NEW ION RESOURCES
How Shall They Hear (PowerPoint,
4,993KB)
Who, What, How (PowerPoint,
283KB)
Why (PowerPoint,
146KB)
ION 2007 Conference Resources
Oralities (PowerPoint,
439KB)
Podcasting Resources
http://www.Story4all.com
Listen to interviews from leaders in the orality movement, samples, and more
relating to reaching oral communicators.
Primary Orality
http://www.oralstrategies.com/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx
Contains an extensive annotated bibliography as well as a full glossary related
to orality and storying. Also available are links to sites for recent literacy
statistics and information, a list of training events and courses offered,
reports of storyers, a list of links to helpful articles introducing orality,
use of stories and worldview. This site provides very good introductory
information. (Note: When reviewed, many of the links provided were broken links,
but it has since been revised.)
http://www.combarriers.com/CommunicationStyles
Here is a one page article introducing the differences in oral and literate
communication styles.
http://www.siutraining.org
Communication Bridges to Oral Cultures Series- Bridges I is 3 day intensive
course to empower grass roots church planters to use oral communication of the
Scriptures to plant churches among un-reached people groups. Training focuses on
Biblical storytelling, dramatic presentations of the parables of Jesus and
cultural adaptations to Scripture in song. This training is conducted by partner
ministries in several parts of the world and is available in 12 languages.
Contact Scriptures in Use for more details.
Secondary Orality
http://www.thejavaclub.org/training.html
"Storying Going Mainstream" is an article found in the
training section of the Java Club site. The article includes an outline of a
number of ways storying is being used to address secondary orality as well as
many links that provide a wealth of information on the cited groups involved in
storying.
http://www.faithcomesbyhearing.com/pastors-support-materials
A Bible Literacy document that contains useful information about Secondary
Orality as it relates to Bible Literacy.
Storying Information
www.chronologicalbiblestorying.com
(See on site information by Jim Slack, Grant Lovejoy, Steve Evans, J/O. Terry
and LaNette Thompson, leaders in this field. Not all resources on this site are
Christian in focus.)
http://www.oralbible.com/video.htm The full three-part video of Grant
Lovejoy from the December 2002 Orality Consultation is available on this new
video download page. Also there see the February 2002 Jim Slack/Steve Evans
videos of the presentation on Chronological Bible Storying and literacy as given
to Table 71 members.
Tell The Story 1-800-866-3621 or write IMB@imb.org.
Model Stories and Story Sets
http://www.thejavaclub.org/houseblend.html
This link to the Java Club site takes you directly to the first level of three
model story sets they have created for use with groups within the United States.
The first level is discipleship, the second a short panorama of the Bible, and
the third on faithful women.
http://echothestory.com/blog/download_stories
A chronological Bible story set and introductory material offering practical
insights and helps on storying. For copyright protection purposes, you must fill
out a form to obtain the model story set designed for use with secondary oral
communicators in the United States.
http://www.faithcomesbyhearing.com/podcast/kidz-audio-bible/
Downloadable audio of stories of the Old Testament are good models for staying
faithful to the text using the vernacular and simple sentence structure.
http://www.contare.org
Storying materials and Bible Story sets for evangelism and discipleship in
simple Spanish are available here. The stories were developed primarily with a
Mayan worldview in mind. All materials are free to download.
Story Preparation
http://gods-story.org/simplythestory.htm
This practical site includes:
* Step-by-step procedure for how to train storytellers including how to
select a story and how to prepare to teach it.
* Step-by-step procedures for how to guide listeners through discussion
questions to observe truths in the story and then apply those truths to their
lives.
http://www.gotell.org/pages/articles/birthStory.html
The featured articles introduce the importance of storying in the family. The
?Jesus? Birth Story by Luke? is a great introduction in how to learn or
interiorize a story.
http://www.gotell.org/pages/stories/mt24.36-44.html
The Lections section of the Go Tell Communications site has an audio telling of
a story, the text of the story in episodes, and audio commentary on the
background with tips for learning and telling the story. Only one lection is
available at this time.
http://www.tomboomershine.org/pages/writings.html
?Story Journey-An Invitation to Gospel Storytelling? is a ten chapter book
exploring different ways of interiorizing a story using 10 New Testament stories
in chronological order. It provides possible life connections to the Biblical
story as well as different ways the stories can be used. It is an excellent
guide to learning stories. There are long sections excerpted from another book
on biblical storytelling. The remainder of the writings section has a number of
academically oriented articles related to narrative, storying, and media.
http://bts.onestory.org/
This page, found on the Storyrunners site, allows you to select any of the books
of the Bible and one or more pre-selected themes to do a search for stories
containing those themes. This is a very helpful tool for choosing stories.
http://www.callofstory.org/en/tales/default.asp
This site on storytelling has some very basic but helpful tips on the actual
telling of stories.
http://www.christianstorytelling.com/past_stories.html
Here are helpful monthly storytelling tips related to a particular story that
date back five months. The stories provided are often examples of a more
imaginative, dramatized form of storytelling.
