Stick Figures Save the World

• How can you share Jesus with a napkin sketch and save a life? Our hearts all long for God-size stories that captivate our imagination. This handy Stick Figures Save the World equips us to communicate gospel stories any time, any place, and with anyone. In Sunday schools, in suburban homes, and among unreached peoples around the world, a growing movement of Jesus lovers are drawing simple stick figures to impart hope and invite people to follow him. Anyone can share Jesus with stick figures . . . so that everyone can love and obey him!

  — Dr. Mary Ho 

• Dr. Pam Arlund has taken the big, scary complexity of evangelism and storytelling and simplified it in practical and important ways, so every believer can be empowered to share the good news of Jesus. Stick Figures Save the World is practical, inspiring, and a refreshing look at the art of storytelling. We all have good news stories to share, and this book will help you share them effectively. I highly recommend you read this, practice it, and make it part of your lifestyle.

  — Joshua Johnson, Co-Executive Director, All Nations Kansas City Hub

• I was privileged to be mentored in this approach by Dr. Pam Arlund before our season of ministry with Middle Eastern refugees, and I am so thankful! We used the process described here to disciple many Muslim background believers and help them write the Scripture on their hearts. Pam’s down-to-earth way of learning, sharing, and teaching Jesus stories is so practical and effective—and not only with those who are less literate! Every believer can use this approach to know the Word more deeply, and to be empowered to share it more widely!

  — Meredith Johnson, Co-Executive Director, All Nations Kansas City Hub

• The pictures and the text of Stick Figures Save the World all proclaim, “You can do this. Don’t panic because you are a bad drawer.” The book is just the right length. Halfway through you might feel that there is a lot of new technique to learn, but then you see the simplicity of it and find that you can get started. I am sharpening my pencil now! I often use illustration in teachings, because even while people copy the pictures, it helps them to remember better. In the God-is-greater-team, we also use painting as a way to remember what God is telling us. And we often find as we draw that the pictures develop even more, and the Lord continues talking.

  — Cora E. Luepnitz, Public Librarian, MA Founder, The God-is-Greater-Team Hamburg, Germany

• Recently, my church-planting team and I were trained to share the good news. At the end of this training, we began to share the good news we learned from Stick Figures Save the World. I shared a story that we learned during training, and it was very exciting. When I went to a beauty parlor, I suddenly met two married women that I did not know. By sharing different Bible stories using stick figures, they were very surprised to learn about the power of Jesus Christ. I think these stick figures will help you share the power of Jesus too, especially for those who are illiterate. I learned how to share everything from pictures of the Bible to the great commands of Jesus Christ!

  — Pastor Mole, South Asia Ministry to Muslims

• After I encountered Pam's teaching on the simple power of stick figures, I started using this method to tell stories cross-culturally to a group of Czech college girls. The students loved it, but the amazing byproduct was gaining an incredible tool to disciple my preschool-age daughter! She became fascinated by the stories and soon began to ask for them and even try to copy them. I'm so thankful that Pam's engaging book now gives more people an opportunity to share Jesus with anyone, no matter their age or cultural background!

  — Jean Nies, Mom and Preschool Teacher

• If you would have told me a year ago that stick figures would lead to one of the most life-giving seasons of campus ministry I’ve had yet, I don’t know if I would have believed you. But this past year in my living room I have seen everyone from passionate atheists to church dropouts, to international students from the most unreached people groups on the planet engage with God’s story in a way they may never have had if I had first opened a Bible and tried to read. What’s most important is that people meet the Savior for themselves, and this book will teach you a way to help people do that in way that is simple, not intimidating, reproducible, and a lot of fun!

  — Matt Wallin, Campus Minister, Northern Kentucky University

Author

• Pam Arlund
  Pam Arlund

  Pam Arlund holds a BA from The George Washington University and an MA and PhD in linguistics from the University of Texas at Arlington. After attending Urbana as a student leader with InterVarsity, she spent ten years as a church planter and Bible translator in Central Asia, witnessing the first believers among a small people group. For more than fifteen years, she has taught Perspectives courses globally and serves with All Nations International and the Society of the Good Shepherd. Author of scholarly works and Stick Figures Save the World, she equips disciples worldwide. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

  Pam Arlund tiene una licenciatura (BA) de la Universidad George Washington y una maestría (MA) y doctorado (PhD) en lingüística de la Universidad de Texas en Arlington. Después de asistir a Urbana como líder estudiantil con InterVarsity, pasó diez años como plantadora de iglesias y traductora de la Biblia en Asia Central, siendo testigo de los primeros creyentes entre un pequeño grupo étnico.  Durante más de quince años, ha enseñado cursos de Perspectivas a nivel global y sirve con All Nations International y la Sociedad del Buen Pastor. Autora de obras académicas y de Stick Figures Save the World, capacita a discípulos en todo el mundo. Vive en Kansas City, Missouri.

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