STORY4ALL LAUNCHES FOCUS ON REACHING THE NON-LITERATE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
1 July 2006

STORY4ALL LAUNCHES FOCUS ON REACHING THE NON-LITERATE
PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS NEEDS OF THE WORLD’S ORAL LEARNERS

A seminary trained Indian pastor spends several years and much effort to see one small church planted in his home area. After receiving training in how to communicate the Gospel through Bible storytelling he saw 75 churches planted in six years with nearly 1500 people coming to Jesus.

In 25 years missionaries saw 25 people come to faith among a tribe of people living in central Nigeria. Then some young believers from this group set the Gospel story to local musical chants, and spread the good news in that way. In a short time 250,000 people from their tribe were worshipping followers of Jesus.

What made the difference? “Storytelling,” says Bryan Thompson, creator of the new story4all website and podcast, launched this week at http://story4all.com

“The message Jesus delivered was not only brought by Him wearing our skin but in a style best understood by His audience and in a language of the heart. Jesus was never without a story when He spoke.” said Thompson.

“story4all is aimed at turning our focus to the ‘oral two-thirds’ of the world who can't, don't or won't read,“ he stated. The new site provides a forum for resources, discussion, interviews and information from around the world to show how Bible storytelling can make disciples of the world's 4 billion oral learners.

This modern approach to an age old strategy addresses the need to redefine missionary and church planting strategies worldwide in light of the fact that nearly two thirds of the earth's population cannot understand nor receive the Good News of salvation in Jesus Christ as it is traditionally presented according to Thompson.

At present there are currently no other podcasts focused on this type of oral strategy to bring the Gospel to the non-literate.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Bryan Thompson
United Kingdom +44 (0)77 12848664
http://www.story4all.com


NOTES TO EDITORS:

1. story4all is based in Ireland and is part of a growing network of believers throughout the world committed to bringing the Story of God to all peoples…orally.
2. As a faith initiative, donations to continue this growing ministry can be accepted through a paypal link at story4all.com
3. The story4all podcast is automatically distributed via RSS feed to which users can subscribe for free in iTunes:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=15410774&s=143441

Non-iTunes users can cut and paste the following URL into their "podcatching" software to subscribe to the feed: http://story4all.libsyn.com/rss

The podcasts will play directly within iTunes or an Internet browser with no additional software required and on either PC or Mac.