People Hear & Believe

Praise & Prayer Report # 2, February-March 2024

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God’s Story Premieres

For the month of February and a little into March our leader in Ghana, along with a God’s Story team, premiered 6 languages in several regions throughout Ghana. The Kamara and Anum Boso (Gua), have no known Scripture in their language except God’s Story: From Creation to Eternity. The Choruba (a dialect of Gonja) and Kplang language have only God’s Story and some GRN recordings. Two languages groups, Choruba and Kamara, are considered unreached people groups.

Our leader shared regarding the Choruba, “The chiefs and elders were excited to have GS done in their language. They never thought their people could be remembered.” The Kamara people were excited to have God’s Story in their own language for the first time.

After the Nankani premiere in Ghana, the team went to a restaurant to eat. The woman who spoke Nankani was so excited to hear God’s Story; she now wants to use the video at her restaurant.

In Congo Brazzaville, our leader led a team to show Ombamba in 5 villages. This again is another language that has only God’s Story and GRN recordings available for the people.

This people stayed unreached due to ethnic and language barriers.

They are discriminated against because they are from Gabon. Local missionaries have been sent to the villages preaching and teaching in the other languages, not Ombamba. This discrimination occurred for many years and has kept local churches from being planted in these villages. As a result, these

people have remained bound to their traditions and false gods.

God’s Story in Ombamba is the first material about God they have received in over 90 years. Testimonies from the showings of Ombamba God's Story in 5 villages include the following.

(Google translated from French) “It is appropriate to point out that wherever the film was shown, we noted that populations not reached by churches have an acute thirst for the  word of God. Another observation made is that the unreached and the Christians have finally found a reliable tool of communication, which is this film in the Ombamba language.

“All levels (children, young people, adults and the elderly) were very happy to follow God's message in their mother tongue. Moments of happiness and emotion (such as the moments when people agreed to follow Jesus Christ and abandon their sins and the moments of prayer of the sick) crowned this tour.

“The involvement of notables from each village in the success of this projection widely opens the doors for us in future projections…. People testified that they enjoyed watching this film which is in their Ombamba language.”

The report continued, “They understood the message well … they had joy at finally having biblical support in their Ombamba language.”

They now scheduled other film screening sessions and are requesting a video projector

to show God’s Story more. The people want training in oral communication (STS) to spread the word of God.

“In view of the above, the screening of the film story of God from creation to eternity has just sparked a spiritual awakening in the villages mentioned above. The success of this tour is the work of the Almighty. May all glory be given to him in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”

We remain humbled and blessed to hear the incredible reception people have to God’s Story. Pray for all these people to know the true resurrected risen Lord, Jesus Christ.

Raising Instructors in Peru

STS instructors Andrew and his wife Sheryl recently traveled to Peru to train others. They are raising 3 ladies from Lima to be STS trainers and to be able to tell God’s stories with power and conviction. The team then traveled to a small city in a jungle area of Peru and worked with a small congregation from the ethnic group known as the Shipibos. Most of them spoke Spanish well, but at times they needed to use translators.

Andrew writes, “The people were encouraged and enjoyed the training, and the pastor learned a new and dynamic way to share the Word of God with his congregation.”

“One miracle … the pastor told us that it was the rainy season, and if it were to rain, the roads would turn to mud, and no one would be able to make it to the church for the training. We asked the Lord to hold back the rain during the day between 4:00 PM and 10:00 PM.

So…God held back the rain every day for ten days . . . Until the day we left for the airport, and then it rained cats and dogs from 2:00 PM onward!”

YWAM & STS in Brazil

What happens when YWAM contacts you and says they want Simply The Story training in several places throughout Brazil? Well, you block out a month, round up a team of STS instructors and travel to a few places in the country and teach anyone and everyone who is hungry to learn. One of these opportunities included

training those working among the indigenous people.

Several Portuguese speakers are well on their way to becoming instructors; praise the Lord! We need to fulfill the requests that are coming in from Mozambique, as well as Brazil, for STS.

India Laws Verses God Almighty

Our leader in India shared Bible stories in a prison recently. They heard Blind Bartimeaus (Mark 10:46-­‐52) and the One Leper (Mark 1:40-­‐45). Many of the prisoners saw that the leper did not obey the law of the land or the Word of Jesus. These prisoners saw themselves as doing the same as the leper and cried despite the fact that many are in prison only for political reasons or not being able to speak the language. More than 600 prisoners heard God’s Word.

