Quest
In a Quest project, a managing partner engages in a two-year storying project with a people group by assigning a team. The two-year Quest team normally consists of two or three members formed from among various sources: national Christians called to cross-cultural ministry, short-term expatriate teams mobilized through a partnering agency, members of advocate churches, and believers from among the receptor people group. Trainers, mentors and consultants support these teams in fulfilling the outcomes of the project.
New teams mobilized by one of the partner agencies will normally be assigned to a field entity of the same agency serving as managing partner of a specific OneStory project. In some situations, new Quest storying facilitators can be seconded to a different partner agency managing a Quest project.
Quest teams participate in a two-year training and consulting cycle involving training sessions and onsite mentoring at approximately three-month intervals. Regular debrief periods, spiritual retreats and vacation times are planned for the Quest teams as part of the two-year term. A final debrief completes the term, during which the project recordings and documents are archived. This debrief overlaps with a new Quest cycle, with the outgoing teams sharing their experiences with the new teams and helping to train them.
Several of the partners maintain Web sites to provide their own information about orality and/or Quest.
Campus Crusade: StoryRunners.com
The Alliance: CMAlliance.org
Pioneers: Pioneers.org
TWR: TWR.org
Wycliffe: Wycliffe.org/onestory
YWAM: YWAMOneStory.org