StoryRunners
StoryRunners is a group using some innovative (ancient actually) means to move the gospel ahead in distant places. The plan is to use the power of spoken Bible stories to convey the gospel to people for whom stories are a foundational part of their lives. This storying approach uses heart language and common learning style to provide them with an oral set of the Scriptures. Jesus never wrote anything - he simply conveyed it through stories and practice.
Why this method? - according to their stats the current situation looks like this:
- 6,000 people groups totaling
- 3 billion people who have not heard His message.
- 4.5 billion of the world’s population can’t or won’t read.
- 1 billion people have no Scripture and
- millions of people do not have a written language of their own
In partnership with churches and mission agencies, StoryRunners trains teams of near-culture believers to live and work among unreached people groups so that they can:
- lay a foundation for the beginnings of an oral Bible,
- accelerate the spread of the gospel and
- sow the seeds of church planting movements (I really like this point).
2 comments:
"Movements Everywhere" implies movements in every language and culture. StoryRunners actually takes this implication seriously.
The Bible translators will take over 100 more years to finish all the needed Bible translations. Meanwhile, we've got to do something, and Bible storying is the best way I know of to get the job done.
I am biased because I work with StoryRunners, but StoryRunners rocks!
-Rob Hughes (email me at myfirstname.mylastname@ccci.org)
StoryRunners is one of the leading movers and shakers in the orality movement that is transforming missions in the post-literate era. Not content to merely raise awareness by, for example, co-founding ION (International Orality Network) they press on to engagement of unreached people groups who have never experienced indigenous church planting.
When the Great Commission is finally fulfilled, it will be - in part - because the Church at large grabbed onto the values at StoryRunners' core.
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