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her shar A Seattle church takes a leap into orality
Dave Fisc e Gospel
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story of
Understanding Unreached church’s mission focus toward three
People Groups UPG’s. Therefore, we have made a fresh
start and are proactively rethinking where
“I’ll never forget that night in the Perspectives and how we will use our human and
class. It changed the way I look at the world, financial resources.
at missions and at life! The speaker was using
an overhead projector and put a map of Nigeria One exciting part of our UPG strategy has
up on the wall. He then asked the students to been to incorporate “oral strategies”for those
discuss around their tables how they would people who cannot read, prefer not to read,
go about reaching Nigeria if it was up to them. or have no written Bible in their language
Nigeria and su Having been involved in missions for 25 years, (a huge majority of the remaining UPG’s).
rrounding
countries I had what I considered some meaningful In two of our UPG engagements, we are
thoughts on how to do it and I confidently utilizing“Chronological Bible Storying”as
shared them. the first step toward getting the gospel to
these people.
Next, the instructor put up another picture.
It was a color-coded overlay of Nigeria show- StoryRunners, a ministry of Campus
ing all the unique ethno-linguistic groups living Crusade for Christ, has been a huge help
within the Nigerian national borders. There in helping us develop and implement our
were several hundred“people groups”shown “oral strategies.” We are trusting God that
in this view of Nigeria. In an instant, it was clear He will use His word made understandable
to me. The“National Strategy”I was proposing and transferrable in each culture to lead to
would never work. As my Lead Pastor has said, self-sustaining church planting movements
and allow our church to be a catalyst to
within
“If we move up the scale from 7 to 10—using
o p l e g roups the best possible conventional approach to win- make it happen. To God be the glory!
Pe
alone.
Nigeria
ning a country for Christ—we still would have – Dave Fischer
no hope of fulfilling the Great Commission.
For more information on Story Runners
Since that time six years ago, my understand- contact Dale Smith at storyrunners@ccci.org
ing of Unreached People Groups and the great or 407-826-2396
barrier to the gospel that they pose has grown www.storyrunners.com
significantly. One of the things that I’ve done to
help address this barrier has been to steer our
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