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The greatest story ever told is the one in the Bible. It starts with a perfect world where humans live in perfect harmony with each other and God. Very quickly the conflict of sin is introduced and it corrupts the world. There are sub-stories and plot twists of how humans have tried to deal with sin. The book leads up to Jesus conquering sin on the cross and how humans can now live free from the bondage of sin. However, sin still exists. In the last section of the Bible we see sin and evil being destroyed for good and the perfect world being restored. But that is yet to come.

Storytelling in missions follows the same pattern. We see the sin problem in a specific area of the world or specific people group. We see the power of Jesus at work changing the hearts of those people through the missionaries, local church, and the ministries in the area. But we also see that the story isn’t over and that there is a great need: a need for more people to come help serve both short-term and long-term, a need for financial supporters to fund missionaries and their ministries, a need to cover everyone in prayer, and a need for everyone to come to know Christ before the greatest story is over.

Communicating these needs was the purpose of this trip. We learned technically and practically what it looks like to create these mini-stories to help further God’s Kingdom and to invite others to help fill those needs.

Click here to watch the story I produced to help fill a need in La Concha. Please share it so others may help, too. (Parental advisory: some subjects discussed in the video may not be appropriate for young children.)

Pastor Luis Garcia in front of his house