Selegna is a young staff woman serving with Campus Crusade in Panama.  Scheduled to be a small group facilitator at the MinistryNet Conference we held in Bangkok in November, she knew that it would take many hours of travel to arrive at the conference.  But little did she know the extra travel adventures the Lord had in store for her.  See Selegna’s story.

Thailand was chosen as the location for our conference because we knew that staff and volunteers from over 30 different countries would be attending.  For the majority of these people – who are not Americans, Canadians nor from Western Europe – travel to any international destination can be uncertain, filled with paperwork, delays, visa requirements  and generally very frustrating.  Westerners usually receive more privileges and international travel is much easier.

We chose the location of Bangkok because it is much easier and cheaper for many of our international staff to travel there than destinations in North America.  Thailand is very open ...

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QIdeas has a great video by Bobette Buster. It is an edited version of a longer talk she gives on the Art of Storytelling.

In it she talks about how the power of stories from the time of the Industrial Revolution, through the Holocaust up until today.

She emphasises that the stories that resonate with us are stories of transformation, where people become fully alive, or the converse, a cautionary tale where through their choices people become the living dead. She points out that these issues of reinvention and redemption are the issues that draw us in to stories.

She points out that from a technical point of view we have mastered every aspect of film-making. The one aspect of film-making that we have not mastered however, is story-telling. The challenge for us is to become experts in this art so that we can tell compelling stories to a world that is yearning for them

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LIfe in Hong Kong consists of plenty of commuting, and my usual habit is to listen to podcasts or music while I’m on the bus or train. Some of the podcasts I’ve recently started listening to that I enjoy and find useful are:

The Kindlings Muse: Dick Staub hosts discussions and interviews on movies, literature, culture and theology. Rev Earl Palmer is a regular guest.

Story4All: The podcast from the folks at International Orality Network. A wide range of reports, lectures and discussions on the storytelling, communicating to oral learners, and the importance of story in communicating to today’s generation. One of the best Christian podcasts out there and I can’t believe I didn’t find it earlier.

Ministry Story: David Tonen shares principles and guidelines for how to use technology, marketing and branding in ministry, or as he puts it, “helping you to tell your story.” Often very practical, manageable steps that we can take.

Intelligence Squared: Podcast of the excellent quality debates run by Intelligenc...

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Let’s start off with some basic definition for the labels across the top:

Design: The aesthetic qualities that attract us to something. The quality of the art.

Empathy: The connection to the emotions of the audience.

Symphony: The combining of different elements in harmony.

Play/Fun: The ability to stimulate a sense of enjoyment.

Meaning: The connection to a greater significance.

And now some definitions for those down the side:

Your Story: The story of the person we are speaking to.

My Story: The story of my life and experience.

God’s story: The story of God’s interaction with the world.

And now let’s ask ourselves. If this is a matrix of our evangelistic engagement with someone, how comprehensive (i.e. how many of these bases have we got covered) in our evangelism?

Perhaps a lot of our evangelism has been stuck in just the one cell in the bottom right hand corner. Perhaps we have been regularly includ...

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A video from the people at Visual Story Network, pointing out the need we have to communicate the good news through visual media. Free to share.

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