She Remained Determined
Prayer & Praise Report # 5, 2011
Dear Friends of God’s Story,
Wow days are full! Since we sent report number #4 in September, numerous workshops in USA (PA, MI, 3 in CA) and scores overseas were held.
Also since September, 4 new languages of God’s Story were completed: Kijita for Tanzania and Adele, Ewe and Nkonya all for Ghana. 25 other new languages are in production or awaiting final approval and yet 26 more are now in line to be recorded! Why continue to produce languages? Those who need Jesus need to hear in their mother tongues!
“Stories” about God’s Story
North Africa: “We have given many C.D's of GS wherever we go and the Mega voices players with God’s Story. When my son goes the fields to visit the Shepherds, he always takes his back pack with GS and player. It is a great way to start a conversation. They always welcome you!”
UK Innovates New Course: “What a wonderfully clear presentation which so effectively encapsulates the Gospel of His plan of redemption. I see this as an ideal resource to use with our ‘Christianity Explored’ course and particularly welcome as we had identified a real need to be able to complement the course with an overview of the Bible. 'God's Story' fits the bill perfectly!
”Having now had opportunity to appreciate the value of the Discussion Guide, I would much appreciate it if you could forward 2 additional copies.”
Christmas Witness Special: We made a large run of God’s Story in English on audio CD with a cover title of “How Christmas Began.” These are perfect gifts for family and even for spontaneous witnessing opportunities while out during the Christmas holidays. $2.30 each.
Cost Dropped for solar-powered MegaVoice players. With either 3 languages of God’s Story on them (or God’s Story and assortment of programs and New Testament if available) the cost went from $45 to $39.95.
New “storyteller” model solar-player holds one God’s Story and some added content … only $17.95!!!!
Simply The Story
Shall We Call Them Churches? Out of the 19 Oral Bible Schools now in session in Kenya, four use the “business” model. Businesses there stop work at 5:00 p.m.. So from 5:00 to 9:00 in the evening, five days a week (and now often in lunch time too) students gather to learn and discuss Bible stories. During the 7 months they have followed this plan, the students have learned 147 stories! As well, students are telling those stories to others and people are getting saved. These new believers meet together weekly to hear and discuss more Bible stories and sing, pray and break bread together. Shall we call them churches? Oh, by the way … so far, 16 of these “churches” have sprung up!
Two STS workshops soon! Weekdays, Victory Ranch in Hemet and Weekend in Feb in Beaumont.
Kenya Not Qualified! After Anna (in photo) was saved, she had a passion to evangelize. But when Anna’s pastor discovered that she was illiterate, he told her, “You are not qualified.” But God equipped this lady.
A week after she was turned down for service, an Oral Bible School began in her village. One year later she graduated, having never missed a day of school! As well, she could tell 210 Bible stories AND knew how to teach them using discussion. To her pastor’s surprise and joy, she also now leads weekly Bible studies and has a vibrant evangelism ministry! She remained determined
Ghana: He won 2 Goats! A successful missionary with a heart for children has established 189 Bible clubs in 19 regions of Ghana. The 6,000 children who attend these weekly clubs took part in a year-long contest. They “studied” God’s Story on DVD or from a solar player. This missionary compiled 239 questions about the film, plus some from Galatians.
A 12-year old boy answered all of the questions correctly and won 2 goats! (The 2nd place was one goat and some chickens, 3rd one goat and some money and 4TH one goat.) Don’t you wish you could have competed? Realistically, the boy probably would have beaten us all, so I guess we would have missed winning the goats anyway.
From USA to Africa (Or is it from an African to an American?) Christian university student from California traveled to Uganda and stopped by an STS workshop led by Africans from Kenya. The discussion of one story, Martha/Mary, spoke to her so profoundly that her life was radically impacted. Across the world from her homeland, God spoke His message to a young American girl through a Bible story told by an African!
India: Births At Funeral: ”A phone call came to a church office while I was doing some business there. The caller said her relative died who used to work in that office. They phone several Pastors of that denomination to visit this family but no one came on time so they requested me to help them in all proceedings. So I went and conducted funeral service.
Next March we plan to lead training summits in Asia. We hope to encourage and fine tune hundreds of STS instructors. We also plan to do advanced training of those who orchestrate new God’s Story versions and those who record God’s Story and audio and DVD Bible stories. All these leaders come from a wide range of countries and states outside of the USA.
Our ”Thanksgiving” to God is for this huge increase of instructors world-wide who now are independently leading Simply The Story (STS) workshops and orchestrating and recording new versions of God’s Story. Thanks to you for your interest in The God’s Story Project!!!!
For prayer, please hold up the thousands of leader in TGSP, many serving at risk.
In His service, Dorothy A. Miller