The Institutes for Orality Strategies (I-OS) trains and retools those sharing the Good News to teach like Jesus with the transformative power of orality.
Transforming brokenness among the oral majority by retooling leaders for high-impact communication with the same tried-and-tested methods used by Jesus.
We will achieve it by…
Training
leaders in methods and principles of orality used by Jesus at various academic levels.
Researching
orality on academic and grassroots levels and providing tools and resources.
Collaborating
with mission organizations, non-profits, businesses, educational institutions, and churches.
Meet the Team
The I-OS core team of orality experts and practitioners.
Charles B. Madinger, Ph.D.
CEO/President
Roce Anog Madinger
Danyal Qalb
Research Director
Jong Angeles
Director of Training and Education
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 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.
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 journal, bi-monthly webinar, and discussion forum focusing on orality featuring global leaders in the field.
