We are a ministry registered in the Philippines under the legal name Institutes for Orality Strategies, Inc. (I-OS) and operate as ORALITY collaborators.
In partnership with networks, ministries, seminaries, and individuals we empower the excluded majority through training & research. Our goal is to equip communicators of the transforming Word using oral principles & methods, the same way Jesus taught and continues to speak today.
Our 3 Domains of Impact
Training
We train leaders in methods and principles of orality used by Jesus at various academic levels.
Research
We engage in research on academic and grassroots levels and provide tools and resources.
Collaboration
We work with mission organizations, non-profits, businesses, educational institutions, and churches.
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
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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 among unreached people 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, Danyal oversees the development of the Global Orality Mapping Project (GOMAP), teaches orality principles and methods around the world, and is the co-founder and editor of the OralityTalks Journal.
Visit his website at dqalb.de.
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.
Jerome S. Cepeda
Orality Consultant
Résumé
Jerome is the lead pastor of a Lighthouse Christian Community church in Sta. Rosa, faithfully shepherding a growing and diverse congregation. Before entering full-time ministry, he worked as a registered nurse, an experience that shaped his compassion and care for people. He later earned a Master’s Degree in Biblical Studies from SUM Bible College and Theological Seminary in California and is currently pursuing a PhD in Orality at AGST.
Passionate about discipleship and community, Jerome dedicates his life to guiding families, equipping believers, and fostering a church environment where transformation and genuine relationships thrive.
He is joyfully married to Dianne, and they raise their three children, Jedi, Jireh, and Jabez, who continually inspire their journey of faith and service.
Daniel Baker, PhD
Orality Consultant
Résumé
Daniel Baker is passionate about envisioning, equipping, and empowering the Church for Gospel mission that transforms communities and impacts nations. He has completed his PhD in Orality Studies from the Asian Graduate School of Theology, Philippines and continues to develop training using biblical storytelling and holistic discipleship strategies.
He and his family lived in the Middle East from 2018 to 2026, and are now based in Boston, USA, where they serve their local church and facilitate cross-cultural ministry efforts.
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.
Click & fill the gap!
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 to 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, which 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.
Our resource, training & project sites
An orality training program ranging from workshops and certification programs to higher academic degrees like MA and PhD programs.
An orality-focused open-access publisher & resource collection. Do you like your work published?
The Global Orality Mapping Project is a tool that intends better to understand the orality reliance of the world’s UPGs.
A tri-annual journal and bi-monthly webinar focusing on orality, featuring global leaders in the field.
