Orality

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Send your Spanish-speaking friends to YouTube to see what a small group Bible study would look like when using oral strategies! MAF-LT's video team recorded a live session of Simply The Story, an oral inductive Bible study. Laura Macias delivers "One Leper" from Mark 1:40-45 and follows with questions that has the entire group excited about finding lessons from God's Word and sharing how they apply to their lives today.

Here is the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCOFnkcQsbc

Brian Ward of Mission Aviation Fellowship's Learning Technologies division discusses how MAF-LT helps ministries move forward with distance education and mobile learning. This presentation was given at the December, 2011, meeting of the Mobile Ministry Forum.

Mobile Ministry Forum Consultation 2011 - MAF-LT and Mobile Ministry from Clyde Taber on Vimeo.

Are you...

• CURIOUS about Bible storytelling but short on time or money to attend a workshop?
• EXCITED about Bible storying but don't have an audience?
• INTERESTED in new ways to follow Bible stories with questions?

Then join our VIRTUAL storytelling community via Skype! We meet every Wednesday afternoon for an hour at 1pm PST, 2pm MST, 3pm CST and 4pm EST. Just contact MAF-LT and send your request to "Orality Comments &  Questions."

       The reality that 2/3 of the world’s adults don’t, OR WON’T LEARN FROM READING, has challenged one of MAF-LT’s clients to move their leadership training materials from 6^th grade to 2^nd grade level. A common mistake made by literates when simplifying training for these “Oral Learners” is the temptation to “dumb down” the material. After all, what can they teach if they are limited to a 2^nd grade vocabulary?

But the adults they are working with are not second graders. Many are intelligent men and women who may be perceptive believers. As Oral Learners they just don’t have the ability (or desire) to use written material. They don’t divide life into abstract categories like “love” or “forgiveness.” Neither did Jesus. He told memorable stories, like the Prodigal Son! 

Since an Oral Learner’s capacity for learning is limited largely to memory, the challenge is to make important lessons more memorable. Here are some ideas:

Freetown, Sierra Leone

Arrival
Sierra Leone revealed something when our Air France flight from Paris stopped first in Conakry, Guinea.  Three-quarters of the passengers got off the plane - including the crew who would overnight there before returning to France.  A rested crew took over, flew an additional 40 minutes south to drop us off in Freetown, Sierra Leone, then headed north for home.