Welcome to Bible Storying. Thank you for joining me in an effort to make God's Word accessible, understandable, memorable and reproducible for all.

As a Bible storyer you join hundreds of others who have discovered over the past two decades the joy of learning the stories of God's Word orally and being prepared to share and teach the stories to those who need the orally prepared spoken Word to understand and remember. Then to be able to retell the same stories to others among their own people.

This has been a personal journey of discovery and learning as the very ones I went to teach instead taught me. It is indeed an interesting oral road for a literate to walk. For most of us, we are still learning and improving the many options and strategies using the told stories and learning / teaching dialogs to evangelize, plant churches, disciple, and train emerging oral leaders.

Orality is not a disease, it is a reality. And for many of the nonliterate in today's world it is the only immediate option in this generation, and for others, many generations yet to come.

If you have questions as a potential or beginning Bible storyer, write and I'll try to provide an answer either from my own experience or from among the many Bible storyers that I network with and receive reports from on a regular basis. This is not a newly discovered methodology of teaching through told Bible stories, but it is an approach that is constantly being enlarged in application and opportunity and through the combined and shared experiences of many Bible storyers who share a concern for making the Bible accessible to all peoples whether nonliterate, lacking translated Scripture, those with oral prference for learning, or resistant or hostile to traditional evangelism approaches.
                                                      
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J.O.Terry is retired from missionary service as a media consultant after 33 years in the Asia-Pacific Region and another two years as Bible Storying consultant with Oral Bible projects among indigenous peoples in Central America.

He began involvement with what is now Bible Storying in early 1988 and pioneered in the development of the present Bible Storying methodology. He told Bible stories in public and home outreach, radio and film follow-up ministries, taught Bible stories to oral leaders, many of whom lacked not only literacy to read the Bible, but also access to a Bible in their spoken language. 

Today Terry continues to provide consultation and training for new Bible storyers, and has continued to prepare Bible Storying models for various ministry needs, and write books on Bible Storying methodology. He currently publishes the quarterly Bible Storying newsletter.