This hands-on workshop is designed to empower participants with the tools and methodologies needed to innovate and solve mission-critical challenges. Through this guided design sprint, you’ll learn to turn ideas into actionable solutions. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or new to the field, this sprint will inspire creativity and foster impactful innovations.

Contextualized ScriptWriting 101 (Steve Baldwin)

Scripts are the foundation of any good film. In this presentation, we will explore Create International’s formula for writing indigenous scripts for a cross-cultural audience. This presentation will be especially helpful to producers, directors and scriptwriters drafting effective cross-cultural evangelistic films for unreached people groups. Topics include: partnerships, key questions for cultural advisors, researching your indigenous audience, collaborative engagement with in-country staff, script line numbering and more.

Culture Meets Scripture: Bringing God’s Power to Cultural Strongholds (Jo Shetler, Dr. Amy West)

What do believers do when cultural customs clash with their allegiance to God? How can we help them use Scripture to both evaluate their underlying beliefs and then discern what to do? When pressures from family, peers and community require participation in those practices, how can they gain needed support to make choices that align with Scripture to honor God? What if those choices entail great relational costs and powerfully entrenched cultural beliefs? These types of questions are core to this seminar. The hour introduces a process to uncover the driving forces that demand the practice be done and then uses Scripture to see how God’s Word speaks to those forces. It aims at providing a process for believers to develop culturally meaningful responses that align with Scripture.

Simply the Story: Inductive Bible Story Oral Style (Butch Vernon, Larry Dinkins)

See an oral model of how to go deep in the Bible through discussion. Learn actions and expressions that engage participant’s imaginations, while maintaining accuracy to Scripture. We will teach the importance of developing active listening skills, asking good questions, and allowing participants the joy of discovering truth for themselves. If you minister to those who may struggle to read or who prefer to learn orally, this opportunity is for you.

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Monday 27 May:  Session 2       15:45 – 16:45

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Feeding the Mobile Masses: Engaging the Digital Crowds with Your Best Media (Jim Moore & Dave Johnson)

Embracing digital strategies for Scripture engagement is crucial in today’s landscape. If you’re navigating the challenge of sharing your content on websites, apps, or social media, join us to discover how Kalaam Media collaborates with language communities globally. Our aim is to empower these teams, enabling them to develop and oversee culturally tailored websites and mobile apps. We will also look at the latest features of Wildfire, our custom website builder, and share some new innovations we are working on.  We partner with language communities, church plants, and other ministries across the world, empowering them to create and manage their own digital solutions.

From Media to Movements (Clyde Taber, Stuart, JS)

The Church has decades of history in traditional media campaigns using a broadcast approach, ‘pushing’ content out to large audiences. The game has changed with the advent of new media paradigms, especially social media. Social media is the primary way most people engage with content. It is no longer enough to tell the story you want to tell over traditional media or social media channels, and hope that you will connect with an audience. We must learn to shape our strategies and our content to ‘pull’ people into conversations. In this seminar, you will learn how to connect with audiences that filter and search for the stories they want to hear, based on their interests and desires. You will learn an approach that can foster deeper connections and make “disciples who make disciples” to saturate a culture.

Valuing Cultural Engagement for Effective Communication (R. Daniel Shaw)

In our contemporary world of missional engagement, localization, orality, and relevance are important trends. Enabling pastors, Bible translators, and others in vital relationships with people to communicate a gospel that is relevant to the lived experience will ensure greater use of scripture that not only speaks right but also acts right for those who apply it to living their lives.

Monday 27 May:  Session 3       17:00 – 18:00

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Max7: Dubbing Animation (Joel Groening, Reece Terrell)

In this breakout session, you will discover that while Max7‘s animated resources are aimed at young people, all ages enjoy animation. You will learn what Max7 offers and why it is an amazing resource for you to learn about and make use of in your ministry areas. We will also discuss video dubbing in general, talk about software tools now available, and give you a taste of how a Max7 dubbing of an animated video is done in another language.