story4all

Today's show:

• Mark's experience raising youth in orality
• Overview of orality
• Tools to help others in ministry

A "must hear" podcast!  Mark shares how he started using oral methods in ministry. Mark describes how his role in IMB led him to discover orality and then helping youth to reach the lost. He soon discovered that American's needed help too and shifted his focus to reach the oral learners in the USA. Learn about Mark's partnership with Avery Willis and Master Life. Listen in to some of these amazing stories of Mark's path through orality, bringing us to today.

Heart Pocket Podcast will be enjoying the season and offline for Christmas and New Year's.

Links … ION … Simply The Story (STS) … Mark Snowden

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Today's show:

• Former atheist shares
• Physician describes his heart to help people in pain
• When sharing is not easy

Part 2 of 2, Mark is a physician and shares a little bit on the difficulties of helping people with long term pain. As a former atheist and firm believer in Jesus Christ, Mark also shares a little about his patients' uncertainties about God and encourages through Bible stories. Nothing happens by chance.

Links … ION … The God's Story Project …

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Today's show:

• Former atheist shares
• Physician describes his heart to help people in pain
• Father shares why he turned to Bible stories

Part 1 of 2, Mark is a physician and shares a little bit on the difficulties of helping people with long term pain. As a former atheist and firm believer in Jesus Christ, Mark also shares a little about his thoughts as an atheist and part of what led him to abandon this thinking, which also impacts his how he helps his patients. Lastly, as a father and Bible teacher to young boys, Mark recognized that the boy had no strong Biblical reference point (except maybe vegie tales) so he turns to Bible stories.

Links … ION … The God's Story Project …

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Today's show:

• Start of Gogo Grandmothers
• Tremendous impact in Malawi
• Sub-Saharan African Family Enrichment (S.A.F.E)

Dick and Charlotte Day traveled to Malawi in 1990 after they retired and discovered a great need. Many children had been orphaned due to the aids epidemic leaving the "gogos" (or grandmothers in the Chichewa language) to care for their young. What started as a 1 year missions trip for the Days, turned into multiple programs for discipling, parenting training, early childhood development, feeding programs, and all with a Biblical focus.

Links … Gogo Grandmothers … The God's Story Project … Simply The Story

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Today's show:

• Family ministry
• Children leading Children's group
• Bible studies with all ages

Billy has been using Simply The Story (STS) Bible discussion method in Uganda since his children were little. Several years later, surprised that the lead instructor welcomed his children to attend an STS training in Ireland, Billy, his wife Joanna, and the 3 little ones chose to join him. Billy compares his PHD studies with what his children discover in the Scriptures akin to looking at the trees and sometimes missing the forest.

Links … Simply The Story (STS)

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Today's show:

• Recording the Full Bible
• Davar's progress in their vision
• The power of the Old Testament

Mark Perkins, the CEO of Davar Partners International (DPI), shared about the re-focus of DPI and why.  He is personally impacted by the need for more of the Scriptures being recorded. With almost 7000 languages in the world, only 9% have a full Bible, and worse, about 1% of the full Bibles are in a recorded form. However, a majority of the world (80%) are oral learners. This means many people can't read, barely read, or often choose not to read even when they can.

Links … The God's Story Project … Davar Partners

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Today's show:

• Joys of Adoption
• Reactive Attachment Disorder
• Emotional Challenges with RAD

We talk with Jason who gives us some insights about adopted children. The topic of RAD, or reactive attachment disorder, was so fascinating and important, that anyone considering adoption, who has adopted, or even knows people who have adopted needs to hear this. Jason, who is a pastor, shares about the guilt he felt and the dynamics involved with adopting children with RAD. Learn what do parents can do to help RAD kids. We hope this helps all who listen.

Links … RAD (Youtube video about RAD)

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Today's show:

• Turning unbelief to trust in God
• God's next step in prayer
• Praying the Scriptures

The ION Prayer Team finishes helping us consider new ways for prayer. What does it mean to prayer the heart of God?  We learn how the prayer team prays the Word of God and even struggles at time with unbelief. What does it look like to pray that the Lord of the harvest send laborers in to His harvest field?

Links … ION … The God's Story Project … Story4All

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Today's show:

• Prayer in the book of Acts
• Working together in prayer
• Relational prayer different from prayer cards
• When God says no

The ION prayer team continues to explore new ideas in prayer, taking us from our traditional prayer cards and papers to relational prayer opportunities. What do we do when God says no? How do we work together in prayer? Could there be a difference between "doing prayer" and praying continually?   

