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Today's show: End of an era May 2006 until August 2018 story4all is transitioning Bryan announces his closing of story4all as it is currently known. This has been a difficult decision, but due to the role change for his family, Bryan records his last show today, as he has discovered it will not be possible to maintain a show of quality in his future mobile and global role with Simply the Story and which involves his being without a permanent home and office. Our initial 2006 goal of informing, mobilising and resourcing the Body of Christ into using oral communication as a ministry tool, and in particular, storytelling with discussion, has been reached. Please keep an eye on this page and on the following links for further announcement towards a transition of the podcast in the future: Twitter Facebook story4all page  

Today's show: Two Czech teens tell how story has impacted their lives Trained in STS and now training others Trained in Silesia and going nationwide and further afield In the Czech Republic this week Bryan interviews two young people he trained last year in storytelling skills and hears how things have been going ever since. From Czech Republic to Switzerland teaching others how to tell God’s Story. Links ... Simply the Story ... Wycliffe Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback!   We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: The way you tell it is interpretive Emphasising orality for a reason ... Is story discussion like "Chinese whispers"? As part of our Classic Shows on story4all and as something of a throwback to our Summer Sessions habit we are going back in time to hear Grant Lovejoy teach on and introduce others to Orality. Links ... This talk was first given in 2007 in the Int'l Orality Network conference ... Don't miss joining the ION gathering in September! Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: Teaching people something without telling them what! Experience your learning Communicating without a putdown As part of our Classic Shows on story4all and as something of a throwback to our Summer Sessions habit we are going back in time to hear Grant Lovejoy teach on and introduce others to Orality. Links ... This talk was first given in 2007 in the Int'l Orality Network conference ... Don't miss joining the ION gathering in September! Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: Grant Lovejoy on orality Understanding your audience without demeaning them How far is the reach of orality in today's world? As part of our Classic Shows on story4all and as something of a throwback to our Summer Sessions habit we are going back in time to hear Grant Lovejoy teach on and introduce others to Orality. Links ... This talk was first given in 2007 in the Int'l Orality Network conference ... Don't miss joining the ION gathering in September!   Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: a very long poem! lion hunters are not stupid how the lack of a term can be a negative problem As part of our Classic Shows on story4all and as something of a throwback to our Summer Sessions habit we are going back in time to hear Grant Lovejoy teach on and introduce others to Orality. Links ... This talk was first given in 2007 in the Int'l Orality Network conference ... Don't miss joining the ION gathering in September! Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: A classic show Grant Lovejoy teaches on orality A wide and paced introduction to this important subject As part of our Classic Shows on story4all and as something of a throwback to our Summer Sessions habit we are going back in time to hear Grant Lovejoy teach on and introduce others to Orality. Links ... This talk was first given in 2007 in the Int'l Orality Network conference ... Don't miss joining the ION gathering in September! Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: An apology ION conference is coming up! An insightful article by Grant Lovejoy With the International Orality Network conference coming up in September (17-19) in Orlando in Florida, time is running out to get that early bird discount on your registration. Follow the link below to snap up that discount today! Grant Lovejoy, director of Orality Strategies in the Int'l Mission Board, wrote a great article on the IMB web site and we share that today. Links ... ION conference registration ... IMB site ... Grant's article Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: Stories with children, youth and in home groups How a pastor changed the way he asked questions STS instructor gives some stories about storytelling Bryan catches up with Carolyn Bailey, who has been on the podcast before. She led the Greystones STS workshop in Ireland last week and spent some time telling Bryan about it and also telling how she has used story in her home church to great effect. Links ... STS ... Upcoming training events ... Beaverton workshop details Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: A pastor discovers the power of story to heal Life changing stories of the use of Bible storytelling Giving a tip by telling a story! Bryan, currently running a storytelling workshop in England, interviews one of the visiting instructors about his discovery and use of storytelling and how God is changing lives through it.  Links ... STS ... A workshop in Oregon this autumn Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: A story4all classics show Dorothy Miller shares some 'nuggets' The beginnings of a training movement In another trip back in time, we travel to an episode in our story4all classics series which is an interview with Dorothy Miller, the founder of Simply the Story, describing how God was beginning to use this fledgling ministry powerfully in the nations. Links ... STS training ... Hosting an STS Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: What are the dangers of separating children off during church? How do we engage children as we minister? How children are learning how to minister with story too Bryan interviews, Andrea, the Executive Director of The God's Story Project and Simply the Story, about the phenomenon we are seeing of children being impacted by story ministry in STS training events and also how children are stepping up to be storytellers too! Links ... Simply the Story training opportunities ... Jon Melin's By Design Visuals (flannelgraphs) Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: A sequel to the story in last week's show! A lamini (female priest) and others meet Christ Modern-day thanka ministry Bryan continues in a sequel show from the archives about a marvellous story following on from last week's show.  Some links to other ministries using thankas in ministry: Indigenous Jesus - modern-day thanka ministry use An artist's escape from the Wheel of Life The Jesus Question - Jesus' life in a thanka Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: A story4all classic show Remarkable fruitful ministry through stories and art in Asia How people are believing just by seeing the story art Bryan, in this episode from our archives, takes us back in time to a marvellous series of testimonies as Roger in Asia reaches out to local Buddhist people through one of their art forms ... Thankas. Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: A Scottish professional storyteller tells her story The passion to tell God’s story How God’s story is a different (powerful) kind of storytelling! Bryan on location in Wales is joined this week by a Scottish friend and colleague to help train others in Bible storytelling. We hear about her story and journey into using Simply the Story to share God’s Word and what happens when she does that. Links ... STS Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: Coaching stories Helping storytellers grow in skills When God surprises us with works of grace Bryan tells some stories about how coaching in the training events he runs have turned out to be moments of not only gaining storytelling skills, but also moments when God surprises us with His touch and healing. Links ... STS Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: Pastors and evangelists had given up on him as a lost cause His own son gets storytelling training Tells him a story over the phone and leads him to Christ Lucky Ademola is man who fasted, prayed and witnessed to his family for years and especially to his father who had endless reasons why he was better than other Christians and he did not need to go to church. Lucky comes across Simply the Story and gets trained. Within a few months he has an unbelievable and life-changing phone call with his Dad. All on this week’s show. Links ... STS Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: Jesus and the woman of Samaria Doing the unexpected and going against cultural norms And what happened as a result Bryan, out on assignment with his wife leading storytelling training, speaks today about some fun thoughts that came out this past week in a conversation about the Jesus and the Woman at the Well story. How the prompt or decision of Jesus to several times do what was not expected of Him led to a move of God in not just one woman, but a whole group of people in her city. Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: Stories from Nepal, India, Nigeria and S Sudan Brickmakers, Muslims, Hindus hearing the Story  ... And what happens as a result Bryan shares several stories from Asia and Africa in various contexts where storytelling occurred and how people responded to the story, often in surprising ways. Links ... The God's Story Project ... Simply the Story ... Megavoice Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: A story4all classic Dorothy Miller muses on the Martha & Mary story Stories from around the world on the power of story As a follow-up to our recent "classic story4all" shows on the Martha & Mary story Dorothy Miller shares some thoughts on the power of that story, why stories are powerful, how the Martha & Mary story has been used in the nations and then tells stories about storytelling around the world. A story4all classic show.  Links ... Simply the Story Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: When the despised lower class are able to train the higher A young woman from Finland seeing God transform lives A story of grace and mercy in the Ecuadorian jungle Dan McDonough interviews Hanna Eriksson from Finland who has been ministering among an indigenous Indian tribe in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador. Hanna tells a wonderful story of God turning things on their head culturally and socially as He impacts these Kichwa Indians in the jungle. Links ... Simply the Story ... The God's Story Project ... MegaVoice Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: USA literacy situation And not just there What are we going to do about it? Looking at some recent statistics that have been released about reading in the USA have provoked Bryan to look again at this phenomenon - that our world is increasingly a non-reader environment. Bryan shares these interesting new angles and takes on readers (or the lack of them!) and then discusses what must be our consideration as we seek to obey the Great Commission. Links ... National Assessment of Adult Literacy ... Surprising reading facts (& Infographic) Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: From our classic story series Dorothy Miller tells Martha & Mary from Luke 10 Dorothy Miller teaching the mechanics of the story Bryan and Dorothy Miller share in exploring a Bible story from Luke 10 and through it we discover some mechanics behind a story presentation. Links ... Simply the Story Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: Impacting nations through the simply told accurate story Convicted about "helping God" tell His story Brickmakers changed by story Continuing our story4all "Classics" series on Early Days of The God's Story Project, Dorothy Miller tells some super stories about story impacting lives in Asia. Links ... The God's Story Project Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: A story4all classic from 2007 Dorothy Miller talks about a new storytelling course How this course helped people go deeper in the Word In the second of our story4all classics series, Bryan takes us back to 2007 when he talks with Dorothy Miller, founder and then leader of The God Story Project, and we learn about some of the exciting beginnings of a new storytelling course that would impact over 80 nations in the first two years.  Links ... The God's Story Project ... Audio players packed with goodies ... Simply the Story Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: The woman who couldn't wait to tell stories A lonely and isolated couple find a family The unlikely ones whom God chooses Just back from a Simply the Story training in Greenisland, outside of Belfast in the UK, Bryan tells some stories of lives transformed by the Bible stories and training experience. Links ... STS ... What is STS? ... Training events coming up Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: Not working orally with oral peoples breeds cultural Christianity You could not be a rabbi unless you had memorised the Torah For oral peoples literacy is not an option By request and as part of our series on classic story4all shows we are looking back to 2006 to a series of three shows on literacy, orality, and culture.  Professor Jim Slack, Global Evangelism and Church Growth Consultant and Researcher, with 25 years on the mission field experiences and years of research and study on literacy and orality, concludes his talk on Cultural Christianity this week. Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!

Today's show: Reaching people in the language they cry in, love in and work in Oral people learn by stories If we do not take orality seriously we cannot take the Great Commission seriously By request and as part of our series on classic story4all shows we are looking back to 2006 to a series of three shows on literacy, orality, and culture.  Continuing this week with the second part of a talk by Professor Jim Slack, a Global Evangelism and Church Growth Consultant and Researcher, with 25 years on the mission field experiences and years of research and study on literacy and orality. Follow us on Twitter ~ Review us in iTunes ~ Give us your feedback! We hope you enjoy the show. Click on the (direct download) link immediately below to start hearing this show NOW!