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Brigada Today
28 Sep 2007
In this issue...
- CUTTING HEALTH INSURANCE COSTS
- ATTEND REGIONAL MOBILIZATION MEETINGS (SAMPLE IN PITTSBURGH)
- FREE WEBSITE OFFERS HELPFUL RESOURCES
- PRE-FIELD TRAINING IN ASIA FOR ASIA MINISTRY
- THE 'EASY' TANZANIAN LANGUAGES TEAM NOW HAVE THEIR OWN WEBSITE
- OMF BC EVENTS IN OCTOBER
- GLOBAL MISSIOLOGY "ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY" EDITION
- THE COMING REVOLUTION
- OMF REACHING CHINA
- WHAT'S THE RATIO OF YOUTH WORKERS TO YOUTH IN THE FIELD?
- HATS-OFF TO BRIGADA SPONSORS
- WOULD YOUR CHURCH CONSIDER A ONE-TIME GIFT TO SPUR ON BRIGADA?
- THE BACK PAGE: EXPLORE, DREAM, DISCOVER
- CLOSING STUFF
- CUTTING HEALTH INSURANCE COSTS -- Cutting health insurance costs for
home base staff and overseas workers is always challenging. One solution
might be to consider a Self-Funded plan. Now groups as small as 11
employees can get self-funded (StopLoss) quotes. One key advantage of a
self-funded plan is that you keep more of your health insurance premium
in your organization. For more information contact
jeff(at)gninsurance(dot)com or call 480/813-9100. [As a means of
preventing spam for our contributors, in the preceding email
address(es), please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with .] Toll free in
USA: 866/636-9100. Visit
http://www.gninsurance.com
- ATTEND REGIONAL MOBILIZATION MEETINGS (SAMPLE IN PITTSBURGH) -- Are
you located in the Pittsburgh area? Here's a sampling of a couple of
major missionary mobilization meetings you can attend. Wouldn't it be
cool of there were more of these kinds of meetings all around the world?
As for Pittsburgh, "The Pittsburgh Network for the Great Commission"
Breakfast meeting is about to cover "Native American Awareness." The'll
also interview a Cuban Pastor, all on Saturday, Oct.13,2007, 8:30-
10:30am at West Ridge Community Church.
http://www.wrccc.org
or call 724-695-7500 RSVP to
slonchka(at)comcast(dot)net
You can also catch "Praise & Prayer over Pittsburgh", 7:00pm, Oct.13,
2007 at West End Overlook Park. Special Guests include Richard Twiss and
Darrell Fields, & Michael Duncan Project, Prayer led by Pittsburgh area
Pastors. A coordinated effort by the Pittsburgh Prayer Network
http://www.prayforpittsburgh.org and the Pittsburgh Network for the
Great Commission
http://www.pngc.org (website under construction)
(Truth in publicizing notice: Hats off to this network for sending in a
check to support Brigada! That just makes me doubly want to ask that
you'll be there! :-) )
- FREE WEBSITE OFFERS HELPFUL RESOURCES -- Looking for info on
leadership and leadership training. Check out...
http://www.teal.org.uk/index.htm
The best part? It's all free.
- PRE-FIELD TRAINING IN ASIA FOR ASIA MINISTRY -- For anyone planning
to minister in Asia, an excellent nine-week program is conducted once a
year in Malaysia. The Malaysian Cross-Cultural Mission School (MCMS)
will be conducted in Kuala Lumpur, beginning January 7 and continuing
through March 16, 2008. It is an intensive program that covers the
practical challenges of cross-cultural ministry. MCMS faculty includes
missionaries and mission leaders from many parts of the world who are
involved in the real life of a missionary. This is no "Ivory Tower"
theoretical pastime; it's the real thing! For more details, talk with
Peter, the director. E-mail:
peters(at)linkmail(dot)org [As a means of preventing spam for our
contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace (at)
with @ and (dot) with .]
- THE 'EASY' TANZANIAN LANGUAGES TEAM NOW HAVE THEIR OWN WEBSITE --
This site is
http://easytanzanianbibles.googlepages.com/home
and it is totally Tanzanian as regards authorship, checking, field-
testing, copyright and ownership. The leader is Revd Samuel Mpanilehi at
smpanilehi(at)gmail(dot)com , who works in close fellowship with
http://www.easyBibles.com
where over twenty such projects are developing.
- OMF BC EVENTS IN OCTOBER -- OMF (Overseas Missionary Fellowship) in
B.C. invites you to the following events: 1. Saturday, October 13 (1:30
- 6:00 pm ending with a Chinese supper), Heart for Asia Conference in
Victoria, 2. Friday night, October 19, from 7:30 - 9:30 pm, OMF together
with Fujian Evangelical Church (FEC) present Youth and Missions. 3.
