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The Global Orality Mapping Project is a tool that intends to better understand the orality reliance of the world’s UPGs.
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A journal, bi-monthly webinar, and forum about orality with global leaders in the field.
Join our next webinar/ Ezekiel Ajibade, Narrative Preaching, on July 09, 2025, at 8:00 pm (Manila) / 8:00 am (EST).
OralityResources.International is an orality-focused, open-access publisher.
In addition to our in-house publications, we are building a collection of resources about orality.
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Orality is more than just storytelling!
Its effectiveness is supported by solid research and studies. One of our key aims is to see orality recognized and established as a formal academic discipline within the field of Missiology.
Organizational & Academic Research
Global impact research alliances
- Christian universities, seminaries and mission organization partner to produce highest quality research with an orality focus.
- Students pursuing advanced degrees.
- Mission organizations that require more research expertise.
Global Round-Tables
- We gather exemplary practitioners and thought-leaders with a shared ministry focus (refugees, trafficked, theological ed/training, etc.).
- We address current issues and produce resources through interactions, papers, assignments, etc., involving a blend of seasoned experts and emerging leaders.
Publication & Resources
We engage in conceptual foundational research and publishing
- We sponsor faculty, graduate students, mission organizations and businesses to discover best approaches to high impact training and strategies.
- We promote and digitally publish work as resources for those addressing the needs of the Oral Majority. Our eBooks feature hyperlinks to original resources, we aim to introduce the authors with short videos and our publications are relieved under Createve Commons license for open access (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
Orality training is inspired by Jesus’ teaching methods. From workshops and certifications to MA and PhD!
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Master of Arts
Orality Studies
Stay tuned. We are in the process of collaborating with Kairos University to offer a Master of Arts focusing on Orality Studies.
Professional
Certification Program
Join our 4-module professional certification program in orality strategies that culminate in a practical project titled Holistic Communication: Teaching like Jesus.
ThM/PhD
in Orality Studies
Since 2022, we have been offering this unique opportunity for a high-level academic degree in orality through our partner, the Asia Graduate School of Theology (AGST).
“This course has unleashed my creativity like never before! I am now able to explore resources so much more, and my students have noticed the difference. They often come back to thank me for the class!”
Allan Ribeiro
Teacher & Evangelist
Visit our Orality.Academy, contact us or email [email protected] for more information about enrollment, scheduling, and pricing.
“I learned so much about proclaiming the Truth in a way that can be easily understood, processed, and shared with others.”
Andrew Ramon Tiaga
Some of our Collaborating Partners
Working together is what we do. It’s in our name and our DNA.
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Teamwork at the Core
Beyond partnering with other organizations for training and research, teamwork shapes everything we do. We also collaborate as consultants and co-sourcing partners.
Consultation
We work with churches, schools, and mission organizations to bring the power of oral communication strategies to new levels. Consultants come from a network of certified orality specialists with services ranging from:
- Exploration meeting: 2-3 hours for a feasibility approach to a project or program.
- Progressive consultation: seasoned assistance with planning, implementation, and evaluation & reporting.
Co–Sourcing
Co-sourcing combines the advantages of outsourcing and in-house solutions:
- It provides access to external expertise without completely giving up internal control over processes.
- Co-sourcing takes advantage of the expertise of the outsourcing organization (I-OS) without immediately hiring more staff internally for an initial project.
ORALITY collaborators is a ministry registered in the Philippines under the legal name Institutes for Orality Strategies, Inc. (I-OS). It is a collaborative effort to empower the excluded majority through training & research. I-OS equips communicators of the transforming Word using oral principles & methods, the same way Jesus taught and continues to speak today.
Meet the Team
The core team of orality experts and practitioners.
Charles B. Madinger, PhD
CEO/President
Résumé
A pastor given a second call building global communication strategies through-out the Global South. He leads the Orality Collaborators team from Manila specializing in orality training, research, and collaboration.
