Noah

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Noahs Ark

• Don't miss the boat.
• Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the
  Ark. (Be proactive)
• For safety sake, travel in pairs.
• Stay fit. When you're 600 years old, someone may
  ask you to do something really big.
• Remember that we are all in the same boat.

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Literacy Evangelism International

• Beyond ILTI
• 2010
• International Literacy Training Institute
• Tulsa, Oklahoma

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A New Exodus

• Exodus 223 310

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Beyond ILTI

• Review Global Opportunities
• Identify Personal Opportunities Call
• Sharing your vision for the future

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How far have we come in fulfilling Christs
Commission?
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The Opportunity

• Current status of evangelism discipleship?
  (Response to Matt. 28119)

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6.8 billion population
2 billion Christians
1/3 of the world
4 billion people yet without Christ
2/3 of the world
200 million Passionate Believers
1.8 billion Christians lack discipleship
1.8 billion Christians lack discipleship
1.8 billion Christians lack discipleship
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The greatest missionary is the Bible in the
mother tongue. Cameron Townsend
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Our Opportunity

• What have been the greatest obstacles to Gods
  Word?

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• Historic Obstacles to Gods Word in each
  millennium
• and how they were overcome

Bible translation into common languages was begun
Bible unavailable to common people
2nd Millennium
1st Millennium
Problem of Apostolic Authority
Canon of Scripture was established
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Our Opportunity

• Historical obstacles to Gods Word?

• What is the current status of Bible translation?

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6,809 languages total
Bible (NT) translation has been done in
2,000-some languages
4,000 languages still do not have Bible
translation
but they represent only 5 of the worlds people
representing 95 of the worlds people
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99 of the worlds people have some or all of the
Bible in a language they speak
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______The Flat World_____

• Flattners
• The Web, Open-Sourcing, Offshoring, etc
• A world moving at the speed of light
• A digital age
• The UNFLAT world
• Being left behind at a faster pace
• Illiteracy is widening the gap

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The map of poverty
and the map of unreached people groups
largely coincide with the map of illiteracy in
the 10/40 window.
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In this 10/40 window
¾ illiterate
2/3 of the worlds people
poverty disease
false religions
only 5 of missionaries go there
a small are Christian
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Our Opportunity

• Historical obstacles to Gods Word?

• Current status of Bible translation?
• What is the greatest opportunity of opening Gods
  Word in our time?

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3rd Millennium

• Greatest Obstacle to Gods Word in our time
• and how to overcome it

Illiteracy keeps 2 billon from Bible access
Literacy ministry is the answer
2nd Millennium
Bible translated into common languages
1st Millennium
Canon of Scripture was established
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Illiteracy impedes the use of Gods written Word
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No obstacle to Gods Word so widespread among so
many as illiteracy No ministry more needed by
more people than literacy No strategy so
relevant, so holistic, so grassroots and
far-reaching as Bible- content, church-based
literacy
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Our Callbring down the global giant of
illiteracy

• In every nation, people, tribe and tongue
• Working in and through local churches
• With Bible content materials
• Mobilizing men women
• Preparing the way for Christs return

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Opportunity to shape history of Literacy Missioin

• Use 228 Bible-content primers
• Lead TTWs Literacy Institutes
• Use Bible-content ESL curriculum
• Develop primers in new languages

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The history of LEI continues to be written in

• India, Mongolia, China
• Brazil, Peru, Guyana
• Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Ivory Coast,
  Rwanda, Tanzania
• Canada, United States
• ....

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Would that this one book were in every language,
in every land, before the eyes and in the ears
and hearts of all men.

• Martin Luther

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Our Call

1. How do we respond to the call for evangelism,
   discipleship and church planting through literacy?

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Beyond ILTI

• Sharing your Opportunity Call Vision for the
  future

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Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans
will be established. - Proverbs 163
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Sharing your Vision for the future

• Assignment 1 page typed
  Presentation Friday morning
• Include Top 3 goals
• Based upon your strengths
• SMART Goals Specific, Measurable , Attainable,
  Realistic, and Time sensitive
• Turn Talk
• Email to pattyhickman_at_literacyinternational.net

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Literacy Evangelism International

• Beyond ILTI
• 2010
• International Literacy Training Institute
• Tulsa, Oklahoma

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Riddle

• What is more Righteous than GOD,
• More evil than the Devil,
• The Rich need it,
• The Poor have it, and
• If you eat it you will die?

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Riddle

• What is more Righteous than GOD,
• More evil than the Devil,
• The Rich need it,
• The Poor have it, and
• If you eat it you will die?

Answer NOTHING