Saturday, October 20, from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, Heart for Asia Conference
to be held at Peace Mennonite Church (PMC). The theme for the events is:
Passion for the Impossible - Reaching the Neglected Frontiers. For more
info, including themes and speakers, email:
pacificregion(at)shawlink(dot)ca or call 604.278.1208.
- GLOBAL MISSIOLOGY "ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY" EDITION -- Global
Missiology is a free quarterly online publication with original research
and contributions from practitioners and scholars of international
representation with global perspectives. The third quarter English
language issue is focused on the subject of "Islam and Christianity" and
has just been made available. Chinese and French editions are also
available with articles that are not translations of the English, but
rather original contributions from specialists working in those language
contexts. All versions can be found at
http://www.globalmissiology.org
as well as a complete searchable archive of more than 4 years worth of
articles. email
editor(at)globalmissiology(dot)org [As a means of preventing spam for
our contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace
(at) with @ and (dot) with .]
- THE COMING REVOLUTION -- Because, according to at least one author,
Status Quo Missions Won't Finish The Job. Check out this new book just
released by R. Mark Baxter. After some stories and shocking statistics,
Mark shares reasons for the present state of missions, the potential
that exists to see the Great Commission fulfilled, and ways to
personally get involved. More information on The Coming Revolution is
available at
http://shop.blessthenations.com
Also, you can email Mark at
missionsconsultants(at)yahoo(dot)com
- OMF REACHING CHINA -- International has been reaching East Asia with
the gospel since Hudson Taylor founded the organization as China Inland
Mission in 1865. If you would like to get involved in a work that
includes more than 1,500 workers from 20 countries with a focus on more
than 400 unreached people groups throughout East Asia, visit
http://www.omf.org/us
- WHAT'S THE RATIO OF YOUTH WORKERS TO YOUTH IN THE FIELD? -- Would
anyone happen to know about how many young people there are in any
cross-cultural settings? ... and how many Christian workers are serving
primarily for their benefit? In other words, what's the ratio of youth
workers per youth? Got an idea to post? Just navigate to:
http://brigada.org/brigade/?p=37
And click "Comment" below the item. Thanks!
- HATS-OFF TO BRIGADA SPONSORS -- Thanks to the West Ridge Christian
Church
http://www.wrccc.org
for their innovative and encouraging support of regional missions
mobilization meetings. May God bless their $100 gift to Brigada. We
appreciate you!
Thanks, too, for the anonymous donors who gave $100 and $25 this past
week, along with the prayer coordinator who gave $25. Thanks, too, to
Blessed Hope who gave $15.47 in sponsorship gifts. Learn more about
their great phone plans at
http://www.lowermyphonebill.com/brigada
Thanks to the Kingdom Come Training worker who gave $20. May God bless
their training outreach for His glory.
Finally, may God bless the radio ministry workers who just sent $100.
We're so thankful for their love for you, for your work around the
world, and for getting the message out via radio.
- WOULD YOUR CHURCH CONSIDER A ONE-TIME GIFT TO SPUR ON BRIGADA? --
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- THE BACK PAGE: EXPLORE, DREAM, DISCOVER -- This past weekend, I was
fortunate to have the privilege of leading a couple of sessions for some
adult children of missionaries (MKs). One referred to a quote by Mark
Twain about sails. I looked it up when I got home. Twain was reported to
have said, "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the
bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your
sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." It's important to note that no one can
find the source of this quote, so it's likely that Mark Twain never
actually said it. Regardless of who said it, it got me thinking.
And in the process of thinking about it, I came across something that
Twain *did* actually say, in "Innocents Abroad": "What is it that
confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast
with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him?
Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked;
that you are beholding what human eye has not see before; that you are
breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea-an intellectual
nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plow had gone
over before. To be the first--that is the idea. To do something, say
something, see something, before anybody else--these are the things that
confer a pleasure compared with other pleasures are tame and
commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Lifetimes of ecstasy
crowded into a single moment."
When it comes to mobilizing missionaries, we haven't talked much about
discovery and adventure -- even though much of evangelistic missionary
work involves it. I think it's because we're afraid we'll breed only
missionary-tourists. But there is a sense in which the pioneer spirit is
not only preferred, but actually *required* by some missionary
opportunities. Some call it an "apostolic gift." Call it what you want,
but when Paul forged on through shipwrecks & stoning, the truth is, he
was pioneering. When he believed so strongly in the Cause that he
traveled on foot throughout the known world of his day, he was
pioneering. Paul's musing about going where no man has gone before
(Romans 15:20) is enough to cause me to believe Twain was on the right
track. We probably need to talk some about adventure, dreaming, thinking
big. We need some big thinkers today. Thinkers that will dream, then
*do*. After all, Twain also is reported to have said, "There are
basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people
who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded."
That's all I've got to say about that.
Doug
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