Bible Storying among Oral Cultures

Over 70 percent of the world's least reached people are part of oral cultures, groups that use stories, songs and other forms of narrative to communicate their most significant messages. Because these people either cannot or choose not to read and write, we meet them where they are and communicate in a form they can embrace and pass on to others.   Bible Storying among Oral Cultures is a mission to compile a set of Bible stories designed to communicate the gospel orally to those who have never heard it.  It is a two year adventure in pioneering the sharing of the gospel to those who’ve never had the bible in their own language.

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2011 Placement Opportunities will be posted October 1!

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What would I do? What does a typical day look like? 

  • You will be a part of a two- person team.
  • You and your partner will live among an unreached people group and learn its culture, language and worldview.
  • Your job is to make friends! You may be the first to bring the Word of God to this people group in their own language.
  • You will use a cutting-edge cross cultural communications strategy called Chronological Bible Storying to give the people an oral storytelling panorama of the Bible that can easily spread throughout the people group.
  • You will help your national friends become storytellers to their own people in their own language.
  • You will work with your storytellers and with translation experts, accurately crafting 5 to 40 stories from the Bible into the heart language of the people. You will be a miniature recording studio putting the stories on CD, cassette and radio.
  • You will be trained and mentored throughout your two-year project so that you can do it! Your goal will be to help initiate the beginnings of an indigenous church planting movement.

What we’re looking for in Bible Storying among Oral Cultures volunteers:

  • Adventurous and flexible
  • Media background
  • Multi-faceted individuals that can integrate media, relationship building, language learning and training