During our March 2026 webinar, two experienced presenters discussed how storytelling presents unique opportunities to share the good news among Buddhists.
Tony told us how storytelling opened doors among the Tibetans during the 14 years he lived among them.
Larry Dinkins took us deeper into the subject, showing that storytelling is not optional to engage these people with God’s Word.
Tony is a practitioner of Bible Storying. He and his family lived 14 years among Tibetans, developing Bible Story Sets and sharing Bible stories with thousands of Tibetans and Buddhists. Since 2020, Tony has been on E3 Partners Oral Strategies Team helping develop simple, accurate, and reproducible Bible Story Sets among Unreached People Groups while training local believers and missionaries to implement Oral Church Planting Strategies into their work. Tony has also consulted on many Bible Story Development Projects with StoryRunners, ensuring naturalness, simplicity, reproducibility, and accuracy of Bible Stories.
Dr. Larry Dinkins finished his ThM at DTS in 1979 and then went with his wife Paula to Thailand through OMF International and began a church planting ministry with leprosy patients. In 1987 the Dinkins transitioned into a Bible teaching ministry at the Bangkok Bible College. In 1995 Larry finished classwork for a PhD at Biola University allowing him to return to Thailand to start a TEE program in North Thailand. Larry acted as a founding director of the newly formed Chiang Mai Theological Seminary in 2000 before the family evacuated Thailand in 2002 due to a diagnosis of cancer in Paula’s bone marrow. After nine years of treatment, Paula’s struggle with cancer ended and she went into the Lord’s presence. In 2012 Larry returned to Thailand to resume his ministry of Bible teaching. Dr. Dinkins is the coordinator for both Walk Thru the Bible and Simply The Story in Thailand.
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