Links … ION … The God's Story Project … Story4All

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Today's show:

• Traditional Prayer and New Ideas
• Men in Prayer Groups
• Praying the Scriptures

Linda Bemis and some of the ION prayer team share how new ideas for prayer help people unshackle false ideas about prayer. Prayer is two way communication and it’s listening to God, expecting Him to answer. What does this mean when Linda says, "God did not franchise the burning bush?" Hear how waiting can be encouraging. The team helps people move the prayer room into the board room.

Links … ION … The God's Story Project … Story4All

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Heart Pocket Podcast is "live"!

Check out the Heart Pocket Podcast 
recommended successor to story4all!

A new iTunes feed to follow soon.

Meantime click the Play button above to hear their first show or go to and bookmark their Show Notes page here.

Heart Pocket Podcast is "live"!

Check out the Heart Pocket Podcast 
recommended successor to story4all!

A new iTunes feed to follow soon.

Meantime click the Play button above to hear their first show or go to and bookmark their Show Notes page here.

Today's show:

• Bryan Thompson thoughts on story4all
• story4all's Future
• Bryan and Ami's Plans as Global Ambassadors

Bryan Thompson shares his reasons for starting and stopping story4all and gives insights to some of his favorite shows, (s4a183 - The Megavoice Story, Dorothy Miller Bible Story Digging Deep in 2 parts, Arab leads an Arab to Jesus, and several from John Walsh and Grant Lovejoy). Bryan describes his excitement for their planned new adventures with The God's Story Project which takes them first to Ethiopia, then the Middle East and Latin America.

Links … STS … The God's Story Project … Story4All

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Today's show:

• End of an era
• May 2006 until August 2018
• story4all is transitioning

Bryan announces his closing of story4all as it is currently known. This has been a difficult decision, but due to the role change for his family, Bryan records his last show today, as he has discovered it will not be possible to maintain a show of quality in his future mobile and global role with Simply the Story and which involves his being without a permanent home and office.

Our initial 2006 goal of informing, mobilising and resourcing the Body of Christ into using oral communication as a ministry tool, and in particular, storytelling with discussion, has been reached.

Please keep an eye on this page and on the following links for further announcement towards a transition of the podcast in the future:

• Twitter
• Facebook story4all page

Today's show:

• End of an era
• May 2006 until August 2018
• story4all is transitioning

Bryan announces his closing of story4all as it is currently known. This has been a difficult decision, but due to the role change for his family, Bryan records his last show today, as he has discovered it will not be possible to maintain a show of quality in his future mobile and global role with Simply the Story and which involves his being without a permanent home and office.

Our initial 2006 goal of informing, mobilising and resourcing the Body of Christ into using oral communication as a ministry tool, and in particular, storytelling with discussion, has been reached.

Please keep an eye on this page and on the following links for further announcement towards a transition of the podcast in the future:

• Twitter
• Facebook story4all page

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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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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Today's show:

• How story4all got started
• Vision upon which we're founded
• Some fun stories

Bryan gets interviewed this week. Andrea, Simply the Story International Director, grabbed the mic from me one day recently and asked me to sit in the "interviewed" seat to tell some of the story4all story, so here we go ...

Links ... story4all web site ... Simply the Story web site ... The God's Story Project web site ... International Orality Network web site

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Today's show:

• How story4all got started
• Vision upon which we're founded
• Some fun stories

Bryan gets interviewed this week. Andrea, Simply the Story International Director, grabbed the mic from me one day recently and asked me to sit in the "interviewed" seat to tell some of the story4all story, so here we go ...

Links ... story4all web site ... Simply the Story web site ... The God's Story Project web site ... International Orality Network web site

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Today's show:

• A look at the scandal of biblical illiteracy
• How do we turn this tide?
• Can story have a role in this?

The June edition of story4all Magazine has just been released this past week on Apple's Newsstand. The subject of the month was biblical illiteracy and what can be done to turn the tide. This week Bryan brings some of the statistics to the show and discusses how storytelling and meditating on the Word can effect the way believers interact with the Word of God and thus turn the tide on biblical illiteracy.

Links ... Barna group web site ... Albert Mohler article ... David Nienhuis article

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Photograph by Graciano Turesso Feb 2011