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SCRIPTURE IN USE

June Bulletin Mission Moment
Scripture In Use

For over 30 years Scriptures in Use (SIU) has equipped local and indigenous believers and leaders around the world to reach their communities with the Gospel. By encouraging believers to use oral communication strategies in their heart language, SIU has empowered national leaders to reach the unreached in more than 70 countries. God continues to do amazing work through local believers with over 90,000 oral Bible churches planted. Scripture In Use is making disciples of oral learners by reaching the unreached through storytelling. What is an oral culture? Oral cultures are those who learn and pass on their history, heritage, faith and culture through oral communication. This comes through the oral arts of storytelling, drama, dance, and music and song. 

SIU uses “The Bridge Method” that has three (3) steps. (1) Train: SIU uses three-to-five day trainings to equip indigenous ministries and networks with orality tools to reach their own people and neighboring people, guiding them in the use of scripture storytelling for disciple making and church planting movements, (2) Coach: SIU continues the relationship by mentoring and guiding our partners as they wrestle with the questions and challenges they face as they implement the strategy and tools, and lead their networks, and (3) Multiply: SIU has trained leaders in more than 60 countries, and has helped launch many indigenous led movements. These movements are not dependent on SIU as they take root and grow around the world SIU’s partners train their own workers as well as other ministries that are reaching unreached people groups. The impact of this approach is new movements of oral Bible churches with disciples making disciples and church planting churches. Organic movements are happening!

Oakwood Christian Church is proud to help Micah Foreman, representative of Scriptures in Use. You can read more about this ministry at: www.scripturesinuse.org.