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Brigada Today
22 Feb 2008
In this issue...
- INT'L CHURCH STEPS UP TO SPONSOR BRIGADA
- ANT TO BE ONE OF THOSE DIFFERENCE-MAKERS?
- LEARN MORE ABOUT REACHING INTO CHINA
- OLYMPICS PUT CHINA ON CENTER STAGE
- NEW DVD RESOURCES ONLINE
- THE DAMARA PEOPLE: PRECIOUS STONES
- PARTNERSHIP FOR ASIA CONFERENCE
- FREE DOWNLOADABLE EVANGELISTIC FILMS
- INT'L CHRISTIAN SCHOOL IN THAILAND NEEDS DIRECTOR
- GROUPLY.COM THREAT NOT A PROBLEM FOR BRIGADA
- THE BACKPAGE: HOW DO WE HELP A CHURCH EMBRACE THE LOST?
- CLOSING STUFF
- INT'L CHURCH STEPS UP TO SPONSOR BRIGADA -- Hats *way* off to the
member of an International Church in the Middle East. He just wrote,
"Five years ago our new pastor was reading Brigada and learned about the
Missional International Church Network (MICN.org) and went to their
first conference. He's been to each annual conference since then. MICN
has given him ideas and encouragement and likeminded friends. Brigada
has impacted our pastor and many members of our multicultural
congregation. Keep up the Kingdom work!" This gentleman made big history
in the Brigada world this past week, when, with hopes of encouraging
Brigada onward, he sent a gift of $1,000!!!!!!! Do you realize? ...
That's like... incredible. So thanks to all those who labor and
encourage. And by the way, you'll recall that once we make our financial
goal for the year, we're done. With this gift, the total jumps way up,
and with the two donations we also rec'd this past week (one for $20
from Oklahoma and another for $25 Colorado), the total for 2008 is now
$2097.29. Do you realize... if just 15 other individuals or churches
could step up in the same way, on behalf of the 10,000 participants in
Brigada, we'd be *done* for all of 2008!!! Whoa.
- ANT TO BE ONE OF THOSE DIFFERENCE-MAKERS? -- If so, just click on the
"Sponsor/Donate" page. If you want to use a credit card (and not PayPal), then when it asks for
your PayPal account, just erase the user name and password, then, at the
bottom of the page, where it says "Use any major credit card", just
click there and fill it out like a normal form at any other payment web
form. On the other hand, if you want to use PayPal, just fill in the
info for your account. Or if you prefer, just send an old-fashioned
check payable to Team Expansion to: Team Expansion (Brigada secretary),
11327 Jefferson Trace Blvd., Louisville, KY 40291. (Team Expansion is a
501(c)3 incorporation so for USA citizens, your checks made out to Team
Expansion are tax-deductible.) 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. And thank you in advance for helping.
- LEARN MORE ABOUT REACHING INTO CHINA -- Founded by Hudson Taylor, OMF
International (formerly China Inland Mission and Overseas Missionary
Fellowship) continues a strong presence for Christ throughout East Asia.
Learn more from Elizabeth Lowe, featured speaker, and OMF
representatives, about how God continues to build on these historical
foundations and how you could be involved. Saturday, March 29, 1-4pm at
Houston Chinese Church. Contact
info(at)
omf (dot) org or 303.730.4160 (800.422.5330 US toll free) for more
information. [As a means of preventing spam for our contributors, in the
preceding email address(es), please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with .
and reassemble the address onto one line.]
- OLYMPICS PUT CHINA ON CENTER STAGE -- The Olympic Games in 2008 put
China on center stage. Chinese people everywhere are eagerly
anticipating this national "coming out party." "Beijing and Beyond"
(April 19, 2008, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm, Grace Brethren Church, Long Beach,
CA) is an event that begins in reverent, exuberant worship of the living
God who is sovereign over the events of history. OMF General Director,
Patrick, will be the main speaker. Experienced long-term missionaries
who have served in diverse fields will also share. Workshops will
inspire and inform you so that you will be better equipped to serve as a
sender or a goer. Visit
http://www.omf.org/us
and follow links from the home page or e-mail
swregion(at)
omf (dot) org. [As a means of preventing spam for our contributors, in
the preceding email address(es), please replace (at) with @ and (dot)
with . and reassemble the address onto one line.]
- NEW DVD RESOURCES ONLINE -- Check out Create International's cool new
DVD resources at their online store:
http://www.createinternational.com/store
They have finished the first ever Contextual Home Gathering video for
people from a Thai Buddhist background, complete with indigenous
instruments, dance, symbols and appropriate word choices. Other new
resources include, "Contextualization in Action", a DVD with over ten
workers among Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist people groups, sharing
breakthroughs and case studies in using contextual principles that are
faithful to scripture yet relevant to culture. Also, the "Contextual
Gathering Showreel", which shows six examples of home group gatherings
among Hindi, Kurds, Turks, Indonesian, Urdu, and now Thais. Subtitled in
English, this is a great tool for showing believers who may worship in
different cultural styles, but who are all united in their love for God.
