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Hello to you listening in City of Bethel, Alaska!

Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and a bit more because it’s important) for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga.

What happens when you bring together an award-winning actress and facilitator with a world class speaker and coach and give each of them a microphone? Two of my newest friends and colleagues, Susan Sneath and Gail McDonald, are the professional brains and flames behind The Change Zone Talk on Bold Brave TV. Their ability to entertain while educating is legendary!

What’s their Change Zone end game? Creating the community that embodies change, one conversation, one story at a time. How? By exploring challenges to change; and leaving people at a higher level of awareness and a lot more in love with themselves than before because they resolved those challenges.

When you have a really grand time laughing, discovering, provoking, storying, learning, conversing, questioning with friends don’t you want to share that? I do! Why? Because it’s like being sistahs from different mistahs. That’s how Susan and Gail made this guest feel: like a welcome sibling without all the baggage.

If you’re curious about the Change Zone magic pull up a comfy space, pour a good cup or glass, and settle in to enjoy the enchantment of this shared time on navigating life, how to succeed, how to fail forward, how to invite the message of your heart, creativity, the power of story to connect us , and so much more! 

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Podcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story Arts

Music: Mer’s Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron Music

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Today's show:

• ION is NEXT WEEK!
• Conference for all
• ION page goodies

With the Int'l Orality Network conference coming up next week Bryan takes the last Summer Sessions show for this year to focus on ION (Int'l Orality Network) and gives an overview of the conference content and also talks about some of the riches and resources you can find on the ION web page.

Links ... ION conference site (for registration) ... ION web site for resources  

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Today's show:

• 500 shows!
• What are we about?
• Some stories about impact

Bryan celebrates 500 shows since the start of story4all by looking back at why we exist and by telling some stories about the effect of oral communication on unreached people groups.

Links ... Issachar Initiative ... Davar Partners ... Davar audio player ... YWAM ... Create International ... Indigitube ... International Orality Network ... t4Global

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This week's photo is by Anne entitled Day 500 ... Some rights reserved.

Today's show:

• J.O. Terry on Biblical Illiteracy and its effect on society
• Looking at how to turn the tide on lack of Bible knowledge and understanding
• Links round the web to different articles on this subject

J.O. Terry, retired IMB missionary of many years service in Asia and orality movement authority and thinker, joins Bryan on this week's show to discuss the reality of biblical illiteracy and its impact on today's society, as well as looking at possible solutions through story use.

Links ... Dr. Albert Mohler article on Biblical Illiteracy ... Why Johnny can't read the Bible ... Dr Toby Jennings on Biblical Illiteracy and the Knowldge of God

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Today's show:

• A story from cattle herders in Africa
• Oral newspapers
• Looking at OralityStrategies.org

This week we are bringing you two stories about storytelling from remote parts of the world. One from Africa and one from Asia. They are found on the OralityStrategies/org web site and together other stories and resources we encourage you to check this site out and dive into the goodies to be found there.

Links ... The OralityStrategies web site ... The story about cattlemen here ... and the story about Oral Newspapers here 

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Today's show:

• Evangelism UNbelievers enjoy!
• Christine Dillon interview
• Church planting through story in Asia

Christine Dillon joins Bryan on this week's show, Skyped in from Australia. Christine grew up on the mission field and is fluent in Taiwanese and Mandarin and has been using storytelling to reach and make disciples of the lost in Asia. Christine is an author (see book links below) and she shares some stories about how she is using Bible stories in ministry.

Links ... Christine's book "Telling the Gospel Through Story" available here and on Kindle ... Contact Christine here ... Henna Stories show

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Today's show:

• It's all in how you peel an orange!
• A recovering Missions Pastor talks about learning
• Summer Sessions

Continuing our Summer Sessions we are starting a two-part series this week on how people receive information and looking at how to bring people to the place of really learning. To help us in this task? Chuck Madinger. Chuck has spent twenty-seven years in congregational ministry, serving universities and seminaries teaching in the US and abroad. He has launched three mission and consulting organisations helping reach the world's oral majority with partners in over 20 countries. His experiences include designing oral strategies and instruction on content ranging from discipleship to widow empowerment, HIV/AIDS awareness in Africa to civil society programs in places like Iraq, Sudan, and Afghanistan. Chuck is now completing his PhD in communication.

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Information and registration details for the ION conference in September (16-19th) in St Louis, MO, USA

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Today's show:

• Making truth stick for literates in the West
• A curriculum for making disciples among Western literates
• Making storytelling interesting in the Western context

Bryan caught up this week with Mark Snowden, Director of Snowden Ministries, about an exciting project he is producing through his TruthSticks emphasis for oral learners. Mark is producing a quarterly collection of storying lessons as part of a Biblical Panorama curriculum for Bible studies and small groups. This curriculum is designed to minister in a Western context and has teaching pictures and activities that make Bible storytelling for Western literates (and non-literates) both memorable as well as engaging and fun. Check out today's show to learn more!