The growth of STS in India is beyond measure. Our leader can count at least 10 generations of instructors and receives at least 300 to 400 messages a day regarding the impact of the ministry.

One leader among a tribal group who has been in ministry for 20 years said that because of STS he has grown closer to God and is leading many others to Christ because people

remember the Bible stories. Just in that tribal group they are seeing the 3rd and even 4th generation of instructors. This leader sent his gratitude in tears to our leader via a message recording.

Our leader said to me, "Planting seed is easy. Seeing it to fruit is not."

Items for Prayer

In April one of our leaders will be recording a God's Story language of an unreached people group in Central Asia and leading an STS workshop. The people are a Roma (Gypsy) people group and the Bible has not been  translated  into  their language. In  fact, God’s Story will be the very first item  of any kind produced in their language. Please  pray for the   translator and the young man we are asking to narrate. Pray for protection – physically and spiritually – as they prepare to record.

In April we have an online Assistant Instructor training along with a regular in-­person training in Kentucky April 12-­‐14. An advanced and a regular training will be at our Hemet California headquarters in July. For more information, go to our website, www.SimplyTheStory.org.

A God’s Story recording team is preparing to be in Benin to record 8 languages. Pray for the story tellers, translation teams, and recording team.

We thank God for the Advanced and Full STS training in Hemet, CA recently. The results can be heard on Heart Pocket Podcast (www.HeartPocket.org).

Thank you all for praying for our leaders, the trainings, languages, and the ministry. Thank you also for the gracious donations that help us get the Word of God out.

Andrea & The whole staff of The God's Story Project (TGSP) Executive Director

“It’s Terrible…"

Praise & Prayer Report #1, December & January 2024

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“It’s Terrible in the camp of the enemy

Our leader just returned from premiering several languages of God’s Story in Cameroon. He said, “It’s Terrible in the camp of the enemy.“  “What?” I asked.  He continued saying, ”Souls are being saved so it’s terrible for the enemy!” speaking about the spiritual impact God’s Story has been having. Even the spiritual leaders, elders, and dignitaries are coming to the Lord.

Rejoicing in spontaneous dance and song in the Lord.

How to get an Audience with the King.

In some African cultures, the King, or village chief, is sought out to get permissions to show God’s Story to the whole village. During the recent premiers, our leader met with several kings and received authorization to show God’s Storybecause they saw what we do and the value for the whole village. The kings often come to the showings as well because it honors the people, the king, and their language. In one instance, the Muslim king invited the pastors to premier God's Story in front of his house and asked for prayer for his village. He received his copy of God’s Story and also translated the testimonies of those that were healed. Yet he did not want to be seen in the church.

Another lady played God’s Story for a king, and he asked for his own player. This 68 year old king was thrilled to receive his own Megavoice solar audio player. The king listened for 8 days to the player. Then he shared the player and God’s Story with those close to him. People in the village got curious, so the king played it on a loud speaker. Finally, the king built a place where people could come listen every evening. It is now a natural event every evening and people even run from market place to listen to the God’s Story.

People have heard it several times and are not tired of it.  A church has now been planted and the king, who the people call pastor, is asking for a pastor. Our ministry is now preparing for an STS training with this village and others.

Our leader continued, “Bandits attacked neighboring villages of this king. Yet they will not come to king’s village because they say God is with them” (speaking of the king’s village).

What Language to Speak?

The people of Cameroon are caught between a rock, a hard place, and the fire due to different languages!  The battles rage between those who speak English, those who speak French and those who only want Islamic languages spoken (such as Fulfulde, Arabic, etc).  

By the leading of the Holy Spirit, our leader asked many people, “Where does language come from?”  The people did not have an answer.

Through the tower of Babel story and Rev 7:9, (“After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb…”) our language premier leader allows people to discover the preciousness of their language.  After realizing the value of his own language, one village leader told the people to speak in their own language. As a result, many find God’s Story and any Bible portions in their language even more valuable than before! 

For one specific language premier of God’s Story, the original governor limited our leader from showing God’s Story. After seeing spiritual fruit, the governor changed his mind and even organized a premier launching at the governor‘s place as if it was his language. Now this governor wants God’s Story in his own language on the list for the next recording. Praise the Lord. 

The same results are happening where we premier languages. Let’s rejoice together in our Lord’s mercy.

