I received this today. It should be of great interest to every Christian who understands the Great Commission is for us all, and the gospel for every person.

CALL MADE TO ESTABLISH CHURCH IN EVERY U.S. COUNTY
by T. Pierce Brown

Christian friend: EXCITING NEWS!

The Sycamore Church of Christ in Cookeville, TN is planning to use the ONE NATION UNDER GOD program to encourage congregations and individual Christians throughout the nation to help establish a congregation of the Lord's church in every county in the USA that does not now have one. There are almost 700 of them.

If this is exciting to you and you would like to assist in this effort, you may do so by simply spreading the news to all your contacts, by enlisting your congregation in participating in some way, by helping finding key men who will spread the word and/or help raise money to help fund the effort, or many other ways.

If you are willing to try to help in ANY way, and want us to send you by mail a brochure that will give more details of the initial plans, send your address, phone number, and what you think you are willing to do to help.

If you need more information about me or the program, you might want to check our website at www.etoughtalk/sycamore/, www.etoughtalk.com, or www.oldpaths.com to see more of my autobiography and thousands of articles I have written.

--T. Pierce Brown
1068 Mitchell Ave.
Cookeville, TN
(931-528-3600)

One of the items I didn't mention in the report about Oak Hills's changes were its decision to establish a multiple campuses around San Antonio. The Christian Standard of the Christian Church devotes the 1 June 03 issue to "Multisite Ministries," with glowing approval and multiple justifications.

Some may find good reasons for it, but one "leadership" over many places smells hierarchical to me.

In the April 2003 issue of eConnections, Abilene Christian University announced it has invited an evangelical to teach in its annual summer missions seminar.

We are bringing in a Missions specialist, Gary Corwin, Associate Editor of the Evangelical Missions Quarterly. He will be teaching on three aspects of leadership development: The Christ of Leadership Development, The Curricula of Leadership Development and the Challenges of Leadership Development.

While the university has had (and perhaps still does) evangelicals teaching in their Bible department before, they now proudly announce the inclusion, evidently for the first time, of a major evangelical figure in the missions seminar.

We await further announcements of evangelical presence in their lectureship. Perhaps even a future university president. If not, why not?

Our family will travel to the U.S. October 2nd for our regularly scheduled trip, returning November 17. We ask your prayers for a safe and uneventful trip, as well as for getting our itinerary set up soon. We're still working on that one.

This time around we'll be traveling to Abilene, Texas, to visit the Baker Heights church, which has supported us since 1984. Last trip we visited the Mt. Vernon church in Park City, Ken., also a long-time supporter.

Since these two churches are the longest from our main base in Arkansas and Mississippi, we swap out visits every other trip.

Other churches where we will report are these:

Center Hill, Paragould, Ark. (sponsor)
Iuka, Miss.
Acton, Tenn.
Lemalsamac, Newbern, Tenn.
Somers Ave., North Little Rock, Ark.

Please send up a special prayer of thanksgiving and request for blessing for these wonderful people. They make it possible for us to do as much as we do.

If you live in the U.S., we hope to be able to visit or call you as well. Please keep in touch.

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