Orality Journal Volume 3, Number 1, 2014 | Page 61

Partnership Training for Oral Cultures

The training ends by challenging
the leaders to use these principles to
empower partnership among local
churches for evangelism and church
planting, economic development,
community and social development
(health and education), and
social justice (religious/social
persecution) projects.
During the last five years, more than
2,700 leaders have participated in
TOL trainings in India and Nepal.
And today, hundreds of oral Bible
churches in these countries are
working together to change their
communities using the partnership
principles taught.
The training is designed
specifically for areas where oral
Bible churches have been planted
and local leaders are maturing.

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While it’s helpful if the oral
leaders attending TOL training
are already part of a network of
ministries working together to
plant oral Bible churches, this is
not essential.
The reason that I, Joe Handley,
as convener of the lab on leader
development for oral learners,
chose this model to share is
because of how TOL incorporates
the best principles for developing
leaders among oral preference
learners. Their use of collaborative
learning, storytelling, drama, and
song are prime examples of what
makes their training fruitful.
Ministries familiar with the
principles and practices of oral
approaches for evangelism and
church planting can receive a free
copy of the TOL manual.