God’s Story + Scriptures + Solar Players = Access

We learned recently that there are Scriptures available in some of the languages we premiered. However, in the remote villages where God’s Story goes, the people do not have access to those Scriptures. Internet is limited and people do not know how to find the available Bible passages either.  When we premier God’s Story, we include as much Bible on the Megavoice solar players and micro SD cards as possible. As a result, we discovered that we are bringing the tools to the people rather than waiting for the people to find the tools. Our language teams are creating access to the Gospel by making Scripture available in remote places. We call this “Project Access.”

Pastors and Leaders “We need more!”

People often use Whatsapp to communicate globally because the text messages and calls are free of phone charges. A person only needs a data connection.  So when one pastor called our leader in West Africa with a country-to-country direct call, he knew it was important.

A pastor calling exclaimed, “The tools are working! We need more!” He continued to share that the tools we left in his country are adding value to what they are doing. Here is how.

A few months ago, a team of God’s Story recording specialists and leaders traveled to Congo Brazza to record several languages and premiere a handful of other God’s Story languages recorded in 2022. In the few months of those God’s Story languages being used throughout the country, we have received multiple reports of impact and need.

The team that premieres the languages has been doing this for many years in several countries and continues to maximize the use of these tools for each language. They often plan with pastors, leaders, and village chiefs when and how to premiere each language. Our team learns what tools are used most throughout the country with each language. In some areas the God’s Story language needs to have more DVDs, and in other areas we need more microSDs, and in many remote areas, the Megavoice solar audio players work best. (Click to learn more)

When a new language of God's Story is premiered in a country, this event allows us to begin the spread of this wonderful tool across the country. Pastors, leaders, evangelists and whole villages are invited to attend the premiere. Each of these leaders who attends the premiere is given God's Story resources, DVDs, microSD cards and Megavoice players. These leaders become God’s ambassadors and take God's Story across their country. They share the resources our teams provide with other leaders who were unable to attend the premiere. Too often the demand for these resources outstrips our limited ability to provide.

We receive calls from people working among the blind, people in remote areas, rebel groups (yes, rebel leaders have called us), prison ministries, and others asking for more tools. 

Wish to help with God’s Story Premieres? (https://oralbibleresources.com/shopcart/donate.htm, select God’s StoryPremiere). 

Prayer Needs

Pray for our India team traveling soon to Sri Lanka. There is no food and no fuel in this country, along with government issues. Our team is going to see needs and how to help. They will also conduct an advanced workshop. They will also see how the 2 Oral Bible Schools planted several years ago have multiplied.

Several teams are traveling for Simply The Story training and God’s Story launchings in Europe, Latin America, West and East Africa and Asia.

Thank you all for your prayers and support.

Andrea & The whole staff of The God's Story Project (TGSP)

Executive Director

Just Do It!

Praise & Prayer Report #6, October-November 2023

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God's Story Languages Impacting Many

As 2023 comes to a close, I'm reflecting on the Lord's goodness. Even as the world returned, the best way it knew how, to normalcy, the Lord allowed us to continue working in 5 continents (still working to find a way into Antarctica 😀). Opportunities to be more involved exist.

Currently we have a God's Story recording team in Nigeria working with 7 language teams. The recording teams and teams that premier new God's Story languages spend time in the Word of God with the translators and narrators. Several people on the language teams have commented to our leaders how much they learn from God's Word. Some have even repented! This year we premiered or launched new languages in Nigeria, India, and Congo Brazza. We are making plans to premiere new languages in early 2024 in Togo, Cameroon, Congo Brazza, Ghana, and more.

Betrayed, No Friends, and Alone Finds Christ 

The following testimony came as a result of an STS storyteller doing the betrayal of Jesus by Judas in Matthew 26:47-­‐56.  After hearing and discussing the story in Matthew, a person wrote the STS storyteller about having lived through an unexpected divorce and being sensitive to betrayal. This person not only lost a spouse but all their friends too and was alone and empty. This person cried to God, only knowing the Lord religiously and culturally. God brought to this person a believer who kept sharing the words, "Life is beautiful," which allowed the person to recognize the relationship this believer has with the Lord. It opened this person's heart to have a relationship with Christ and filled the emptiness.  

This person continued sharing that even abandoned and betrayed, Jesus could carry us through. We are not alone, and death could not restrain Him.  Christ's resurrection testifies of His glory, power, and love, and we are no longer alone.  

