Oral Learners Initiatives
Storytellers in a wordless world
What if it were possible to plant 1,000,000 churches in remote villages around the world?
Who would you get to pastor those churches?
OLI is developing a unique pastor-training institute designed specifically for oral learners living in remote places.
Oral Learners
- One-third of the world cannot read the language they speak.
- Another third of the world chooses to learn through audio and visual methods.
- Together, two-thirds of the world, 4 billion people are oral learners.
They will not learn about God by reading the Bible, nor will they learn through tracts or literature. They will learn only if someone tells them.
We open our mouths in parables,
revealing God’s truth to generations to come.
We are the story tellers.
We are the Oral Learners Initiatives (OLI).
Oral Learners Initiatives has over a 30-year history of reaching out to oral learners using various innovative means to spread the gospel and make disciples. Over 100 million people across five continents have been exposed to the gospel, discipled, and trained for ministry through the efforts and partnerships of OLI and its missionaries.
Perhaps the single largest unreached people group on the planet is the illiterate, or functionally illiterate. By some estimates, over half of the world’s population falls into this group.
These are people who primarily live in rural settings among oral societies. Most have a limited education which allows them to cope within their communities. However, their reading skills are so minimal they cannot read and comprehend a book, or most importantly, the Bible. It is essential to proclaim the gospel to these who must hear to believe.
It is to these who have never heard that we the missionaries of the Oral Learners Initiatives dedicate our lives and ministry.
Language Projects Around The World
Literacy is no longer a prerequsite for the call of God
Oral learners can receive an entire Bible School education delivered on a microSD card with an app for their phone, or online.
Learn more at olBi.world
Endorsements
Oral Learners Initiatives is grateful for the kind endorsements from church leaders from around the world.
"More than a billion oral learners in the world can’t read the gospel. They need to hear it."
"Oral Learners Initiatives is doing what is necessary to make sure that this desperately needy part of the global population gets to hear the good news of Jesus Christ."
"What an opportunity to tell the story of the Gospel in a manner that people can receive it!"
"I am so glad someone is taking the initiative to reach oral learners."
"You are welcome to India. Even beggars are using their cell phones!"
"Oral Learners Initiatives... bringing the Gospel to people who could never receive it in the traditional way."
"Oral Learners Initiatives, spreading the Gospel to people around the world."
"I would like to invite the Oral Learners Initiatives to Pakistan."
"I love what the Oral Learners Initiatives is doing."
"The use of a cell phone, so that people can hear the Gospel, respond, and get saved... is one of God's new methods for the next century."
"Creative, Integrity"
"I hope you will join the Oral Learners Initiatives"