Facilitating the Mission

In part two of our focus on Talking Bibles, Paul continues telling fascinating stories of people taking the gospel to places in India and East Africa where American missionaries don't have access. He also discusses how gathering data reshapes strategy and future goals. The impact this technology is having on the power of the gospel to change lives is inspiring. 

Other topics mentioned by Paul:

Mission celebration of Edinburgh 1910

Talking Bibles International

Talking Bibles Podcast Part One

This is the first part of an interview with Paul Hoekstra of Talking Bibles. Paul was born on the mission field and has given his life to making the Word of God available to non-readers. He is a facsinating story teller. You won't want to miss a minute of this interview.

The Support Raising Podcast Series has been very popular. In the part three, we talk about funding furloughs and returning from the field. The idea is to plan for furloughs and your final return from the field by making it a part of regular month-to-month budgeting and fund-raising over the course of time rather than at the last minute when the need suddenly arises. People are very willing to partner with diligent planning, while a lack of planning can put a strain on relationships.

Here are links to part one and part two of this series.

Jeff also refers to the GO Fund in this episode. Learn more here.

The key component of missionaries going to and staying on the mission fireld is raising support. It's also one of the biggest challenges for the missionary, and, frankly, the missionary's sending church, to have a healthy perspective about.

In Part Two of this series about raising support, Jeff and Bryon talk through the having a healthy and theologically balanced view of raising support for Great Commission endeavors. 

Here are some of the items mentioned in this podcast:

»5 Reasons You Should Become a Financial Partner with a Missionary.

»Participation Consummation.

»Support Through Tethers of Connection.

»Missionary Support and Relational Tethers of Connection.

»What is the Result of Missionary Support?.

Raising support is the toughest part about being a ministry. This task challenges the missionary on so many fronts. But it has to be done.

In this podcast, Jeff and Bryon talk through the challenges that come with raising support from both theological and practical angles. 

Here are some of the items mentioned in this podcast:

»Jeff's blog post about partnering financially with missionaries.

»The Orality series.

»Interview with Angie Velasco.

In this podcast we wrap an interview with missionary to Mexico, Angelina Velasco. She has been a spectacularly engaging and wise guest. This episode will prove to be a tremendously eye-opening resource for missionaries preparing to go to the field.

Here are a few more of the resources Angelina shared with us:

Navigators personal disciplines for spiritual growth

Story Runners

Oral Bible School

Stories are not just for Kids by Christine Dillon

Storying the Scriptures

Orality Part One

Orality Part Two

Orality Part Three

Orality Part Four

We have missionary Angelina Velasco as a guest for this and our next podcast about the Orality Method of teaching God's Word on the mission field. Angelina opens telling us about the trials and tribulations of her first year on the mission field. The challenges that come with learning one's way around doing min istry in a new culture with people you don't really know that well is one of God's ways of steering a new missionary toward the ministry the missionary is best designed to do. Angelina's freshman year on the field is a familiar story. We learn that she navigated the early years well and is flourishing on the mission field teaching ladies to understand the stories of the Bible employing the Orality Method.

Here is a resource mentioned by Angelina in this podcast:

Story Runners

We're pleased to still have Trip Kimball with us in this second half of our interview with him. In the first part of this interview, we learned that a subset of the Orality movement is training nationals on the mission field to tell the story of the Bible. Trip and Jeff Jackson work through a few more examples of what this kind of traininglook slike and why its important.

Here are a few more references and links mentioned in this podcast. Make sure you refer to the first half of this interview to check out other great resources.

ST4T Storying

International Orality Network

Simply the Story

Share the Story

Storying the Scriptures

Trip Kimball's Website

A subset of the Orality movement is training nationals on the mission field to tell the story of the Bible. In this episode of Facilitating the Mission, veteran pastor and missionary Trip Kimball explains methods he used to train pastors and leaders on the mission field in the Philippines to tell and retell the stories of the Bible so they could be understood in local dialects among audio learners. 

Here are the resources Trip mentioned in the podcast:

Intensive Care Ministries

Emmaus Road International

Poimen Ministries

Wycliff SIL Translators Workshop

Murrieta Bible College

Also, here's where you can lean more about Trip's book The Mystery of the Gospel Unraveling God's Story.

Seventy percent of the planet is functionally illiterate.

Faith comes through hearing... if we expect people top come to faith through reading only, we've just blocked 70% of the world from coming to Christ.

Orality movement has motivated Bible translators to make audio versions in every known language. Lets get God's word into audio form. 

Here are the resources Jeff mentioned in the podcast:

Wycliffe Bible Translators

Ethnos 360 (Formerly New Tribes)

Pioneer Bible Translators

Faith Comes by Hearing

Talking Bibles International