Training Events
Find schools offering seminars and courses in oral communication. Click here to
see a list of the schools and click here to see seminars and training
opportunities.
http://echothestory.com/training.html
Learn about one to two day interactive workshops designed to develop skills for
communicating through storying.
http://nobs.org/moreacad.html
Description of the NOBS Academy of Biblical Storytelling that provides
certification in two levels, Biblical Storytelling Certificate and Master of
Biblical Storytelling. Each requires a full year of study.
http://www.rev79.org/espanol.htm
?Evangelism Explosion for all Peoples? is a site currently in Spanish dedicated
to discipleship in personal evangelism and contextualized for ethnic people
groups. It is currently being field tested. They can be contacted for training
opportunities.
http://onestory.org/Quest/QuestTimeline.aspx
A timeline of expected training to carry out a One Story Quest project.
Literacy Information and Oral Communication
Literacy in USA http://www.casas.org, search
on literacy
Jonathan Kozal, Illiterate America
Edward E. Gordon and Elaine H.Gordon, Literacy in America: Historic Journey and
Contemporary Solutions
David Barrett, Our World and How to Reach It
Herbert V. Klem,Oral Communication of the Scripture: Insight From African
Oral Art (Obtain from William Cary Library U S Center of World Missions)
Tex Sample, Ministry in an Oral Culture: Living with Will Rogers, Uncle
Remus,Minnie Pearl (Louisville, Kentucky: John Knox Press, 1994)
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2006470
National Center for Educational Statistics, 2003 Adult Literacty research
results for the United States.
Resources for Purchase
http://www.bibletelling.com/About.html
This page provides background information about Bible telling, learning to tell
the stories of the Bible in chronological order. They offer for purchase a
curriculum of 36 Old Testament stories in a 4 book series with audio, which can
be used to teach others to tell the stories of the Bible in a variety of
settings.
http://www.biblestorytelling.org/BibleStoryTelling_Materials.htm
Comprehensive range of training materials on Bible storytelling used as texts
for Theological Education by Extension in Brazil. The material is available in
English, Spanish or Portuguese.
Multiple Language Resources in Media (Some
are straight Scripture; some are storytelling of the Scripture.)
Audio Scriptures
http://www.audioscriptures.org 760-745-8105 / California
The God?s Story Project
http://www.gods-story.org 877-99-Bible / California
Global Recordings Network (here in the USA it is GRN USA, Canada is GRN Canada.)
gospelrecordings.com California
http://www.faithcomesbyhearing.com/store/audio-bible-catalog Hosanna
Ministries Faith Comes By Hearing 800-545-6552 / New Mexico. Faith Comes by
Hearing offers a variety of digital resources with dramatized audio Scriptures
or Scripture portions.
Jesus Film http://www.ccci.org / Florida
SPARK, effectively using media resources and case studies using media and oral
strategies, 1-800-314-4227:
http://www.vernacularmedia.org
Vernacular Media Services (arm of SIL, division of Wycliffe) 704- 843-6567 /
North Carolina
Chronological Storytelling Tools & Information In Media and Print
New Tribes Missions www.ntm.org Firm Foundations training chronological teaching
of Bible 800-321-5375 Eetaow and Now We See Clearly
Bill Perry ESL ?friendly?, obtain from http://www.multilanguagemedia.com
Jack Day Chronological Bible Storytelling
http://www.biblestorytelling.org
or jackday@pox.com
Scriptures In Use The Ancient Path
http://www.siutraining.org (highly successful training of grass roots
church planters)
Stranger on the Road to Emmaus
http://www.GoodSeed.com
The Way of Righteousness
info@gods-story.org (e-mail)
LaNette W. Thompson Storying Through the Bible
NewWway.org web sites give CBS info including Laussane report on ?Making
Disciples of Oral Learner?
BBibliography
http://echothestory.com/downloads/StoryResources.pdfa>
This site offers a bibliography on storying resources.