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Pat Ozment's Training for Rural Trainers
Follow the Ozments, IMB Masters program missionaries, as they spend a weekend teaching believers in Northern Ghana who to share the Gospel. Pat uses a method known as Training for Rural Trainers to teach church members in a small village how to tell Bible stories orally.
Radio Paakati: Vital resource for Suriname's Aukaners
Charles Shirey broadcasts news, community information and hope to the Aukaner people of South America
Come walk in their flip-flops
Missionary Judy Miller shares her thoughts as team leader about the difficult, yet encouraging work of the OneStory teams in West Africa.
Basic Reading Skills and the Literacy of the America's Least Literate Adults
The (U. S.) National Center for Education Statistics examines the "profile and [basic reading skills] of America’s least literate adults." The following study from the National Assessment of Adult Literacy shows that the majority of people...
Scripture Distribution
Report on the world distribution of scriptures by Bible societies.
Quick Facts about Global Literacy
In 2008 the United Nations released International Literacy Statistics: A Review of Concepts, Methodology and Current Data. It gave some interesting information about current realities and trends related to literacy. Excerpts are quoted in the attached document.
Best Methods for Teaching Adults to Read
When people encounter the Bible via oral methods, they frequently develop interest in learning to read the Bible for themselves. That is an admirable goal. We want to encourage literacy, especially for those who are motivated by a desire to understand the Bible better.
Low Literacy among U. S. Prison Inmates
Prison inmates have lower literacy skills on average than U. S. adults who are not in prison. That is one of the findings of the National Assessment of Adult Literacy, which is releasing its findings in a series of studies. One of them, "Literacy behind Bars," reports that inmates in U. S. prisons showed consistently lower literacy skills than their counterparts who are not in prison...
The Importance of Voice
"As they waited, they were interviewed by American television news journalists. My husband and I went from channel to channel, until we began hearing the same phrases repeated, to capture image and voice..."
Telling OneStory in Mali
Susan and Amy, journeymen in Mali, live in an African village because they know relationships are the key to crafting and recording stories from the heart of the Bible for an unreached people group.
A Voice in the Darkness
Broadcasting news, community information and hope to the Aukaner people of South America
