Building Bridges To Oral Cultures: Journeys Among The Least-Reached

By Jim Bowman and Carla Bowman

Book Overview

Millions hear the oral gospel. Building Bridges to Oral Cultures narrates with chronological and adventurous detail, an extraordinary journey that began for Jim and Carla Bowman in the early 80s with a passion to share the Good News with a handful of the least-reached, indigenous groups in Mexico. Over the course of thirty years, their travels led to breakthrough discoveries and innovation in remote communities of traditional oral learners around the world. With time and God's guiding hand, a new comprehensive, oral communications model emerged. Effective bridges to oral cultures were developed and tested. Without eradicating cultures, speakers of the local languages are embracing the local oral arts to communicate God's Word and are reaching the lost for Him across the globe.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878084959
• ISBN13: 9780878084951
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: William Carey Publishing
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

An amazing story of God's leading of an ordinary couple into ministry throughout the world.

Jim and Carla invested their vacations to share the gospel and develop literacy with a tribe in the mountains of Mexico. Their failures in teaching literacy to this oral people group laid the foundation for an effective approach of communicating the gospel through storytelling. Jim and Carla found that a storytelling approach bridged the gap between the written word and the hearts of oral people groups around the world who are hungry for spiritual truth. A must read for missionaries working with non-literate peoples.