About
Dr. Paul & Teresa
Dr. Paul was the first missionary sent from GLOBE INTERNATIONAL, beginning two decades of church-planting and leadership training in Mexico. In 1994 Paul and his wife Teresa embraced a long-held vision for South Asia, and began work with a large indigenous church-planting mission there. Experiences training this agency’s field workers led them to search for a more effective way of communicating the Bible among low-literacy populations. They concluded that biblical storytelling, or storying, showed the most potential.
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Paul and Teresa received their M.A. in Intercultural Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary. Paul also earned a D.Min. from United Theological Seminary.
He is president of King’s Commission Ministries and the author of Telling God’s Stories with Power: Biblical Storytelling in Oral Cultures
In 2001 they developed a biblical storytelling pilot project with a two-fold purpose: first, to focus on how storytelling can be used to spread knowledge of specific Bible passages among groups of oral learners, and second, to discover how biblical storytellers can be multiplied through intentional training. This would later become Paul’s doctoral project.
In 2006 they combined biblical storytelling with adult literacy as a door-opener to unreached villages. This strategy proved to be highly successful, with as many as 100 new congregations being planted every year since then, most in villages that had been highly resistant to Christianity.
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The cost to train and send one literacy teacher / biblical storyteller to an unreached village for 12 months is just $350. Paul and Teresa’s vision is to greatly expand the number of villages that are reached with the gospel each year. Please join them by supporting this outreach with your gifts and prayers.
What is a biblical storyteller?
Biblical storytelling is more than just “telling the story.” It is a discipline in which the storyteller takes a passage from the Bible, studies and reflects on that passage, and then tells it in a way so that the hearers may best connect with the story as well.
Biblical storytellers place themselves in line with the oral tradition of the Biblical time-period, understanding that the normal mode of engaging with the Bible during this time was through the public reading of scripture or in the retelling of stories.
More than 400 storytellers are presently sharing
God’s stories in previously unreached villages.
Storytelling is a far more effective way of relaying Bible
knowledge than methods that grew from print technology.
Our Mission
To train and equip Biblical Storytellers to lead adult literacy projects in previously unreached villages, for evangelism and church planting.
Our Vision
A dedicated school campus in South Asia that provides training & development of storytellers and teachers.
Our Story
Hints soon began to emerge that all was not well. It seemed that little of what I taught was being put into practice by the workers. Slowly I began to sense the huge barrier that exists between people with a preference for oral communication and print-oriented communicators like me.
