Bible Blossom - Storyteller's Handbook

Acknowledgments and Dedication A work as sophisticated and complex as Bible Blossom: The Unfolding Story of God demanded input from numerous people and contributors. Tim Ladwig served as our graphic illustrator, whose amazing drawings and illustrations provide primary shape to our telling of the story in this resource. Carolyn Hennings, our curriculum designer, put together the text, pictures, and graphics of the resource. Her eye for beauty and design are the source of the guide’s structure, and its rich and clear presentation. Rev. Ryan Carter’s refreshing theological and biblical expertise outlinedmuch of the content in both the Storybook and the Storyteller’s Handbook . Lorna Rasmussen, our Chief Project Officer, kept us all on track, on budget, and happily persistent in this multi-year effort. We joyfully dedicate this resource to Rev. Terry Cornett, former head of Mission Studies with World Impact, and Dean Emeritus of The Urban Ministry Institute. Terry and Julie served faithfully as World Impact missionaries for twenty-five years, ten years of which he served as Academic Dean and Julie as theTUMI Librarian. From the summer of 2010, he and I began serious discussions on both the necessity and structure of such a resource – countless hours of debate and reflection produced clear and convincing

Early stages of Bible Blossom development