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  1. As a boy growing up in rural Sierra Leone, West Africa, stories played a vital role in my conversion to the Adventist faith. Most of the elderly people in my hometown did not have formal western education, and they could not read. However, they were quick learners and good story tellers. They used the old Picture Roll, a roll of pictures with memory verses used in Children Sabbath School in the United States and other parts of the world to tell us Bible stories. Through the Picture Roll, we learned stories like Joseph's Coat of Many Colors, Daniel in the Lion's Den or The Ten Virgins. Later when I began to read the Bible, I could see that the men told those stories with precision and accuracy. Stories like the Prodigal Son or Ruth have a hypnotizing effect on the minds of many, and they are a great way to introduce people to Christ just like those men and women in my hometown did when we were still young and restless.

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