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Orality Breakouts – Epilogue

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Epilogue
By Samuel E. Chiang

They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and ...

Orality Breakouts – Chapter 19 – Orality, Storytelling, and Values Preservation in Bhutan

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Chapter 19 – Orality, Storytelling, and Values Preservation in Bhutan
By Steve Evans

A new kind of happiness
As the jetliner ...

Orality Breakouts – Chapter 18 – Evaluations and Oral Cultures

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Chapter 18 – Evaluations and Oral Cultures
By J. Peter McLain

A Christian ministry’s quarterly newsletter arrived in the hand...

Orality Breakouts – Chapter 17 – The Crescendo of Local Arts in Orality

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Chapter 17 – The Crescendo of Local Arts in Orality
By Robin Harris and Frank Fortunato

Since it was already March in this Si...

Orality Breakouts – Chapter 16 – Stories for the One Child Generation

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Chapter 16 – Stories for the One Child Generation
By Fay Leung

Stories are priceless. They can bring joy and a sense of appre...

Orality Breakouts – Chapter 15 – On Mission with God

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Chapter 15 – On Mission with God in Prayer for God’s Purpose: Transformation
By Linda Bemis, Maureen Bravo, and Barbara Clark
...

Orality Breakouts – Chapter 14 – Lessons Learned

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Chapter 14 – Lessons Learned: Orality in HIV/AIDS and Water Projects
By Bramuel Musya

Oral strategies at work
I have been inv...

Orality Breakouts – Chapter 13 – The Forgotten Majority

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Chapter 13 – The Forgotten Majority: Global Applications of Orality Training for Women
By Carla Bowman

West Africa hears the ...

Orality Breakouts – Chapter 12 – The Potter and Mass Media

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Chapter 12 – The Potter and Mass Media
By Andrew Sundar

Mass media for broad-sowing and reaching oral societies
Bright future...

Orality Breakouts – Chapter 11 – Practices in Orality

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Chapter 11 – Practices in Orality: The Existence, Identification, and Engagement of a People’s Worldview
By James Slack

Chris...

Orality Breakouts – Chapter 10 – From Storytelling to Church – the Heart of the Matter

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Chapter 10 – From Storytelling to Church – the Heart of the Matter
By Stephen Stringer

Whenever people ask me why I am ...

Orality Breakouts – Section 3 – An Unfinished Story

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Section 3 – An Unfinished Story

Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them withou...

Orality Breakouts – Chapter 9 – A Church Was Born

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Chapter 9 – A Church Was Born
By Steve Sims

In early 2006, the Oral Communication Strategy team at e3 Partners Ministry1 bega...

Orality Breakouts – Chapter 8 – Media that Transforms Nations

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Chapter 8 – Media that Transforms Nations
By Calvin and Carol Conkey

Media—by all possible means!
Small roadside fires lit ou...

Orality Breakouts – Chapter 7 – Stepping Stones to Reaching Orissa’s Oral Culture

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Chapter 7 – Stepping Stones to Reaching Orissa’s Oral Culture
By Roy and Sheryl Wingerd
 
In one day, seven families list...

Orality Breakouts – Chapter 6 – Living Out a Visual Story

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Chapter 6 – Living Out a Visual Story
By Paula Dubill
 
Sometimes we think of communication mostly in terms of words. Ora...

Orality Breakouts – Chapter 5 – Oral People and the Spoken Word

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Chapter 5 – Oral People and the Spoken Word
By Ralph Danita

Oral communication of God’s truth
Oral storytelling has a long hi...

Orality Breakouts – Chapter 4 – Breakthroughs

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Chapter 4 – Breakthroughs
By Elizabeth Wilson
“How do you say this in Kahani?”
It was about midday. I sat on our shaded concre...

Orality Breakouts – Section 2 – The Word Became Fresh

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Section 2 – The Word Became Fresh
Listen then to what the parable of the Sower means. – Matthew 13:18
What we are living...

Orality Breakouts – Chapter 3 – What God Hath Wrought: The Electronic Breakthrough that Revived Orality

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Chapter 3 – What God Hath Wrought: The Electronic Breakthrough that Revived Orality
by Mark Snowden and Avery Willis
The inven...

Orality Breakouts – Chapter 2 – Three CEOs Leading Change

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Chapter 2 – Three CEOs Leading Change
by Samuel E. Chiang and Steve Evans
One of the biggest challenges for the leader of any ...

Orality Breakouts – Chapter 1 – The Passion for Orality

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Chapter 1 – The Passion for Orality
by Samuel E. Chiang
We listened intently to a description of how children’s soccer teams w...

Orality Breakouts – Section 1 – The Back Story

The following is a chapter from the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
Section 1 – The Back Story
With many similar parables Jesus spoke the word to them, as much as they could understand. – ...

Orality Breakouts – Foreword by Avery T. Willis Jr.

The following is the foreword to the book ‘Orality Breakouts – Using Heart Language to Transform Hearts‘.  A chapter will be posted here each week.
The room was abuzz at the 2000 Amsterdam conference on evangelism, sponsored by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Six hund...