BRAZIL—Laura and Lynell use The Story of Hope in their evangelism and discipleship ministries in Campo Grande, Brazil. Here are three "Good Soil" stories resulting from their ministries: Marilene, whom Lynell met in a mechanic's shop; Eva, who asked Laura to lead her through a Bible study; and Paulo, Eva's son (business man) who became convicted of his sins through a conversation with Laura in Eva's home. →
When all of the steps in the process of tilling and planting evangelism have been taken, the faithful gospel witness knows that it is time to reap. Knowing full well that it is God who provides the increase, the witness carefully clarifies and personalizes the message, and then persuades his or her friend to come to Christ. →
COLOMBIA—As I was preaching through The Story of Hope events, on a recent Sunday event #36 (Jesus' Return for Believers) was presented. During the invitation one lady admitted that she was not ready if the rapture was to occur soon, and she trusted Christ as Savior that day. →
HONG KONG - PHILIPPINES—Lea is a Filipino who lives in Hong Kong. She returned to the Philippines to visit her family. She had gone to the Philippines in the summer, and tried to share the gospel with her family without any success. This time she did not go with the same plan to share the gospel, but she did bring her Story of Hope book that the church had been studying in Sunday School in Hong Kong. →
VENEZUELA—An inspector for the the Venezuelan Ministry of Education hears the gospel as presented by a Pemon Indian pastor using The Story of Hope. →
COSTA RICA—In July of 2010 I embarked on a “police training agreement journey” with a group of 36 Costa Rican officers from five different police bases (Guadalupe, Moravia, Coronado, San Pedro and Curridabat). Every Tuesday we would meet for one hour to study The Story of Hope (TSOH), followed by three hours of tactical training. →
Avery and Mark—excellent story tellers—were on a mission to motivate and recruit more story-telling disciple-makers when they wrote this book in their down-to-earth storytelling style. And rightly so. In this postmodern world more people need to either read this book or go to an ION (International Orality Network) conference and get on board with this appropriate methodology for sharing Christ and making disciples. →
CAMEROON—Jeanne is a neighbor of mine who has a severely handicapped boy named David. She herself was also born with spina bifida. These conditions are difficult enough to deal with in the North American culture, but here in Africa these things are even more challenging. →
UKRAINE—A car showed up at the clinic in New Kubanka from a village I had never heard of--Shamanovka. In Ukraine it is a big deal for villagers to travel between villages, having to hire a car. These people expressed such urgency in their request for me to go see some patients in their village who have no access to health care. They had heard about the free clinics from relatives. →
SOUTHEAST ASIA—"We can't find anyone to teach us the Bible," Naraa emailed her sister Saraa. Saraa was a Christian who helped translate the Mongolian Bible, and our friends, Entners, knew Saraa but had never met Naraa. Naraa never had time for Bible study in the capital city of Outer Mongolia, but now that they were 'alone' in Manila due to a job transfer, they wanted to take Saraa's advice to find someone to teach them the Bible, including someone to teach Bagaai, Naraa's husband, English. →
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