OneStory Quest: Global Frontier Missions

OneStory Quest Overview: Global Frontier Missions

It's been 2000 years since Jesus walked the earth. But millions of people still haven't heard the story.

What would you give for them to get the Good News?

How about two years?

OneStory Quest gives you just that opportunity.

Studies suggest that over 70% of the world's population is not functionally literate. The percentage is even higher for people groups not yet reached with the Gospel. This research indicates that most of the people in the world who have not heard the Gospel are oral communicators - they prefer to learn through songs, drama, and orally told stories.

This presents a challenge. How can the unreached be reached if they do not learn by reading? One of the answers is an innovative oral approach called Chronological Bible Storying.

A new partnership, OneStory, is providing new strategies and resources that will enable the Church to use Bible storying to finish the task of reaching the remaining unreached people groups. OneStory is a partnership between the International Mission Board (IMB), Youth With A Mission (YWAM), Wycliffe and The Seed Company, Trans World Radio and Campus Crusade for Christ. These organizations have come together to create a new two-year internship called OneStory Quest.

OneStory Quest is designed for single adults and couples without dependent children. Interns in this program spend two years in interactive engagement with a people group helping to provide a set of oral Bible stories that will reach their hearts and minds. For oral communicators, a set of memorized oral Bible stories serves as an Oral Bible. It becomes a permanent possession that can be used at any time, anywhere. It's an evangelistic tool that can reach multitudes!

As an OneStory Quest participant you'll receive training in worldview research and Bible storying. You'll travel to a people group halfway around the world, explore their lifestyle and get to know them personally. You'll work alongside mother-tongue storyers to begin putting together a story set that will become their Oral Bible. Depending on the storytelling tradition of the people group, the stories may be told, sung or danced.

A strong support system will be available to you every step of the way. Coaches and consultants will be on call. There will also be times of rest and spiritual refreshment.

What's the outcome? You'll have built relationships, ministered as part of a multi-cultural team, and produced something of eternal value. An unreached people group will finally have access to the Gospel of Christ.and they'll have it in a medium that communicates best to them. From this foundation churches can grow, disciples can be made and these unreached people will no longer be unreached.

Global Frontier Missions in now offering the OneStory Quest two-year internship beginning in May of 2006. Click here for more information concerning these missions opportunities.