Friday, February 29, 2008
Cool OneStory video
Footage of a OneStory team of intrepid ladies storying in the African bush is up now for viewing on the IMB GoWestAfrica.org site.
If you want to see what a team of OneStory trained people do on the field, click on the flash viewer window below.
These brave young women have made a considerable cross-cultural investment to bring the story of God to some Muslim people in West Africa. It is a stirring and encouraging inside look. Don't miss the chance to be a "fly on the wall" for a few minutes right now!
If you want to see what a team of OneStory trained people do on the field, click on the flash viewer window below.
These brave young women have made a considerable cross-cultural investment to bring the story of God to some Muslim people in West Africa. It is a stirring and encouraging inside look. Don't miss the chance to be a "fly on the wall" for a few minutes right now!
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Training them up!
As a father, one of the things that has really helped me in 'reaching' and discipling my kids has been the use of stories. Quite often it is through casual conversation. In areas of discipline, instead of launching into a "lecture", I have sometimes paused and brought in a Bible, or spur-of-the-moment, story to get (hopefully) a lasting point across.
This week I came across this cool article on the same theme. It is written by Sheila Carroll, with Living Books Curriculum, which provides a Charlotte Mason curriculum for the 21st Century, proceeds of which support a sister non-profit organisation called Education in a Box, providing "living books" and teacher training to educators in developing nations.
Sheila's brief article will be of encouragement to anyone ministering to, or parents of, children, but also has something for everyone in the whole gamut of orality and literacy.
This week I came across this cool article on the same theme. It is written by Sheila Carroll, with Living Books Curriculum, which provides a Charlotte Mason curriculum for the 21st Century, proceeds of which support a sister non-profit organisation called Education in a Box, providing "living books" and teacher training to educators in developing nations.
Sheila's brief article will be of encouragement to anyone ministering to, or parents of, children, but also has something for everyone in the whole gamut of orality and literacy.
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Storying and church multiplication
One of the things that impresses me most as a church planter, after many years in a variety of fields and mission contexts, is the power of storying to multiply churches among the unreached. In story4all we not only believe storying is the most effective way of reaching oral peoples, but it is also the most effective way to see congregations multiply!
I was recently reading a story from The God's Story Project in India about how one man, trained in how to tell "interesting, 'pure', Bible stories, nothing added, nothing left out, and how to lead inductive Bible study 'oral style'", had, in nine months, by applying the 2 Timothy 2:2 principle, seen 5 generations of people discipled in Jesus!! From son (the man trained) to great, great, great grandsons. Read the full story here!
I was recently reading a story from The God's Story Project in India about how one man, trained in how to tell "interesting, 'pure', Bible stories, nothing added, nothing left out, and how to lead inductive Bible study 'oral style'", had, in nine months, by applying the 2 Timothy 2:2 principle, seen 5 generations of people discipled in Jesus!! From son (the man trained) to great, great, great grandsons. Read the full story here!