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The story4all podcast where we take an informed layman's look at the world of oral culture. We bring you discussion, interviews and information from around the world to show how Bible storytelling can make disciples of those who can't, won't or don't read. Join us now by subscribing to the show and online at www.story4all.com, where you will find resources, training opportunities, a calendar of events worldwide, forums and more. It's all here at story4all, where we believe Bible stories are not just for Sunday School! www.story4all.com

enBryan Thompson / Simply The Story637 Episodes

Episodes (637)

s4a618 - Impact Stories

Today's show:

Stories from Nepal, India, Nigeria and S Sudan
Brickmakers, Muslims, Hindus hearing the Story
... And what happens as a result

Bryan shares several stories from Asia and Africa in various contexts where storytelling occurred and how people responded to the story, often in surprising ways.

Links ... The God's Story Project ... Simply the Story ... Megavoice

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enApril 17, 2018

s4a617 - Ears to Hear

Today's show:

A story4all classic
Dorothy Miller muses on the Martha & Mary story
Stories from around the world on the power of story

As a follow-up to our recent "classic story4all" shows on the Martha & Mary story Dorothy Miller shares some thoughts on the power of that story, why stories are powerful, how the Martha & Mary story has been used in the nations and then tells stories about storytelling around the world.

A story4all classic show.

Links ... Simply the Story

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enApril 10, 2018

s4a616 - Upside Down Kingdom

Today's show:

When the despised lower class are able to train the higher
A young woman from Finland seeing God transform lives
A story of grace and mercy in the Ecuadorian jungle

Dan McDonough interviews Hanna Eriksson from Finland who has been ministering among an indigenous Indian tribe in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador. Hanna tells a wonderful story of God turning things on their head culturally and socially as He impacts these Kichwa Indians in the jungle.

Links ... Simply the Story ... The God's Story Project ... MegaVoice

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enApril 03, 2018

s4a615 - I Don't Want to Read!

Today's show:

USA literacy situation
And not just there
What are we going to do about it?

Looking at some recent statistics that have been released about reading in the USA have provoked Bryan to look again at this phenomenon - that our world is increasingly a non-reader environment. Bryan shares these interesting new angles and takes on readers (or the lack of them!) and then discusses what must be our consideration as we seek to obey the Great Commission.

Links ... National Assessment of Adult Literacy ... Surprising reading facts (& Infographic)

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enMarch 27, 2018

s4a614 - Teaching Martha & Mary

Today's show:

From our classic story series
Dorothy Miller tells Martha & Mary from Luke 10
Dorothy Miller teaching the mechanics of the story

Bryan and Dorothy Miller share in exploring a Bible story from Luke 10 and through it we discover some mechanics behind a story presentation.

Links ... Simply the Story

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enMarch 20, 2018

s4a613 - Early Days Part 2

Today's show:

Impacting nations through the simply told accurate story
Convicted about "helping God" tell His story
Brickmakers changed by story

Continuing our story4all "Classics" series on Early Days of The God's Story Project, Dorothy Miller tells some super stories about story impacting lives in Asia.

Links ... The God's Story Project

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enMarch 13, 2018

s4a612 - Early Days

Today's show:

A story4all classic from 2007
Dorothy Miller talks about a new storytelling course
How this course helped people go deeper in the Word

In the second of our story4all classics series, Bryan takes us back to 2007 when he talks with Dorothy Miller, founder and then leader of The God Story Project, and we learn about some of the exciting beginnings of a new storytelling course that would impact over 80 nations in the first two years.

Links ... The God's Story Project ... Audio players packed with goodies ... Simply the Story

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enMarch 06, 2018

s4a611 - Greenisland Goodness & Grace

Today's show:

The woman who couldn't wait to tell stories
A lonely and isolated couple find a family
The unlikely ones whom God chooses

Just back from a Simply the Story training in Greenisland, outside of Belfast in the UK, Bryan tells some stories of lives transformed by the Bible stories and training experience.

Links ... STS ... What is STS? ... Training events coming up

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enFebruary 27, 2018

s4a610 - Orality & Culture Part 3

Today's show:

Not working orally with oral peoples breeds cultural Christianity
You could not be a rabbi unless you had memorised the Torah
For oral peoples literacy is not an option

By request and as part of our series on classic story4all shows we are looking back to 2006 to a series of three shows on literacy, orality, and culture.

Professor Jim Slack, Global Evangelism and Church Growth Consultant and Researcher, with 25 years on the mission field experiences and years of research and study on literacy and orality, concludes his talk on Cultural Christianity this week.

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enFebruary 20, 2018

s4a609 - Orality & Culture Part 2

Today's show:

Reaching people in the language they cry in, love in and work in
Oral people learn by stories
If we do not take orality seriously we cannot take the Great Commission seriously

By request and as part of our series on classic story4all shows we are looking back to 2006 to a series of three shows on literacy, orality, and culture.

