Orality Journal Volume 3, Number 1, 2014 | Page 49

Mobilizing the Story of His Glory 47 shown how to put videos onto compelling, contextualized mobile phones she translated outreach content for the and created a unreached they live We must help believers Bible story video among. and put it on her create compelling, phone in less than contextualized outreach Media ministries content for the unreached need to move beyond four hours! they live among. “giving them a fish” Within several to “teaching them to fish” when it comes to media days these videos had gone viral in her village. Everyone creation and distribution. I am had them on their cell phones. thrilled to see groups like 10X Within a few weeks, Wängarr Productions taking the initiative heard her neighbor’s children to lead trainings in mobile media in the playground reciting Bible production in Asia (Khazoyan, stories. When Wängarr asked 2012) and love Distant Shores their mother how they learned Media’s Open Bible Stories them, she was told, “every night approach to enabling DIY Bible my children fight over my cell media creationvi. Some examples phone because they want to of this kind of work in the listen to and see the Bible stories secular world includes groups before they go to bed.” like Witness, which is training citizens to use their phones to A huge percentage of the global capture and report abusesvii and Church can now create its the Guardian Project, which has own outreach media using the developed an app that walks camera phones in their pockets. users through the process of An equally large portion of the creating great video stories with unreached is constantly carrying their Android phoneviii. a media player embedded in the C. Social Media phones in their pockets and they Social media, video and games love to watch videos and listen to recordings in their heart are three services that mobile language. The Church can and device owners spend the most must harness the simplicity and time using. Creating truthubiquity of this new Gutenberg filled mobile games, while press of the poor and illiterate. being something that is an We must help believers create incredible outreach need and