Chuck studied at Fuller Theological Seminary (DMin) and the University of Kentucky (PhD) teaching in schools, churches, and conferences. Roce and Chuck share two daughters and four grandchildren.
Roce Anog Madinger
Résumé
Rocelyn Anog-Madinger is a long-standing Levite and missionary of LCC who currently serves with SIL Philippines as an ethnoarts leader and with the Orality Collaborators.
She studied Music Education at the University of the Philippines, taught students ranging from preschool level to high school at MGC-New Life Christian Academy, and at the bachelor’s to the master’s level at ASCM.
In 2009, Roce sensed a call to serve cross-culturally, and entered the Payap University, Thailand program in Ethnomusicology and the Arts. Since then, she has visited and encouraged underserved and marginalized minority language groups serving their church and/or community needs. She helps communities appreciate their own unique, God-given culture and arts for Kingdom expressions. She and her husband Charles live in Manila, serve in their home church – Lighthouse Christian Community, Alabang, and collectively have worked in more than 50 countries around the world.
Danyal Qalb, PhD
Research Director
Résumé
Danyal is a German who grew up in Brazil and has worked in the Philippines since 2007.
He is the first to earn a PhD in Orality Studies and currently serves as Research Director with Orality Collaborators.
In this role, he oversees the development of the Global Orality Mapping Project and teaches orality principles and methods through the Orality.Academy around the world.
Danyal is the co-founder and editor of the OralityTalks Journal and started the OralityResources.International publication.
Jong Angeles
Director of Training and Education
Résumé
Jong Angeles, together with his wife, have been cross-cultural workers in Southeast Asia for over two decades now and were engaged in medical ministries, church planting, and training church leaders.
He is a dentist by profession and was trained in the Career Missionary Program at Asia Center for Mission in the Philippines and later on took his MA in Intercultural Studies from Asia Pacific Theological Seminary in Baguio City.
He is currently enrolled in the Th.M./Ph.D. Program of AGST in Orality Studies. Jong is also the Director of Training and Education with the Orality Collaborators.
What motivates us?
Problem & Solution
We live in a broken world full of people who need a word of transformation. The message of healing can often be muddled—offering some truths, partial truths, and illusions. Yet, the Living Word alone holds the power to heal our brokenness. Utilizing oral methods rooted in hearing the Living Word brings healing and holistic transformation.
The Orality Gap
8 out of every 10 people prefer and rely on oral communication. They do not understand the Kingdom message because of our communication choices.
All remaining unreached people groups are oral.
The majority of grassroots leaders need training in using oral principles and methods.
The poor and marginalized populations bear the brunt of our broken world and do not have access the Kingdom message in ways THEY understand.
The Training Gap
Bible schools and seminaries worldwide do not contextualize theological education.
Pastors, professors, professionals, and mission leaders rely on print, Western systematic theologies, propositional preaching, individualistic approach to communication and learning.
Proper accreditation for informal oral transformational learning that does not rely purely on reading references, taking written exams, and writing papers, is practically non-existent.
Our Ultimate Task: Retool 21st Century Leaders
- Create model ministries beginning with one school, one church, and one mission organization that practice oral principles and methods.
- Form replicable networks/cohorts of mission and educational leaders that foster a movement of orality-framed communication and instruction from the classroom to the pulpit to the grassroots.
- Launch orality training cohorts beginning in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
- Become a leading force in orality research that supports and enhances orality.
- Provide orality resources for cross-cultural workers, pastors, and teachers working among the oral majority.
- Build a close network of orality experts who practice, research, and train regional leaders at all levels (especially grass-roots) in the art of oral instructional communication.
Give
Thank you for your support and donations so we can train more workers in the field to Learn and Teach like Jesus.
You may send your donations through the following:
PayPal
Security Bank Corporation (Philippines)
Account Name: Institutes for Orality Strategies
Account Number: 00000-32954553 (Checking Account)
Swift code: SETCPHMM
By Mail (US)
You may also send your donations below:
I-OS
P.O. Box 910254
Lexington, KY. 40591
