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Engaging Churches - West Africa
High Point Fellowship of Splendora, Texas, asks you pray for the volunteer teams serving among the P people of Mali...
Senufo Supyire of Mali (SIN-oo-fo su-PEER-ay)
In February, you were asked to pray for the Senufo Supyire Team to have wisdom in helping families give their children a good physical foundation as well as a solid spiritual one. Join them in giving thanks as they write: "In April, a Senufo Supyire believer in village N shared that her grandchild was sick...
Swirl People of East Asia
Praise the Lord for answering your prayers! The workers’ trip to the villages was very successful in seed sowing. Several people heard the Gospel for the first time ever in their mother-tongue...
Africa Support Center Teams
Pray for three Communication Team members who will be in Madagascar for most of the month of March.
Zerma of Niger (ZAR-mah)
As you have prayed, missionary Kimberly Cain has continued to story the Bible chronologically in F's compound in recent weeks. As Kimberly prepared for volunteers, she asked F if the other women in the neighborhood would like to learn how to knit and hear stories from God's Word...
Oral Peoples Strategy: West Africa
Kacy of the Kita Malinke Team shares: “Yesterday we spent the day with our dear friend B. We hadn’t seen him in forever, and called him to come over and hang out...
Jacob: Reading the doctor's signature is the least of your problems
Literacy skills predict a person’s health status more accurately than age, income, employment status, education level, or race and ethnicity.
"Reaching the Marginalised"
UNESCO's latest Education for All report says that many of the gains in literacy that have been made since 2000 are threatened by the global economic downturn. "Reaching the Marginalised" gives detailed information by region of the world and by country. Available in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish.
Basic Reading Skills and the Literacy of the America's Least Literate Adults
The (U. S.) National Center for Education Statistics examines the "profile and [basic reading skills] of America's least literate adults." The following study from the National Assessment of Adult Literacy shows that the majority of people...
Scripture Distribution
Report on the world distribution of scriptures by Bible societies.
Job Stories—Evil, Pain, and Suffering
Job Stories contains the main story from the earlier part of the book of Job and summarized accounts of the long speeches that make up most of the book. It illustrates one way to take material that is not a story and present it in a form that oral people can more easily grasp.
Oral Bible School, The: Hope Stories for Women
These 15 stories were originally chosen for use with women’s groups in southeast Asia where armed conflict, political upheaval, and economic struggles have had destructive impact...
God and Woman (English)
God and Woman is a selection of 95 biblical stories chosen for introducing women in Central and South Asia to the God of the Bible. The introduction describes the typical worldview of Muslim and Hindu women. God and Woman retells each of the stories and offers extensive helps, including how to set up each story, key truths to emphasize, and discussion questions. Though originally designed for women, this resource is easily adaptable for working with men or a mixed audience.