Links ... Request your own copy of the Sept-Nov 2013 curriculum by emailing Mark here ... TruthSticks website 

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Today's show:

• Church planting movements (CPMs) among oral learners
• Vital ingredients of CPMs
• Pam Arlund shares her heart

Returning to the latest edition of the Orality Journal (Vol 2 No 1), we hear today the first (in a two-part) show about Church Planting Movements (CPMs) in the context of literacy and orality. Pam Arlund, Director of Training for All Nations Family, Inc., and based in Kansas City, argues how important it is for us to adjust perspective and practice so we include oral learners more readily to aid in the speed of CPMs. Join us next week to hear some stories about the use of story in CPMs in different parts of the world.

Links ... International Orality Network web site

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Today's show:

• Michael Novelli update0
• Merge!
• Kids Around the World events

Michael Novelli is no stranger to story4all and today we get caught up to what he has been doing in his marvellous work among high school students and also training those who work with them, as well as developing curricula and training for people to reach these youth. Here also about the Merge event coming up in the summer and how you can join in the fun. Also hear from another story4all listener, Gary Strudler, who tells us about some exciting events that Kids Around the World have coming up between now and the end of the year.

Links ... Echo the Story/Sparkhouse web site ... Merge event coming to a city near you ... Kids Around the World web site

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Today's show:

• A story from Bhutan
• Another from 
• Orality Journal

Today we finish our series reading through the Orality Journal. Steve Evans writes a story about Bhutan and how it helps us to "mind the gap" in the world of oral communication. Janet Stahl, next, tells us about learning to do the twist!

Links ... International Orality Network web site ... Orality Journal download your own FREE copy 

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Today's show:

• JO Terry concludes his article with more stories
• Stories from around the world
• Orality Journal article

Today we hear the conclusion to the JO Terry article from the Orality Journal entitled "The Worldwide Spread of Bible Storying: A Look at Where We've Been". JO tells us more stories from a number of countries about the use of Bible storying and the results of its use in ministry.

Links ... International Orality Network web site ... Orality Journal download your own FREE copy ... Shaped by the Story (Michael Novelli's book) available here ... Sign up for Stories from Storytellers weekly email

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Today's show:

• JO Terry continues with stories about the global spread of Bible storytelling
• Stories from around the world
• Orality Journal article

Today we continue to listen to the JO Terry article from the Orality Journal entitled "The Worldwide Spread of Bible Storying: A Look at Where We've Been". JO brings us stories from a number of settings and countries around the world about the use of Bible storying and the results of its use in ministry.

Links ... International Orality Network web site ... Orality Journal download your own FREE copy ... Previous Orality Journal shows here ... Building Firm Foundations book series here ... EE-TAOW! films here

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Today's show:

• JO Terry on the global spread of story ministry
• Stories from long ago
• Orality Journal article

Today we return to the first issue of the Orality Journal, produced by the International Orality Network. In September we ran a series of shows on Grant Lovejoy's article (see link below). Today we hear JO Terry's article The Worldwide Spread of Bible Storying: A Look at Where We've Been. JO begins with a mixture of his personal pilgrimage in orality and also some of the first uses of Bible storying and the results.

Links ... International Orality Network web site ... Orality Journal download your own FREE copy ... Previous Orality Journal shows here

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Today's show:

• Going remote with storytelling and what happens
• Steve Sims of e3Partners tells stories from the far flung areas
• Reaching out through story in Africa

Steve Sims, a friend of story4all and the Director of Oral Communication Strategies for e3Partners, meets with Bryan to tell stories about his organisation's orality wing and how the Gospel is not only reaching and making disciples of people in remote places, but also training people in those areas to take the Story further! Learn about e3Partners' work on the frontiers and rejoice at how the Word is changing lives through their missionaries among the unreached and unevangelised.

Links ... e3Partners web site ... e3Partners videos about their work ... e3Partners training opportunities

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Today' show:

• John Walsh from the Rockies!
• Israel storytelling trip report
• Free stories download and also by email
• Storytelloing training with John Walsh

Bryan, who is just back from the Int'l Orality Network conference in the Rocky Mountains, meets up with John Walsh in this week's show. John tells us about the wonderful trip to Israel where 130 Bible stories were told 'on location'. He also shares about the groups of stories that can be downloaded from his web site. Then there is news about the video story of the week podcast as well as a story-a-day by email! Jam-packed episode as you can tell!

Links ... Bibletelling.org web site ... Free story downloads here ... Subscribe to Bibletelling Story of the Week on iTunes ... Ask John for the 5-a-week story email

John is providing storytelling training in Bloomington, IL in the USA next month from 7th-9th November - details here

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