Volume 2, Number 2, 2013
Reviewed by Dr. Tara Rye, the Dean of Women at Grace University in Omaha, NE. She is passionate about communicating the Word of God in a way people understand. She is a published author, an active speaker, and has served on short-term missions in several countries. She also uses biblical storying weekly at a homeless shelter and on the radio.
Keith Williams spent ten years serving as a church planter in Asia before launching Mobile Advance, a ministry of WEC International. Keith also serves on the steering team of the Mobile Ministry Forum (MMF).
Erica Logan is the Managing Director for Heart Sounds International (Operation Mobilization) helping ignite culturally relevant and biblically appropriate worship especially in places where Christ followers are restricted, persecuted or unknown. As an ethnomusicologist, Erica serves as an arts consultant and workshop facilitator for contextualizing the Gospel through indigenous expression.
Joe Handley graduated Azusa Pacific University and then began working at the University’s Office of World Missions. After working on his masters, the Lord called he and his wife to Rolling Hills Covenant Church in 1998, where Joe served as the Global Outreach Pastor. In June of 2008, Joe answered the call of God to become the new president of Asian Access; he is currently completing his PhD at Fuller Seminary.
Mark Getz is a lay Bible teacher from central Illinois who for the past several years has been collaborating with professional storyteller John Walsh. They have been refining strategies to communicate the stories of the Bible within the basic storyline of Scripture using storytelling and active learning techniques.
W. Jay Moon is Associate Professor of Church Planting and Evangelism at Asbury Theological Seminary. From 1992-2001, he was an SIM missionary among the primarily oral Builsa people in Ghana, West Africa, and focused on church planting and water development. His two upcoming books discuss oral discipleship.
Gilles Gravelle is Director of Research and Innovation with The Seed Company. His research and writing focuses on translation, missiology, technology, and strategic planning with the goal of improving mission and ministry models in general and Bible translation practice in particular. His PhD is from Free University, Amsterdam. He bases out of his home in Seattle.
Durwood Snead heads the international work of North Point Ministries in Alpharetta, GA. There he leads a worldwide ministry that mobilizes thousands, helping children at risk and creating churches that are effective at reaching their cultures. Durwood travels extensively, teaching and strategizing with ministries around the world. Before joining North Point in 2001, Durwood spent 26 years in business, including executive assignments at CMD Group and AC Nielsen. He is a graduate of the University of Richmond and has an MBA from the College of William and Mary in Virginia.
Chuck Madinger has spent 27 years in missional vocational ministry and serves universities and seminaries teaching in the US and abroad. He has launched three mission and consulting organizations, helping to reach the Oral Majority with partners in over 20 countries, and is now completing a second doctorate in communication at the University of Kentucky.
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