Questions? Write
admin(at)
createinternational(dot)com [As a means of preventing spam for our
contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace (at)
with @ and (dot) with . then reassemble the address onto one line.]
- THE DAMARA PEOPLE: PRECIOUS STONES -- Driving through the town of
Karibib in traditional Damaraland (Namibia, Africa), one cannot help but
notice the precious marble laying everywhere. This is a town that
primarily survives on its marble excavation and marble work.
Traditionally the Damara have been thought of as miners, partly due to
marble excavation such as in Karibib. Even with this work, the town is
still poor. But the most desperate need here is a spiritual need. Pray
for the Damara people. Pray that they will soon hear the message that
they are most precious to God. Pray that they accept this precious
message that will make them truly rich for eternity. To adopt the
Damara people for prayer or for more information, please visit
http://www.forgottenpeoples.info
or email
forgottenpeoples(at)
telkomsa(dot)net [As a means of preventing spam for our contributors, in
the preceding email address(es), please replace (at) with @ and (dot)
with . and reassemble the address onto one line.]
- PARTNERSHIP FOR ASIA CONFERENCE -- OMF International will host
Partnership For Asia Conference 2008 with the theme: "Glorifying God in
Beijing and Beyond" on April 25-26, 2008 (Friday evening and Saturday)
at Peninsula Covenant Church (3560 Farm Hill Blvd., Redwood City, CA
94061). The plenary speakers are Patrick, OMF General Director, and
Tony, OMF Director of China Research. Learn more at:
http://www.omf.org/us
- FREE DOWNLOADABLE EVANGELISTIC FILMS -- Create International's
resource website at:
http://www.indigitech.net
is focused on resourcing Christians around the world with a variety of
evangelistic tools. Aiming to enhance one's personal witness and provide
effective cross-cultural tools in multiple languages, this website tool
box contains more than 800 external links to resources and informative
articles. They now have a searchable database of hundreds of people
groups with links to audio, video, and literature tools for evangelism
and mission mobilization. Create International has just completed a new
section of "FREELY downloadable evangelistic films" for more than 30 of
the largest and least reached people groups! They are available in both
Apple and PC compatible formats which are playable on any desktop,
laptop, or portable media player. Please visit their "Indigitech"
website and get equipped to reach the nations! Questions? Send an email
to
admin(at)
createinternational(dot)com [As a means of preventing spam for our
contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace (at)
with @ and (dot) with . then reassemble the addresses onto one line.]
- INT'L CHRISTIAN SCHOOL IN THAILAND NEEDS DIRECTOR -- Chiang Rai
International Christian School and the current Family Learning Center
are "Serving the Servants" (in the beautiful and tropical Golden
Triangle area of N. Thailand) is looking for a Superintendent to lead
the Family Learning Center through the process of becoming the Chiang
Rai International Christian School. If interested, contact
infocrics(at)
gmail(dot)com for more information. [As a means of preventing spam for
our contributors, in the preceding email address(es), please replace
(at) with @ and (dot) with and reassemble the address onto one line.]
- GROUPLY.COM THREAT NOT A PROBLEM FOR BRIGADA -- A Brigada subscriber
recently asked about Grouply.com, a subscription service (kind of like
plaxo on steroids), because it was reputed to be troublesome for those
subscribed to Googlegroups and others like it. I was glad to be able to
reassure her that Grouply.com only poses a threat for online groups that
reveal membership lists to group members. In Brigada's case, the
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you might want to consider your membership in *other* email lists (if
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history, you've never been spammed nor has the list been compromised.
- THE BACKPAGE: HOW DO WE HELP A CHURCH EMBRACE THE LOST? -- I'm
facing this question now in my own home church, where I'm an elder and
where I serve on the worship team when I'm not traveling. Our
congregation of 750 - 800 people has, in partnership with Team
Expansion, 'adopted' an unreached people group in the Middle East. We
set the next 6 months as a period of mobilization and activation, with
the hopes that during those six months, God would raise up a team of on-
site workers... maybe out of our own church... to go live among the
group to become agents of change there and to live out & portray,
somehow, the message of Christ. So now comes the question: How do we
fire up our church? Say you had 6 months to do so, what would you
recommend? Would you give us your time line... give us your slate of
ideas? If so, please jot down your suggestions and recommendations at
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