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Dear friends and colleagues: In our mission structures and strategies, we’ve heard exciting things about the strategic work of Bible storying (orality).  Entire villages and towns have been transformed from faithless to the faithful because of the simple but profound work of teaching scripture through the spoken word.  Bible Storying can be used strategically and [...]

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Entire villages and towns have been transformed from faithless to the faithful because of the simple but profound work of teaching scripture through the spoken word.  Bible Storying can be used strategically and successfully in any ministry from local/national outreach to international work; whether at the local coffee shop or with a group of students [...]

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Experience 5 days of Bible storying in beautiful Orlando, Florida with Campus Crusade for Christ and then you’ll be able to train others. This trainers training Feb 27 – Mar 2 is for individuals, churches, and mission agencies. The cost for on-site lodging, meals, materials, and airport ground transfers is $399 per person.  For details [...]

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The use of story and oral methods is often the missing piece to help round out your mission toolbox. Take part in an International Orality Network Conference, September 12-15, 2011, at Ridgecrest near Asheville, NC, to gain insights, ideas and tools to use story and orality in your ministry. Practical sessions will be offered for [...]

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Here’s another specialized missions search engine by Phronema.Org. This one is for resources related to the Orality Movement. So if you search for something like “water stories” you will actually get a meaningful result from a missions perspective. There are also search engines for Missions Research, Holistic Ministry, Cybermissions and Mobile Ministry. Its free and [...]

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It’s happening in Sunny Florida! Campus Crusade for Christ will make sure, before you’re done, that you can train others. This trainers training October 10 – 14, 2011 is for individuals, churches, and mission agencies.  The workshop begins at 6pm on Monday and ends at noon on Friday.  The cost for on-site lodging, meals, materials, [...]

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A new book, “Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts,” prepared for the 2010 Lausanne meeting in Cape Town, SA on Oct. 17-25, has gone to the printers! To download a portion of the book, go to: http://www.heartstories.info The excerpts have been received very well and organizations are asking for training just after reading a couple [...]

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The early church spread God’s Word quickly despite political persecution and cultural resistance simply by telling everyone stories from the Bible! Experience 5 days of Bible storying in beautiful Orlando, Florida with Campus Crusade for Christ and then you’ll be able to train others. This trainers’ training is May 10 – 14, 2010 and is [...]

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Hearts Burning: There is a natural tendency among those who know their Bible well to read the narrative safe in the knowledge of how the story ends. Here’s a consultation that acts as a place where existing and emerging best practices of Scripture Engagement can be discovered, shared and reflected upon. Some 150 – 200 [...]

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Here’s the perfect way to get started with biblical storytelling. Two great DVD workshops for only $10 each. Paul & Teresa have trained more than fifty biblical storytellers in Asia. Now they share their insights in these professionally produced DVDs, “Telling God’s Stories,” and “Multiplying Storytellers.” Each 55 minutes long, these DVDs are chocked full [...]

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Check out… http://ion2008.ning.com/ for the skinny on Bible storytelling. They have an upcoming conference, Sept. 9-12th, but to learn about that, you’ll have to have a Facebook account and view the info at http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=56117187960 [What do you think about promoting an event exclusively on Facebook? Just click “Comment” below:

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Storytelling has been around long before Jesus walked through the gates of Jerusalem. It was just that… in 2008… the rest of the church seemed to pick up on the fact that storytelling (“Orality”) made sense in and of itself — as a tool for evangelism.

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Have you been noticing lately just how much attention *storytelling* is receiving? We’ve always known that Jesus enjoyed teaching through stories or parables. As a kid, we found that stories were the stuff we remembered, not lectures. So in some ways, “storying” isn’t new at all. But think about it — there have probably been [...]

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