When Not Invited, What to Do?

One of our leaders in Africa called recently to share these amazing reports. For 10 years he had reached out to a specific denomination wondering when they would finally adopt Simply The Story. After a recent training, they were amazed at the results.

Our leader started the conversation with me by saying, "It's going viral!" Curious, I asked him to explain.

Toward the end of the training with this large denomination, the attendees went out to practice their new storytelling skills. In just 30 minutes 22 people accepted Christ! The attendees returned overjoyed. Now people the students meet are inviting the students from the training to share more Bible stories.

One woman trained in the workshop continues to go out every day to share the Truth of Christ with people on the streets. This amazing evangelist met some Christians on the street. They told her that if she wanted to preach to them, they were already believers and go to church. She replied, "No problem" and then shared an illustration from our training called the Path. When she reached the part about those who run down the path, these Christians realized they were the ones running down the path, not wanting to hear the Word. This opened their hearts to hear a Bible story and to discuss the treasures together with this storyteller.

This woman also encountered a street preacher and asked him a couple of questions when he was done preaching, "What have you done? Could people tell you tomorrow what you said today?" 

The preacher replied, "No." 

The woman then told him a Bible story and had a great discussion over the word of God with him. Afterward, he exclaimed, "I need this!"

Due to space limitations, the Pastor who opened his church to the STS training did not choose this woman evangelist to attend the workshop. Praise the Lord, that did not stop her from attending.

The Pastor shared, "It's working. Everyone can give the Word. Members understand the Bible and remember it." This pastor is part of a denomination of 3000 churches. Now, several churches in the denomination are asking for Simply The Story. This truly is going viral!

Wife and Mom, Tools for Growth

One attendee from the above workshop used to argue often with her husband. After hearing the Martha and Mary story on the first day of the training, she saw herself as having a "Martha" attitude when she spoke to her husband. Touched by this, her attitude changed when she went home. Her husband quickly noticed the change and said, "This is not my wife." So he asked her what the church taught her that day. Her husband, being in the military and understanding the importance of leadership structures, heard her response and now wants to attend an STS training. 

This woman, who is also a young mother, practices Bible stories with her children. Her children told her, "If this was the way Sunday school were taught, we would never sleep through the class." Now, even when this mom is tired, her children ask her for a Bible story. 

Mexico Sees Results 

Much has happened in Mexico over the past few months. We love our partnership with By Design Visuals 
(https://bydesignvisuals.org), maker of high quality and unique flannel graphs for a new generation. By Design flannels combined with Simply The Story has opened doors for training people from numerous churches in accurate and captivating Bible stories.  Along with the multiple trainings, two STS Oral Bible Schools have been launched in Mexico. 

Another of our leaders in Mexico recently completed a series of Ministry That Multiplies sessions at her home. As a result of these MTM sessions, new STS Assistant Instructors have been raised, and storytellers have been equipped.

Prayer Points

We often have opportunities to do stories in prisons, train prisoners in STS, and start Oral Bible Schools in prisons. In one African country, we have an opportunity to train prison chaplains. Pray for these unique situations.

We praise the Lord for the recently completed Comprehensive Leadership Training (CLT) in East Africa, where experienced and budding STS leaders from 10 African nations were trained. Pray for these leaders as they return and implement what they have learned. 

In early February, a small team of STS leaders head to Asia to partner with a ministry that rescues girls from human trafficking. Our leaders will conduct in depth training with the Asian leadership team who minister to the rescued young women. Our Asian partners have shared how STS meets the key spiritual need that has helped shorten the girls' recovery time and has deeply impacted their hearts. This heart change has kept more than 93% of the girls from falling back into the lies that lured them into the hands of the traffickers in the first place. Please pray for our small team going and for the leadership of this other organization as they implement the training.

Our Hemet California Advanced training is nearly at capacity. Pray for the attendees as they prepare to grow in their learning. We often dive into more challenging passages, like Epistles, using the STS skills.

Congratulations to John and his wife. God blessed them with a baby girl. John leads our language recording teams

Congratulations to John (and his wife), our leader in East Africa, ordained as a Bishop in November.

Thank you all for your prayers and support. 

May you have a Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year. 

Andrea & The whole staff of Simply The Story and The God's Story Project (TGSP)

Executive Director

God’s Power! 

