Training & Equipping
Good Soil E&D equips Christ-followers to share God’s story of hope in a world of competing faiths and cultures.
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The Roots of Faith Chronological Bible Courses
Old Testament (June 18-22, 2018) and New Testament (June 25-29, 2018) courses taught at ABWE, near Harrisburg, PA. Students become certified to teach these courses in their ministries.
FREE Class Facilitator Guide
The Story of Hope - FREE curriculum guide for leading a class study in The Story of Hope. 31 interactive, engaging, FUN class sessions. 30+ free activity resources also available.
Future Good Soil Seminars
May 2018 at ABWE - Near Harrisburg, PA
May 21-22: Good Soil Basic Seminar
May 21-22: (Evenings) Hooks OT & NT Workshops
May 23: Good Soil Trainer Certification
May 24-25: BibleStorying Workshop
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Stories
Jail Time for The Story of Hope
Steve and Melanie Hammond run C.H.O.I.C.E.S. (Caring Hearts Offering Compassion Information Encouragement & Support) in Yorkshire, NY, that encompasses a pregnancy resource center, biblical counseling ministry, and after school program. Another part of their ministry is a weekly chapel time with men and women at the Wyoming County Jail. In January, they began to go through a study of The Story of Hope with the inmates.
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Good Soil Seminar Content Series
Gotta Pray the Sinner’s Prayer?
I once ministered in a town where it seems that almost everyone, at some time or another, had “prayed the prayer”—the so-called “sinner’s prayer.” Yet, very few of these people demonstrated any evidence of a genuine Christian life. Often when I shared the gospel with them, they would say: “But, I’ve already done that. I prayed the prayer!” And some would add, “But, it didn’t work for me.” If “praying the prayer” does not save a person, what does?
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Stories
Good Soil Resources Reaching Oral Learners in South Sudan
Dear Friends at Good Soil, My husband and I took your basic Good Soil and the Storytelling training courses in 2015 while we were preparing for our assignment here in the remote “bush” of South Sudan among an illiterate, unreached people group. Thank you for the excellent training. Using small discovery Bible story groups, our team is now telling our 25 selected Bible events to some new believers.
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Good Soil Seminar Content Series
Eight Words Summarize the Bible’s BIG Story
Pastor Ron Berrus was mowing his lawn—a “mindless task,” he called it—when his mind began to focus on a sermon series he wanted to preach. “How few words could be used to summarize the overall redemptive story of the Bible?” That was the question that occupied Ron as he pushed the mower back and forth around his lawn. Before he finished the lawn, a sequence of eight words formed in his mind—each of which became the basis for one sermon in a series of sermons that summarized the BIG Story of the Bible, the Bible’s metanarrative, from Genesis One through the end of the Book of Revelation.
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