I Prefer Listening to Reading

3A

What About In Your Community?

1. Overall question: Is this primarily an oral or print-oriented society? Please describe.
2. How many people read for pleasure:
   • Most
   • Many
   • Some
   • A Few
   • Almost None
3. What are the literacy rates for each age group and gender?
4. If this is a literate society, do people prefer to hear spoken information (in person or on phones or over radio) more than to get information through reading?
5. What current oral approaches are being used in the program (i.e. storying, electronic oral methods, etc.)?
6. With which groups could the team partner to offer storytelling (live or electronic) to the translation project?
7. How understandable are any home language Scripture materials that are available now?
8. Summary Questions: Considering these things, should your community use an oral/audio approach or a literacy approach or a mixture of both? What is the best approach for your language group?

Can We Use Our Music To Worship God?

3B

What About In Your Community?

1. What are some forms of artistic expression in the area (music, dance, visual)?
2. How are these used to communicate different kinds of information?
3. Is there a tradition of local proverbs that could be used to bridge to biblical proverbs?
4. What ethnic arts are already used in the church or Christian ministry?
5. Is there a system in place to ensure that artistic materials and performances are consultant checked before being made available to the public? If so, describe the system?
6. Is there a system in place to ensure that artistic materials and performances are community checked before being made available to the public? If so, describe the system?
7. Summary Question: Considering these things, what artistic style and genres (types of music, types of other art forms) would have the most impact when used in communicating the Bible?

I Like Both Reading AND Listening To The Bible: With Different Media I Can Have Both

3C

What About In Your Community?

1. What forms of media do the people in this group use?
2. What forms of media are used in the church?
3. What video forms exist in your area? (TV, DVD, internet, mobile phone, etc.)
4. Which media forms are most popular and which are less popular (mobile phones, TV, DVD, radio, internet, etc.)?
5. Which media forms do you think are likely to be in use in the next five years?
6. Which electronic media-based Scripture products exist in languages useful to your community?
7. If electronic media exists, what systems (such as listening groups) exist for facilitating use in groups?
8. Is there a system in place to ensure that Scripture media products are consultant checked before they are made available to the public? If so, describe the system?
9. Is there a system in place to ensure that Scripture media products are community checked prior to being made available? If so, describe the system?
10. Summary Question: Considering what media people are already using, what media would be the best way to share the Bible?