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

Mobilizing the Story of His Glory

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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