OneStory - Types of Programs
From SPARK
One-sentence summary
OneStory is a partnership between five different Mission agencies: Campus Crusade for Christ, International Mission Board, Trans World Radio, Wycliffe Bible Translators and Youth With A Mission to provide the scriptures to oral-preference learners.
Description
OneStory has a three-part introductory set of around 40 to 50 chronological Bible stories developed to support a reproducing evangelism, discipleship and church life. There are three different types of programs:
Quest - Quest teams participate in a two-year training and consulting cycle which involves training sessions and onsite mentoring at intervals of approximately every three months.
Venture - In a Venture project, a church, agency or individual team has an established work among a particular people group, and sees the need for a well rounded chronological storying approach. These individuals would assist the long term team.
Journey - A Journey project involves a church or agency engaging in an outreach of two weeks to two months or more with a people group. They would use the audio recordings of the chronological Bible stories resulting from a Venture or Quest project in regions of the people group area where the stories may not yet have been heard.
Rationale
The majority of the world's unreached people groups are made up of oral-preference learners, who often have no written language of their own. In order to reach them, OneStory works with mother-tongue speakers to develop and record worldview-sensitive, chronological Bible "story sets" for each specific group - typically 40 to 60 stories in a two-year period. Mother-tongue speakers spread the stories to others. These story sets form the beginnings of an "oral Bible" to be told and retold for generations.
Along with the development of story sets, other essential outcomes for a two-year OneStory Quest project include:
- Training mother-tongue speakers to tell the stories within their people groups to facilitate evangelism, discipleship and church planting movements.
- Audio recording of the stories archived for reference (to keep stories accurate), for distribution through broad sowing (listening groups, audio tapes, CDs) and for use in radio broadcasts.
- Documentation of the project's worldview research, reviews for biblical integrity with supporting notes, and description of the project results.
- Planning for follow-up ministry by the partnering agencies and the established local church plants.
Our goal is to be a catalyst in initiating such work in more than 5,500 UPGs (Unreached people groups) by the year 2020.
OneStory's unique training process has been tested in multiple countries and many languages. Mobilization efforts are underway in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America to train and equip workers to reach out in their own countries and across borders as well.
Considerations
Consider the amount of time this will take and weigh the benefits of cost and time.
For more information
- Contact: OneStory
- Cost depends on the country where the training is done.
