Animation as an art form, communications tool, and popular media phenomenon is in great demand throughout the world. In 2025, KPop Demon Hunters became the most-watched original title in Netflix history, with 325 million views. Recently, the animated Disney film Zootopia 2 became the ninth highest grossing film of all time.Read More »The Power of Animation
Once again, we have the privilege of offering a live four-day workshop about Scripture Engagement, teaching some principles and working together on real life issues you may face in your church or project.
Most churches don’t talk about ‘Scripture Engagement’ – they talk about reading the Bible, and about discipleship, or evangelism. Years ago, many Bible translators assumed that translating the Bible would lead to people using it.Read More »Introduction To Scripture Engagement
In today’s world, stories move at the speed of video.
Whether you’re sharing a ministry update, documenting a testimony, promoting an outreach event, or telling the story of what God is doing on the field, video is one of the most powerful tools we have. But great storytelling doesn’t happen by accident—it takes intention, skill, and practice.
That’s exactly why we created the Intro to Video Production Training Track. And despite the name, this track isn’t just for beginners.Read More »Lights, Camera, Calling: Why Our Intro to Video Production Track Is for You
24-30 DE AGOSTO
«Construyendo comunidad en una era digital»
Building Community in a digital age!
Escrituras, Medios, difusión, Comunidad. Es un evento realizado durante el mes de Agosto, donde reunió a muchos ministerios de Peru y latino Ameirica que estan trabajando en la traduccion de la Biblia en su propia lengua. Durante 5 días, se realizaron talleres de como usar la tecnólogia para el desarrollo de la distribución de Biblia en cada region y comunidad.
Coming August 24-30, 2025 in beautiful Peru!
Sign up now! This dynamic conference will be in Spanish.Read More »EMDC Peru 2025 August 24-30 in Spanish!
Yes I have a phone and yes I use it all the time, but am I using it for good and excellent purposes? Came across this great resource that will help you unlock the full potential of your mobile device to enhance your ministry. The Mobile Ministry Forum free micro-course entitled, “Introducing People to Jesus Using Your Mobile Phone,” it provides practical tools and strategies to help you effectively use mobile technology to expand your outreach and foster deeper connections.Read More »How can I Introduce People to Jesus Using My Mobile Phone?
Clyde Taber and the Mission Media U team are offering a live Winter MMU course. We would love for you to join this group. Would… Read More »MMU BIBLICAL LANGUAGES BOOTCAMP: GREEK
Learn how media can accelerate disciple-making where you live.
Enroll in the February 27 – March 24, 2025 online class now.
Early registration ends February 13.
https://www.missionmediau.org/foundations-of-digital-engagement-strategies/
It’s Just Life
Read More »MMU FOUNDATIONS OF DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIES COURSE
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:
SIL’s International Media Services is pleased to announce a 2023 publication written by Andreas Ernst, the IMS Training and Equipping Director.
Read More »2023 Publication: Translating the Bible into Media
Cross-Cultural Mentoring Workshop at EMDC 2024 Thailand
My attending the Cross-Cultural Mentoring Workshop was the highlight for my leadership training this year. This is something that I have been waiting for to attend for a year. In 2023, I attended a session of Dr. Sunny Hong at EMDC Thailand. This was the first time I got a chance to hear her deep knowledge about the diaspora and refugees.Read More »“The Cross-Cultural Mentoring Workshop gave freedom to be me, while the society plays with other rules.”
ABR MEDIA is organizing a REGIONAL CONFERENCE to take place in ARUSHA, TANZANIA in AUGUST. There will be three opportunities to gather, learn together and to NETWORK as we continue in MEDIA ministry here in SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA .
Read More »ABR Media Conferences August 2024 – SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
We have extended the early-bird registration rate window for our EMDC 2024 Conference Thailand for one week until March 8th, 2024.
Early registration is only $80 and free to many who qualify!*
Read More »EMDC Thailand 2024 Early-Bird Discount Rate Extended!
The Bible Engagement Workshop is a free online virtual learning hub by SGM Canada where participants are equipped to receive, reflect, remember, and respond to the Bible. The Bible Engagement Workshop takes the form of video blogs using PowerPoint presentations that are ±13 minutes long.
Because everyone is unique, people engage with the Bible in different ways. So, the workshops teach a variety of Bible engagement approaches suited to visual, auditory, reading/writing, or kinesthetics learners. In addition to teaching Scripture engagement practices, the workshops provide instruction on the principles and paradigms of Bible engagement.
The mission of Faith Comes By Hearing revolves around making God’s Word accessible to everyone. This commitment drives them to tirelessly expand the reach of Scripture’s life-saving message. They achieve this by producing Audio Bibles in various languages and making them freely available.
Research shows that seventy percent of the global population primarily learns through listening. This majority, particularly in oral cultures without written systems, grasps the essence of the Bible most effectively when they hear it spoken aloud. As a result, in these oral communities, faith is nurtured and propagated through the act of hearing.
A group of Old Testament consultants are developing a series of aids to help translators prepare oral/performance and written translations of psalms that incorporate characteristics of local poetry and which will result in several products – both an exegetically-accurate written translation as well as a number of oral performances of the psalm or portions thereof.
For each psalm, there are four stages to the process, which moves from oral to written to performance. The hope is to capture the creativity of the translators through first preparing an oral translation and performance-excerpts, and then for this translation to be honed (to bring it closer to the Hebrew in terms of accuracy) after a careful study of the exegesis of the text.
Medical Outreach for Scripture Engagement Sustainability (MOSES): A Case Study on the MOSES methodology in South Asia
Submission for the 2021 Bible Translation Conference
After decades of tireless sowing by pioneers around the globe, national movements to translate the Scriptures into non-dominant language groups have truly sprung to life in the Global South. With hundreds of translations being published in the last twenty years, recent data shows that many of these Bibles do not have much of an audience. In many cases, the problem has become people-less Bibles rather than Bible-less peoples. Our team was convinced that the remedy to the lack of demand for the book is to introduce people to the Author. The Medical Outreach for Scripture Engagement and Spiritual growth (MOSES) approach adapts the Leader Source spiritual formation program design methodology to working with local stakeholders to build bridges to the Bible through God encounters that meet the felt needs of the community.
All of effective Eurasian Kingdom initiatives are built on two key elements: 1) Effective Communications 2) Effective Collaboration – How we work together. Long-time EMDC champion, Phill Butler, is an acknowledged expert in these fields. His book, Well Connected, the global “bible” of partnership and network development is now in a dozen languages. Phill has just completed a great new resource website with 140+ articles and 30+ videos on these topics.
Story group in West Africa
What makes a good oral Bible story? There are many ministries that develop oral Bible stories, and they have varying approaches on the process of developing an abbreviated and simplified story from a biblical passage(s).
Good story development follows four principles embraced by many in the story community of biblically faithful to the textual Bible passage(s), orally reproducible (meaning that that story can be easily learned and told by others), naturally told and the story is appropriate to the culture, often expressed in the use of key terms understood by the local community. In addition, a good oral Bible story based on a Bible passage(s) has a plot or story line that keeps the listener interested and engaged. The actual storyteller can also influence the quality of the story experience to the listener
When developing an oral Bible story, a ministry may embrace common elements practiced by other story practitioners (e.g., testing the story with those who don’t follow Jesus) while having nuances (e.g., use of technology) in the story development process that is unique to the ministry.
So what makes a good oral Bible story? Two important aspects are fidelity to an established process and people embracing the story.
While this blog departs a little from the normal EMDC topics it has been dealt with in the past. An Introduction to Healing the Wounds… Read More »Trauma Healing – Strength from Weakness