Workshop Leaders

Raised on a cow-pig-chicken-sheep-oats-corn-beans farm west of Bloomington-Normal, Roger Schmidgall worked 42 years in Info Technology at State Farm. He grew to appreciate storying through Perspectives class and short-term work […]

Phyllis Hostmeyer, author, educational consultant, and storyteller, hails from Southern Illinois. She has led hundreds of workshops on reading, writing, and storytelling throughout the world. Her workshops are filled with […]

Penny has been a storyteller in children’s ministry for 25 years. She had been wanting a way to share the Bible with others when John Walsh came to her church […]

Mary Claire Anderson fell in love with the powerful tool of storytelling as an audience member. So she transferred her skills as a theatre instructor into a repertoire of stories […]

Mark is a lay Bible teacher from central Illinois who for the last several years has collaborated with members of the BibleTelling organization. They have been refining strategies to communicate […]

For years, John Walsh has been teaching people in ministry how to tell stories. That was the basis of his 2003 book, The Art of Storytelling, which is still being published […]

I grew up on the mission field. We lived in three different countries. During that time I have helped to teach kids and eventually started the Sunday School program, translated […]

Dr. Stan Nussbaum is an independent mission coach, innovator, researcher, and writer with wide international experience. He is known as “Coach” to research students on five continents. He thrives on […]

Don Falkos is a storyteller, storytelling coach, and podcaster. He is the founder of Blessed By The Spoken Word, a ministry dedicated to telling the stories of the Bible and […]

Anne, a missionary with OMF, volunteers at BibleTelling, as well as teaching for Urbana Theological Seminary. In Taiwan for 45 years, she taught inductive Bible studies, discipleship training & Bible […]