Continuing this week with the second part of a talk by Professor Jim Slack, a Global Evangelism and Church Growth Consultant and Researcher, with 25 years on the mission field experiences and years of research and study on literacy and orality.

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enFebruary 13, 2018

s4a608 - Orality & Culture Part 1

Today's show:

Shocking stats on literacy in Western developed nations!
Seeing the world with our blinders on (& its dangers)!
More cultural than Christian

By request and as part of our series on classic story4all shows we are looking back to 2006 to a series of three shows on literacy, orality and culture.

This talk, which will continue over the next three weeks, is given by Professor Jim Slack, a Global Evangelism and Church Growth Consultant and Researcher, with 25 years on the mission field experiences and years of research and study on literacy and orality.

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enFebruary 06, 2018

s4a607 - The Power of Casual Storytelling

Today's show:

Musing on how newly trained storytellers are thrilled
Why storytelling is a natural ministry for us
Some stories of people touched by casual stories

Bryan, reflecting on some feedback we received today from people trained last week in Paraguay and how casual storytelling really is a powerful ministry tool.

Links ... STS ... Learn how to casually tell stories if you missed these shows on the Howtos (listen to shows s4a413, s4a414 and s4a415 in that order)

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enJanuary 30, 2018

s4a606 - Stories from Paraguay

Today's show:

Scorpions, snakes and spiritual wafare
Several stories of lives transformed this week
When backsliders, the abused and the wounded meet Jesus

Bryan on location in Paraguay, training youth and other nationals in storytelling, has had some fun this week seeing remarkable transformation in a number of lives. This week’s show is full of God-stories and encounters in His Word.

Links ... STS

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enJanuary 23, 2018

s4a605 - Stories from Chile

Today's show:

A thirteen year old boy transformed
A woman broken by the love Jesus showed in a story
And other stories from last week’s training in Chile

Bryan, in the midst of a South American storytelling training tour with his wife, brings some stories of God at work through the STS workshop in Santiago, the capital of Chile, this past week.

Links ... STS

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enJanuary 16, 2018

s4a604 - Ecuadorian Finn

Today's show:

A young Finnish woman living half her life in Ecuador
Impacting the disadvantaged in Ecuador
 Finding the power in storytelling

Bryan interviews Joanna Sormunen, from Finland, who has lived more than half her life in Ecuador and hears her exciting journey into brave ministry to the disadvantaged as well as about her discovery of the power in Bible storytelling.

Links ... STS

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enJanuary 09, 2018

s4a603 - Finding Destiny

Today's show:

An unfulfilled woman finds purpose and destiny
How to preach to a group of people from different multi-faith backgrounds
Storytelling in an Irish traditional church setting
How a group of believers discovered how to reach the unchurched

Bryan kicks off the year with a collection of stories from around the UK & Ireland where storytelling has resulted in transforming lives and giving people a sense of purpose and meaning.

Links ... Simply the Story web site

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enJanuary 02, 2018

s4a602 - Happy New Year!

Today's show:

Happy New Year to you our listeners!
A "before and after" story!

Bryan tells a "stand-out" story from South Africa that was emblematic of what God did again and again throughout the year in all the storytelling ministry of 2017 training trips. How story transformed a life!

Links ... And in case you missed it last week: A Bible story in a Ukrainian church of about 100 people this month for your viewing and listening pleasure. Click here to view on YouTube - the story starts at the 48:00-minute marker.

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enDecember 26, 2017

s4a601 - Happy Christmas!

Today's show:

Happy Christmas to all our listeners!
Reflections on storytelling ministry throughout the past year

Bryan looks back on the past year of storytelling ministry in this Christmas episode of the podcast.

Links ... A story for you at Christmas - click forward to minute 48:00 to start listening to the story

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enDecember 19, 2017

s4a600 - Stories in Ukraine

Today's show:

A decade of training
From Kiev to Odessa to the nations
Last week in Kiev

Last week Bryan was leading a workshop in Kiev and he takes a moment, in this 600th show, to discuss some training experiences in and stories from Ukraine since early 2011.

Links ... International Messengers ... Simply the Story training ... Calvary Chapel international site ... Calvary Chapel, Kiev ... Calvary Chapel, Kiev own site with the link this week to the story Bryan did in their morning church service ... Calvary Chapel Bible College Europe.

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enDecember 12, 2017

s4a599 - The Road to Kiev

Today's show:

The influence of Granny
A fascination with God and His Word through story
Crossing the world and back with His Story

Bryan, on location in Ukraine for a workshop this week, talks with Ira (who led the presentation of a Bible story in podcast #593) about her life and journey into storytelling.

Links ... Simply the Story

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enDecember 05, 2017