OneStory Overview
Two huge barriers are keeping the unreached of our world-more than 1 billion people-from hearing the gospel. There are 4,400 people groups for which there is either no Scripture or only fragments. Bible translators believe that, using traditional methods, it will take at least 150 years of translation work to produce the Bible for these people groups. The second barrier is that even when this huge translation task is accomplished, more than 70 percent of these people can't read. They are oral learners, communicating through audible stories, songs, proverbs, parables, poetry and history.
This staggering reality has been used by God to grab the attention of five major missions agencies: Campus Crusade for Christ, the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Wycliffe International , YWAM (Youth With A Mission), and TWR (Trans World Radio). These agencies have launched a partnership known as OneStory. OneStory desires to bring God's Word to every unreached people group through Bible stories conveyed by word of mouth. This will lay the groundwork for church-planting movements.
Sequentially arranged Bible stories will be systematically translated, checked and recorded. As these oral Bible stories disseminate among a people group, God's Word will travel unhindered by either closed borders, security threats of printed materials, prison bars, or other barriers. This pattern ignited the early church so that within 40 years, there was a church in almost every major city of the Roman Empire before much of the New Testament was widely available!
Churches are the key to the success of this strategy. OneStory envisions local churches becoming engaged advocates for particular people groups. Church involvement may include prayer, funding, sending members to work on storying projects, and sending short-term teams to use audio recordings of stories in evangelism and church-planting outreaches. Consider downloading the promotional flier provided below and having it reproduced for your church's missions leaders. If just 1 percent of churches respond by becoming partners, then every remaining unreached people group can have the gospel in their heart language by 2025.
Global Frontier Missions is currently partnered with OneStory and doing everything they can to see an oral Bible provided for all of the unreached people groups in Oaxaca, Mexico. Click here to find out more about our two-year church planting and storytelling missions opportunities.
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