Praise & Prayer Report #5, August-September 2023

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STS Oral Bible Schools Continue Strong 

Several years ago, I sat with ministry leaders in Ethiopia who shared their desire to raise Bible study leaders strong in the Word of God.  Sending people to seminary of regular Bible schools was too costly and nowhere near their location. They thanked the leaders of Simply The Story in Ethiopia for bringing to them the solution of our STS Oral Bible Schools. Since then, many people have been part of these OBSs throughout Ethiopia. The results have been churches planted, church leaders raised and strong growth in the Lord.   

What do amazing flannel graphs, STS and Oral Bible Schools have in common? 

All are working together to help people in Mexico grow in the Lord and reach the lost. After attending an STS training in Mexico, 50 people signed up and attended the inaugural STS Oral Bible School for Latin America. These students commit to learn 296 Bible stories and to share the Bible passages with people in their local area. The deep discussions they have in the OBS allow the students glean tremendous observations and application for their lives. 

The BDMI flannel graphs are also proving to be a wonderful combination with Simply The Story and are being used in Mexico, India VBS, and Africa. The flannels draw people's attention and the STS Bible discussions reach the heart. All ages love this combination. 

Cost Effective OBSs and Needs

Our Oral Bible Schools remain highly cost effective due to the unique design. Our greatest expense tends to be the graduation because we love providing solar powered Megavoices with God’s Story, audio Bibles if available, microSDs and other tools to graduating students, depending on the region.  

Recently, one leader shared that in Northern Kenya, the Turkana people are starving due to drought. They are nomadic and there are no wells for their herds, and thus the cattle are dying and food has become scarce. When our leader reached out to 3 organizations that dig wells, they refused to help because he did not have the funds and was not a western organization.  

Despite these issues, many Turkana continue to attend our OBSs. We have chosen to help feed them 3 meals a week. This is only a fraction of the need.

Please pray for an organization that can dig the wells needed in this region and for the resources given to the OBS graduates. 

STS Seeps into the Catholic Church

Earlier this year, we did a few trainings in one of the largest countries of Africa. Several of those attending with a Catholic background wanted to tell the priests about our tools, but the instructor encouraged them not to do that. Instead, they started to simply tell the Bible stories and discuss them. Now the instructors are receiving reports how the people are spending time in Bible stories rather than reciting prayers to Mary. Many are accepting Christ as well. 

A Mind Blowing Testimony

Recently one of our leaders emailed me with a testimony that is both mind blowing how God changes hearts, and gruesome before people submit to the Lord. It comes as a result of one God’s Story premier. Some details changed or left out for security reasons.

An assistant pastor received God's Story during the premier of his language. In one of the villages where this church leader works, a lady who used to come to church asked to borrow his microSD card so that she could watch it closely at home, alone.  

A few days later she came to the assistant pastor and shared something strange. She admitted to being a prostitute and practicing magic. She also confessed to having other gruesome practices. 
She told the pastor that every man who comes and touches her bed has to give her all the money he has. Even the villagers testified how people with cars visited this lady. She asked the assistant pastor to go with her and to help solve these other gruesome practices. She wanted to be set free from this situation forever.  

The pastor was very scared. After praying all day with the lady, the next morning they went to resolve the gruesome practices. 

What a testimony to the power of our Lord and His Word bringing this woman to Himself. 

God’s Story Recordings and Premiers: Transformative 

Our leaders work hard to finish God’s Story languages and then set up the language premiers. 

Our leaders continue to share how several translators and narrators are transformed while translating and recording God’s Story languages. Our teams spend time in the Word with these precious servants, and that time impacts their hearts. These deep Bible discussions have been called, “Powerful.” 

Our teams also coordinate with  several denominations to dedicate and gift the church leaders and church goers with a limited supply of DVDs, CDs, solar audio players, and microSD cards, all depending on the location where the language is most commonly spoken. Our leaders challenge the churches to organize themselves to reach every corner and village where their language is spoken with these precious gifted tools. 

People are asking for more. 

In one language group, the militias terrorize people and challenge the government. The leader of this militia group is considered a representative of God in the area. No church wants to evangelize in these places because they are hostile to the Word of God and for security reasons. After the premier of God’s Story in this region, the leader of this militia group and some of his close leaders were informed about the movie and they wanted a solar audio player.  

The leader sent his people to the representative Pastor, who was the narrator and who was also an STS Assistant Instructor, to get God’s Story materials and to use the opportunity to organize a STS workshop. The STS / God’s Story team wrote, "We also need your prayers because we will be in front of rebels." They plan to train the rebels in STS when they return. 

