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The Importance of Voice
"As they waited, they were interviewed by American television news journalists. My husband and I went from channel to channel, until we began hearing the same phrases repeated, to capture image and voice..."
Three Worlds Collide: An Example of Lifestyle Storying
"Marcella* and I walked outside of the village and across the road and then back so we could get a good view of all the people as they lined up to pray. It was sad to see our friends going through the rituals of standing, bowing, kneeling and repeating meaningless words."
OneStory Workers Plunge Into Village Life
Krystal steps out of her hut, but there's no morning paper on her doorstep to tell her what's going on outside of this dusty sub-Saharan village. Most of the people here couldn't read it anyway. That's precisely why she and her teammates came to live this life in West Africa as part of the OneStory project.
Making the Story Meaningful: Relational Bible Storying and Scripture Use in Oral Muslim Contexts, pt. 2
Jack Colgate observes that even in oral Muslim cultures, the written Scriptures are respected. For that reason, he suggests that a combination of oral storying and the reading of the printed Scriptures may be more meaningful to Muslims than a purely oral approach.
Story and Song in Kpele-Dafo: An Innovative Church Planting Model Among an Oral Culture of Togo
As the night sky dims and the fire flares, the words of a storyteller are gripping as the tribe hangs on every word. Learn how story and song affect the oral culture of Togo as Jim and Carla Bowman, founders of Scriptures in Use, explain.
Worldview of the Aukaners of Suriname and French Guyana
The Aukaners live along the rivers in the jungles of Suriname. Descended from enslaved Africans who escaped from plantations hundreds of years go, Aukaners follow a mixture of African traditional religions and South American animism. This is a background document describing certain aspects of the Aukaners' worldview.
The Difference in Learning the Bible and Learning 'about' the Bible
What would possess a group of 40 Deaf believers to gather into a small, cramped apartment in a city in Transylvania, Romania, for 6 hours on Sunday afternoon, after already having "been to church" earlier that same morning? It has to do with an experience they had to learn scripture, instead of learning about scripture.
African Proverbs: Stepping Stones within Oral Cultures
In this article, Jay Moon surveys briefly how African proverbs have been regarded and used to minister in oral cultures. Instead of treating proverbs as simply a tool to be used, people should view proverbs as a deep symbol within culture that reveals the worldview of the people.
Prayer Request from OneStory Workers
Missionaries Tara and Seng request prayer for their OneStory project among the Sokoto Fulani people.
Pat Ozment's Training for Rural Trainers
Follow the Ozments, IMB Masters program missionaries, as they spend a weekend teaching believers in Northern Ghana who to share the Gospel. Pat uses a method known as Training for Rural Trainers to teach church members in a small village how to tell Bible stories orally.
Beulah Baptist Partnering in West Africa
Beulah Baptist Church of Hopkins, SC tells their experience of bringing the Gospel to the Bambara of Mali as a Partnering Church. Beulah sends multiple teams a year to this area and has already planted a church where there was none before.
