Empowering Women of Oral Cultures with the

Memorized Word of God in Story

Women form a majority of non-reading societies. They are often the least educated and the most marginalized of their people groups. The missions world has not addressed this huge population sector in a significant way. Women of these cultures have received information for millennia through oral tradition, singing and dancing the stories at ceremonies. Tradition, values and belief systems learned orally from childhood shape these women, modify their behavior and shape their destiny.

Biblical narrative is a key to empowering women of oral cultures. Scripture stories provide encouragement, change of worldview, confrontation of false religion, assurance of truth, conviction of sin, hope and comfort and answers to life issues, problems and needs.

Bridges for Women training features 120 stories of women in Bible times in 9 collections.

The Essentials
Motherhood
Suffering and Sorrow
Comfort
Wisdom
Love
Infertility
Women who followed Jesus
Cunning and Manipulation...negative moral examples

 

Bridges for Women training helps develop a storytelling ministry among women of oral cultures.
Rather than through abstract lecture, teaching or sermons they learn best through example and illustration provided by the characters in a story. Bible stories about women provide models of good and bad behavior, reflect every human condition, every strength and weakness in the character of women.

... Bible stories are presented as a journey seen through womens eyes. Stories such as: Miriam’s Song, Maacah Queen Mother, Tamar the Widow, Jael a Tent Dweller, The Treachery of Jezebel, Shiphrah and Puah Midwives of Egypt, Huldah the Prophetess, The Queen of Sheba, The Witch at Endor, The Woman at the Well of Sychar, Perfume from the Alabaster Jar, Lydia Seller of Purple Cloth