Tom Rand teaches Bible the storytelling way

In 2009 our friend Tom (The Rev. Dr. Thomas Rand to be proper) came to GoTell for a consultation. He was to be part of a mission team going to Cambodia; his specific responsibility was to teach Bible. He thought biblical storytelling might provide a meaningful methodology. His intuition was richly rewarded. Tom taught Bible through biblical storytelling with amazing results. The people of Cambodia are storytellers par excellence and took to biblical storytelling like ducks to water, as the saying goes.

This is a picture of Romeo del Rosario who serves as the Country Director for the United Methodist Church in Cambodia. As Country Director, Romy is administrator and supervisor of mission programs with a team of workers that includes Cambodians and eleven UMC missionaries from around the world. He is also the District Superintendent in two provinces and teaches at the Cambodian Methodist Bible School where GoTell will travel in September 2011 to teach biblical storytelling.

Romy came to the U.S. this spring and to Ohio in April. We spent two days with him learning more about Cambodia and planning our educational program. We felt truly blessed by his presence and expertise as a missionary and we had great fun, too. One restaurant where we shared a meal played a lot of 60's music and we all had a delightful time remembering those wonderful songs. We look forward to seeing Romy again--next time in Cambodia!