Like the rest of the world, our money does not buy as much due to inflation.  God’s Story premiers, Oral Bible School graduations, trainings, and all the tools God provides are laying a strong foundation for who Jesus is and why He came. People are understanding the Truth and receiving Christ. Pray with us for the provision needed to continue to provide these resources. 

Heart Pocket Podcast 

October and November podcasts include an interview with David Witt, CEO of Spirit of Martyrdom, who uses God’s Story and the foundations of STS in their ministry. We also have an interview with Dan and me regarding the rebranding and website along with plans for the future.  Listen to more podcasts at www.HeartPocket.org. 

We continue to add more God’s Story languages to our website for people to watch and to our Youtube station. Share these links with others.  Thank you for your prayers,  Andrea & The whole staff of STS & The God's Story Project (TGSP) 
Executive Director

Long Haul, Worth the Trip

Praise & Prayer Report #4, June-July 2023

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Prayer & Praise Report # 4, June & July 2023

Long Haul, Worth the Trip

Many of us experience various projects throughout our life. Some projects are quick and others feel like an everlasting gobstopper. Several years back we set out to redo our websites and to combine God’s Story and Simply The Story under one banner. These tools work so well together, we felt they needed to be easy to find on one website.

The initial prototype presented to us by the web developers looked and felt very much like a western church with worshiper on the banner. This did not fit who God called us to be and it started a very long path to get a site that worked for our needs.  We spent time praying and testing the rebranding of our ministry, went through Covid shortly after we started the new website, experienced other serious delays, and had several tests and bug fixes.  At the same time that our website was being developed, our shopping cart also received some much needed upgrades.

All this to say, our long haul project is done and our website is now live for everyone to enjoy. We encourage you to watch Gods Story, learn about our oral Bible schools, experience the ease of ordering MegaVoice solar players, and so much more on the site. We plan to make all of our God’s Story languages available on our website, but this is a much longer process as about half our languages need to be upgraded before they are put on the site. Please be praying for this next step as we slowly roll out more and more languages.

Thank you everyone for your patience and your prayers during this time and for this project. Thank you to the kind donor who saw the value and vision and need for our new website. Thank you to everyone who helped test the site, work on the content and to our developers!

Why all the expense and sacrifice?

Our language workshops and launchings continue this month in Congo Brazzaville. Six languages are being recorded and several other completed languages are being premiered. Below are a couple of testimonies from this workshop.

Our leader wrote recently, "One of the narrators was prayed for this morning. He has been a drunkard for long time, but after a week in the Camp (working on God's Story), he said 'I must confess that I have been inflated so much, not with the food, but with the word of God. I know I am not the same anymore. My family will be surprised about the sudden change.' He was welcomed like the prodigal son back into the house."

Another post on Whatsapp shared the following, "We are very grateful to the God's Story project, we are full of testimonies from more than 50 churches planted through the God's story film.

"I asked myself a lot of questions, namely: why all this expense and sacrifice? But I now understand it was worth it. We won the whole bun village, because the village chief himself agreed to follow Jesus."

This man sums up the reason why our volunteers put their hands to the plow and don't look back. We know God is bringing thousands to Himself and we get to be part of this harvest.

Around the World in Brief

Our oral Bible schools throughout the refugee camps continue to multiply in ways and numbers we could never have imagined. The leaders are continuing to raise more leaders, and people are changed when they spend time in God‘s word together. They continue almost every evening showing God’s Story in different languages. The radio teams share Bible stories weekly in 6 different programs and languages.

India continues with many workshops and Oral Bible Schools. Our STS family in Manipur struggles to survive with all the fighting and destruction of homes. Pray for the people who have fled to the forest to avoid death.A team of STS storytellers returned from Turkey helping the earthquake victims. STS storytellers were specifically asked to come help and God worked in amazing ways.

The STS instructor teams in Europe recently finished training people in Ireland, Finland and a joint Czech-Slovak workshop.

Pray for the instructors, God’s Story teams, and Oral Bible School students as they carry God’s Word to their regions.

Thank you all for your prayers,

Andrea & The whole staff of STS & The God's Story Project (TGSP)

Executive Director

Lives Changed

Praise & Prayer Report #3, April-May 2023

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Giving Hope at the Hope Center!

