Your gift will enable the IMB team in the Congo Basin to bring oral Bible story training to Christian leaders to create dynamic faith, evangelism, and discipleship among the remaining sixty-nine Unengaged Unreached People Groups (UUPGS) and the under-engaged peoples scattered across the Congo Basin. Sharing Christ using a story approach has enabled oral peoples to understand salvation and truths of the Bible that they had never before grasped. The oral methodology is a reproducible, reproductive, accountable discipleship method that the hearers are able to share with others using the common oral methods they use in their culture.
Faith comes by hearing, but if the people are not being presented the truths of Christ in a learning style they comprehend, they are listening, but not hearing. Help Christians in the DRC understand God’s Word and be able to teach it to others by supporting
Discipleship Training for Oral Peoples.
After just a few programs, the manager of the radio station told the team that the response to their program, “Tell the Story,” was greater than he had ever expected—on average 11 calls per show—and interest is growing. Now, there are more people calling in and texting than they have time to respond to during the show! Some asked whether the team could lead story training sessions at their churches. Others shared how much the stories touched their hearts and impacted their lives. Many people are coming to Christ, recommitting their lives to Christ, and reconciling broken relationships because of this training and our partnership with you.
We pray for God's Word to have an increasing impact on all the people groups of our region through orality projects like this one. We thank God for visionary partners and supporters like you who fund this outreach. 
From the jagged Atlas Mountains to the vast Sahara Desert and the wildlife of the Serengeti, Africa is unrivaled for natural beauty and the hospitality of her people. Most Sub-Saharan Africans live hand-to-mouth, surviving on what they can harvest and herd, but regardless of status or wealth, most Africans share a common bond in community, family, and tribe.
Home to 2,500 ethnic groups, the region once characterized by sweeping poverty is redefining itself with bustling economies and technological enterprise. Eleven of the twenty-five fastest-growing global cities are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Whether urban-or-village dwellers, though, many Africans still try to manipulate spiritual powers through charms, sacrifices, and divination. The hope of the gospel is desperately needed.
African believers are catching a vision for sharing their faith. Sub-Saharan Africa is poised to become a tremendous missionary-sending force. Ask God to fan the flames of evangelism and cover Africa with his glory.