group, which facilitates the transfer of external resources with needs in the dispatch's location. Dispatches are also coordinated with field mediators in a particular region. As of April 2006 there were 24 countries with dispatches. Streams also contribute to relief and development through training. Streams in the Desert is an expanding ministry with expanding staff needs, in particular in the areas of personnel/registrar, administration, mobilization, accounting/bookkeeping, and communication. The door is wide open for dispatches (YWAM or non-YWAM) staff, and outreach teams to join in its strategic ministry of relief and development. For more information, contact or write the Streams Center, Email: streams7(at)juno(dot)com [As a means of preventing spam for our contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with .]
or log on at...
http://www.streams7.multiply.com
- THE LATEST DVD FROM CREATE INTERNATIONAL -- Hot off the presses is the New Contextual Gathering Showreel. This DVD features 5 examples of how home fellowships can be contextualised to reach the target audience. Now subtitled in English, this resource includes 3-5 minutes preview clips from our Kurdish, Turkish, Urdu, Indonesian and Hindi full length productions. Find this powerful example at:
http://www.createinternational.com
- HELP THEM FIND THE MASTER COPY OF THE HAO XIAOXI VIDEO -- This evangelistic Mandarin video is having a *huge* impact among villagers and animists in China, but no one's been able to dub it into minority languages because no one knows who produced this video and thus there's no way to get hold of the original master audio and video tracks. Rumor has it that this video was produced in Korea. If you have any info on who has produced this video, please write
taihaole(at)pobox(dot)com and let us know. [As a means of preventing spam for our contributors, in the preceding email address please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with .]
- JOIN YWAM'S 48-HOUR DISASTER RELIEF RESPONSE HOTLINE -- Disaster strikes. News reaches YWAM Kuala Lumpur. E-mails are fired out, phone calls made, meetings arranged. Within 24 hours YWAM recruits are mobilized from nearby bases. 24 hours after that they are on-site. Sound impossible? That's the vision of the Disaster and Relief Office for Southeast Asia and Australia. Volunteers may come from any ministry in the world, must be available to reach a disaster stricken area once called, and must have the heart first of a servant. Medical training, construction work, and counseling skills are a plus. E-mail Elisha Tan at the Disaster and Relief Office for Southeast Asia and Australia at
taikien(at)streamyx(dot)com [As a means of preventing spam for our contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with .]
- IN PRAISE OF THOSE STANDING IN THE GAP -- Do you think these gifts encourage us here at Brigada? You bet they do. I can't tell you how motivating it is. (Witness that I'm here at midnight doing this Brigada.) These people and groups stood in the gap this past week:
GMI - $25 in honor of those who bought the Buddhist World CD. See their website at
http://www.gmi.org
In addition, $101.79 from Dial-abroad as a means of saying thanks for several players who went with dial-abroad.com (in July & August) [Please keep talking!] And $11.29 from Blessed Hope (Accxx communications) to say thanks for those who used their long distance service in June. Sign up at:
http://www.lowermyphonebill.com/brigada
Insurance Services of America stood good on their offer to share from insurance policies you bought for short-term mission trip travel by sending $ 115.92 (Please keep insuring! :-) ). Learn about their great policies at
http://www.missionaryhealth.net/brigada.htm
Hats off, too, to the Peninsula Bible Church in Cupertino for sending $150. Please... if you're searching for a church home with a missions heart, consider them. Learn more at
http://www.pbcc.org/
What's more, we received great and encouraging gifts in these amounts from anonymous helpers: $200, $100, $25, $50, $50, $50, $26, $25, $25, $10 and $100 from the President of initiative 360. One anonymous donor wrote, "I know Brigada has served many Navigator missionaries including me. Thanks for your service to the Body." Another wrote, "Keep up the excellent work." Thank you so much for the encouragement.
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- THE BACKPAGE: MK RESOURCE LIST YOU'LL WANT TO SEE -- I've saved this item for the "Back Page" editorial in this rare case for a couple of reasons. First, because it's probably one of the best compilations we've ever seen at Brigada -- in 11 long years, a new edition every week, and this one takes the cake. It's neat, it's thorough, it's comprehensive, and yet it's still easy to digest. What's more, it's free and available.
But we saved it for another reason: because to us, it typifies the spirit of Brigada. Just imagine... an organization (Team Expansion) hires on a new worker as MK Coordinator. How does she get started? She volunteers to serve as the compiler of a resource listing of MK information. She puts her plea in Brigada and dozens of willing contributors send her mongo reference lists of information. Heather has to cull through it all, take out the duplicates, organize it, then return the completed listing back to Brigada.
Now the payback: Think of the resource she has in her hands. She knows it backward and forward (because she wrote it) and she can instantly use it in her daily work. But unselfishly, she instantly makes it available to an entire *wave* of people in the same vocation. So *everybody* comes out the winner.
Shouldn't that be merely an example of what we *all* do for our various roles and specialties? But make no mistake: it takes work, follow- through, and volunteerism. With those 3 ingredients, this system is a lay-down. And Heather had them all, in abundance.
So -- here's the fruit of her labor... and of everyone working together on Brigada. Thanks to those who contributed:
http://www.brigada.org/today/articles/mk_resources.pdf
So... hats off to you Heather... and all those who pitched in ideas. Bravo!
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