An instructor and pastor with Mercy Ships, trained in Simply The Story sent us a video from their Hope Center. The video showed one of the day crew telling the Bent Woman story with translation in to the languages Pular, Wolof and Madinka. Praise God for the many who are being impacted by the Truth and receiving the Hope.

STS Radio Impact and Praises

One of our leaders in the Arab world recently shared the following testimonies as a result of people listening to STS Bible stories on the radio in East Africa. (Names and locations changed for security reasons.)

"A woman called "Nes" testified she had been using herbs for her protection, but one day after the story presentation she has given her life to Jesus and thrown away the herbs.

"A brother called "Nick" also got healing from paralyzed legs and he has been down no movement. After hearing our story presentation he called for prayer and I prayed for him. The following week he gave testimony he can move and up to now he is following our radio program very closely."

"'Zooran' ran away from her husband after a misunderstanding, but she has been reconciled to her husband after forgiving the husband. The husband called me after radio program and he told me all the story of how his wife go to their home. I called the wife and counseled them, now they’re together in marriage."

A man had problems with one of the church leaders and decided to leave the church and backslid. After hearing stories from Luke 15:11-32 about the prodigal son, our leader shared, "He and his all family are transformed, forgave the leaders in church and now he is in church."

South Sudan and East Africa Grows in the Lord

One STS instructor, who was sent to remote area in Southeast of South Sudan said, "40 people accepted Christ and we baptized. 26 who joined church." He told story of Elijah on Mt. Carmel and even a witch doctor gave his life to Christ!

Another instructor from a recent training sent us amazing pictures and gave us an update.They had a total 31 people in the training. The lead instructor along with 3 other provisional Instructors being raised conducted a successful workshop. All the attendees were able to participate.

The people expressed their gratitude and desire to learn more. Many even asked for a longer workshop than 6 days!

The lead instructor commented, "Those who cannot read testified that they can now do effective ministry through this training." He also thanked us for the prayers.

Pray for the Oral Bible Schools to be setup in this region.

PRAY for Cameroon

Over 40 communities have been trained in Simply The Story and can't wait for the next opportunity with STS. The Cameroon team is actively preparing the next session. Pray for the team members to have clear vision and be able to work together for the glory of the Lord.

Oral Bible School, Encouragement and Prayers In Kenya, the leaders do Bible study together weekly on Whatsapp. It has been wonderful to see them grow in their understanding of our Lord. Many actively participate in reaching communities showing videos, like God's Story, conducting STS training, doing in-depth STS Bible discussion on radio in several languages, and overseeing Oral Bible Schools.

Some South Sudanese beat one outreach team, a Turkana woman and two Turkana men. Please pray for these teams as they reach into some very dark areas bringing the light of Jesus Christ. Many are committed to continue the Oral Bible Schools in spite of the dangers. We have seen this in several parts of North and South Sudan.

The teams are praying for projectors and memory cards for the Turkana as well. They go to many villages. As one leader mentions, "They are in need of such nourishment since most people are eager and love seeing God’s Story film."

The pictures show several people among the Turkana in one of many Oral Bible Schools committed to learning Scripture. The people are encouraged! The leaders ask us to continue praying for the growth of this class. On this specific day there were 33 participants.

In another STS Oral Bible School, they thanked God for his protection and for finishing the Old Testament passages. They are now in the third story in Matthew. Again, they ask for prayers!

Mali Open to the Jesus

The STS team left Bamako at 6 am to drive 450 km on bad roads and arrived safely because of God's mercy. They raised assistant instructors in country who will soon lead their

own trainings and oversee Oral Bible Schools. The lead instructor wrote, "It went well people were blessed."

One of the STS workshop attendees said he is glad to share Bible stories with people and see them listen and even volunteer to retell the stories.

New Trials For New Believers

Recently one of our leaders in Mexico shared that one of the people who became a believer in their STS Bible study was admitted to the hospital with intense bleeding and blood in the lungs. Oxygen levels dropped to 70% and his situation looked dire. As well, the hospital would not allow visitors.

Miraculously, the Lord brought strength and healing to this young believer. He and his wife said, "Everything that happened to us was for us to mature in our faith." Our leader wrote, "A year and a

half of stories and they're growing in their faith. How exciting!"

As a result of the love of those in the Bible study group, now their son wants to know more of Jesus.

Thank you all for your prayers and love for the nations.

Andrea & The whole staff of The God's Story Project (TGSP) Executive Director