Redemption Through Oral Storying: Komba’s Story
Komba’s Story: Redemption Through Oral Storying by Barry Abbott, World Team Missionary World Team missionary, Barry Abbott, tells Komba’s story, a story of redemption and renewal born from hearing the Word of God through oral storying. Genesis 26:4 “I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them [...]
Oral Storying
Oral Storytelling Among the Baka: Acts 2:39 “The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.” Scattered throughout the rainforests of southeast Cameroon, West Africa, live 50,000 to 60,000 Baka people. With only a few known believers, no organized church and [...]
Riverbanks
One Million Vietnamese Crowd Cambodia’s Riverbanks Dr. Don Nguyen escaped Vietnam on a refugee boat at age 13. By God’s grace he made it to Canada where he became a medical doctor and came to faith in Christ. God called Don back to Asia to reach the Vietnamese. With grateful hearts, Don, his wife Tabitha [...]
U.S. Director
World Team Announces New U.S. Director Click here to read the full press release. Warrington, Pennsylvania – September 13, 2010 After much prayer and an extensive search, the World Team U.S. Board of Directors announced the unanimous appointment of Dr. Kevin L. Oessenich as U.S. Director for World Team. Dr. Oessenich will take office on September [...]
Transformations
Witchdoctors and the Word: a story of tribal transformation Bon’og Poligon was a pagan witchdoctor in the Philippines. Missionaries asked him to help them translate the New Testament into the Ayangan-Ifugao language. (When there are no believers in a tribe, you have to take who you can get!) As a pagan priest, Bon’og had many [...]
A Mid-Term Story
By: Brooke Kennedy I had never crossed an ocean. I had never experienced poverty. I had never been the minority. But my culture shock didn’t come from experiencing those things. My culture shock came when I returned home to Texas after spending three months in Cambodia with World Team. When people ask me about my [...]