What is OneStory?
There are huge barriers keeping the unreached of our world — more than 2 billion people — from hearing the gospel.
- There are 5,500 people groups for which there is either no Scripture or only fragments.
- Bible translators believe that, using traditional methods, it will take at least 150 years of translation work to produce the Bible for these people groups.
- Even when this huge translation task is accomplished, more than 70 percent of these people can't read, or don't see an inherent value for reading this book they have been given. They are oral learners, communicating through audible stories, songs, proverbs, parables, poetry and history.
These staggering realities have been used by God to grab the attention of five major missions agencies: Campus Crusade for Christ, the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Wycliffe International , YWAM (Youth With A Mission), and TWR (Trans World Radio).
These agencies have launched a partnership known as OneStory to bring God's Word to every unreached people group through Bible stories conveyed by word of mouth. This will lay the groundwork for church-planting movements.
"Sequentially arranged Bible stories will be systematically translated, checked, and recorded. As these oral Bible stories disseminate among a people group, God's word will travel unhindered by either closed borders, security threats of printed materials, prison bars, or other barriers. T
his pattern ignited the early church so that within 40 years, there was a church in almost every major city of the Roman Empire. I believe it can happen again in our generation."
Steve Douglass
President, Campus Crusade for Christ