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Titles in the series are:
The recordings are available in mp3 and video formats for downloading. Many have also been converted into Bloom Books for use in literacy.
You can download the Look, Listen and Live series audio-visuals and scripts here or access them via 5fish, or view an introduction to the Look, Listen and Live series below:
The recordings have been made, where possible, using mother tongue speakers with clear voices who are respected in the local community. Local music and songs are sometimes added between pictures. Various checking techniques are used to ensure the accuracy of translation and communication.
The recordings are freely available to download in MP3 format.
Written scripts of the recordings are available online in simple English and many other languages. You can access the scripts in English here or in other languages via our international website.
These scripts are a basic guideline for translation and recording in other languages. They should be adapted to suit the language, culture and thought patterns of the people. Some terms and concepts used may need a fuller explanation or even be omitted in different cultures. Appropriate local stories and applications may be added to the scripts to better illustrate the basic teaching of each picture-story.
Flipchart Carry Bags can be used to hold several flipcharts and/or other materials.
You can view the Look, Listen & Live 2: Mighty Men of GOD audio-visual below:
GRN has produced the following Audio Visual Materials for teaching the message the Christian Gospel as outlined in the Bible –
These are some of the many different ways these resources can be used.
The audio tracks and the picture sets are designed to be used together. However, there are situations when they can be used separately. The audio track should only be used on its own if it has been especially prepared for this purpose, so that it does not refer to the pictures. (e.g. – there is a version of the Good News script designed to be used with or without the pictures. It is designated with an ^ symbol (GN^) on the audio presentation.)
The picture sets can be used with the audio track or by a ‘story-teller/preacher’. They can be used by a ‘teacher’ with a group or an individual. At the most basic level, a user of the materials (evangelist) needs only to know how to operate the playback device and to turn the pictures at the right time. However, it is ideal if the evangelist is also able to interact with the audience by entering into discussion, by asking questions or by giving further explanation or telling more stories. Therefore the evangelist needs to become very familiar with the script and to understand the message of each picture.
The best way to use our audio-visual resources is to play the audio track straight through (as long as people are willing to listen) while holding the pictures up for all to see, turning the pages at the appropriate time (usually indicated by a distinctive sound on the recording).
The evangelist may choose to leave copies of the recording on a playback device and some picture books with the hearers so that they can listen over again.
GRN audio-visual presentations include: “Good News“, “Look, Listen & Live“, and “The Living Christ“. The scripts for these presentations are all stories from the Bible. They are not translations of the Bible, but they aim to simply and appropriately give the message of the Bible. The original scripts have virtually no explanatory content to allow God’s word to speak to the heart of the hearers.
Ian speaks about using the GRN picture book while on short term mission.
Dalene Joubert, GRN South Africa, shares her experience with GRN pictures.
In my experience of evaluating and trying pictures in about 10 different countries including some of the Indian Ocean Islands, over a period of 20+ years: if people, especially non-readers, can have pictures in hand, for as long as those pictures last and for as many pictures there are, people will continue to share stories out of the Bible with others – using these pictures. The accompanying audio or script gets memorised and referred to occasionally, but as long as the pictures are there, they have a story to tell. The pictures become the primary source of the discussion, Bible study, prayer meeting, children’s group …
So we can never have enough pictures in this part of the world. Those pictures become the Bible of these non-reading communities. Even when they get the audio Bible in their language, they can still use the pictures with our references at the bottom to make listening to the Scripture portions not just more interesting, but the pictures help them to remember the stories and go share them again with others.
God’s ways are amazing! Though we couldn’t speak Fulfulde, the local dialect, nor Hausa, the regional dialect, we fortunately did have the GRN recordings in Fulfulde. We couldn’t have imagined the chain of events God orchestrated for the sake of the gospel through these messages.
One day a local pastor led a boy, Joe, to Christ. Angered, the elders of the village threw him under house arrest and decided to kill him the next day. When the pastor heard of this plot, he rescued Joe by digging a hole in the mud hut where Joe was imprisoned. They fled to our place at the Bible College. For the next six months, Joe soaked in the messages of the recordings, in his native tongue, Fulfulde. Oral tradition is very important in his community. If a question is asked and the respondent doesn’t want to tell the whole truth, he will reply in Hausa. But if he replies in Fulfulde, then the questioner knows that he spoke the truth: no-one lies in the mother tongue. Much of the preaching the people had previously heard had been in Hausa so they had questioned the validity of the message. However, because the GRN recordings were in Fulfulde, Joe believed the messages and memorized Bible verses, stories, and songs.
The recordings were excellent preparation for Joe’s later study at a bush Bible School and training to be a pastor. Through Joe becoming a missionary to people in the area surrounding the Bible College, we met the high king who reigned over 13 kingdoms. The king permitted the preaching of the Gospel to everyone in this region!
Later Joe took one of our hand-cranked recording players beyond our immediate area and preached to neighbouring Fulfulde speaking people. Soon after hearing the Gospel for the first time, boys in groups up to 14 would show up at our doorstep wanting to listen to the recordings. We always invited them in and served them hot tea with cream and sugar while they listened. Many thanked us for ‘feeding’ them: they told us tea was considered a meal. Amazing God! He used Joe to open doors for us to screen the Jesus film spoken in Fulfulde for these groups, but he also used two young shepherd boys.
Daily, this pair would turn up at our doorstep and stay from 7am until 7pm, listening to the recordings. We didn’t really know what they were doing, but served them tea anyway. Two months later, we trekked out to one of the villages where the boys hailed from. Fifteen children ran up to us singing the song off the recordings, Jom-i-rio (God gives me life). We were so surprised to hear this familiar song because we hadn’t visited the village before. The children told us that one of the two shepherd boys had taught them. Those two boys had been memorizing the entire recordings, word for word. In a culture that only has oral traditions and information, if something is of importance, it is repeated until perfectly memorized. They would quiz each other to check accuracy and they also memorized the songs, scriptures and messages. When ready, they had taken their knowledge back to their village and taught all the children.
Amazing! God, who used a young shepherd 2000 years ago to herald his message, used two shepherds today to do it again. Even though we didn’t know the local dialect, we are so grateful to Global Recordings Network who made it possible for us to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the people so they could hear His story and burden for them. Praise God for the gift of language and the ministry of GRN!
We presented Gospel cassettes accompanied by flipchart display pictures. Many sat riveted as the tape recorder proclaimed the Gospel message and Bible stories in Arabic. The soldiers couldn’t get enough of them, especially the stories of valour and victory by mighty men of God in the Bible. These cassette players and flipcharts are an incredible, effective means of reaching out to people and discipling them. I cannot describe the awe and wonder on people’s faces as they sat and listened to Bible stories in their own language and saw it visually depicted in pictures.
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