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
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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Stories
The Story of Hope in Afghanistan
One of our Good Soil Seminar graduates is now (2012) a chaplain with the U.S. Army deployed to Afghanistan. A few months ago he asked us to send him 50 copies of The Story of Hope, saying “I’m excited about the prospect of using The Story of Hope because many of my soldiers are religiously conscious but do not truly understand the gospel.
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Stories
Good Soil in Closed Countries and Open-Air Markets
The flexibility and creativity to use Good Soil materials are boundless. One missionary shares some of his stories: Extraordinary Entry. Travelling to a country currently closed to missionary visas, I was bearing gifts for a group of national missionaries who were coming from various countries to meet us. I had prayed about how to bring Good Soil materials into...
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