So you have found out that spoken information is as important to your community as written information. So what do you do about it? How does it affect your mission, outreach, and your engagement with Scripture?
Clyde Taber and the Mission Media U team are offering new, live Fall MMU courses. We paused MMU for 1 ½ years, but are relaunching next month. We would love for you to join one or both of the groups. In addition, would you send this information to three people (mission practitioners, pastors, leaders) you think would benefit from our upcoming five-week learning groups?
These are the courses we are offering:
A Holy Precedence When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a… Read More »Comprehending the Interpreter
“In the last days the mountain of the LORD’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.” (Isaiah 2:2)
“Miss, I forgot my house key. And my sister won’t be home from work until after midnight.” We scrambled to figure out a plan to get this Somali teen home safely from tutoring. My husband, Steve, decided to swing by the meatpacking plant on his way to taking kids home, to see if our young friend could acquire a house key from her sister on her work break.
Steve and three teens from three distinct ethnolinguistic groups sat together in the parking lot of our local meatpacking plant and waited. Each of those kids had a family member in the plant. Their families had relocated to Greeley, Colorado because the meatpacking plant would offer them employment–ASAP. They didn’t need to speak English or be literate to start supporting their families as they resettled after various long and difficult refugee journeys.