Jhonny A. Nieto Ossa grew up in the Amazonian triple border of Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, where he has carried out community development work. He studied music at Pedagogical University of Bogotá, Colombia. He and his wife, Ninoshka, have taught Critical Contextualization in Bible translation schools in Latin America. Jhonny has a master’s degree from Alliance University…
Ninoshka Gelpí Salas is Puerto Rican. She is married to Jhonny A. Nieto Ossa. She studied at the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras for a bachelor’s degree in Special Education and a master’s degree with Alliance University (Nyack) in Christian Professional Studies (Missions Emphasis). Ninoshka has certificates in Autism, Preschool, and Certification in Fine Arts…
Ben Wargis believes that every art-form is a story from a culture that is an equal part of a mosaic that makes up our world. He is an ethnomusicologist and music producer who has worked interculturally with people groups across Asia and Africa. As a third-culture kid, he is fascinated by cultures and his passion is to discover and research how local arts help mediate intergenerational…
Crystal Hao obtained her master’s degree in World Arts from DIU in 2018. She is a passionate ethnoarts advocate, nature obsessor, beauty declarer, multi-media creator and cultural learner. She is also an entrepreneur who is attempting to find new ways to integrate ethnodoxology in the social innovation…
Hoiling Poon is an ethnodoxologist based in Hong Kong. She is a PhD candidate in World Arts at Dallas International University. Additionally, she works as an art-mission researcher and teaches Intercultural Studies at Hong Kong Alliance Bible Seminary.
Raised with a deep appreciation for Christian hymns, Hoiling felt a calling to unite people from all nations in…
Dr Jacob Joseph serves as the dean of School of Worship and Music at South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAAICS) in Bangalore, India. Before joining SAIACS he served 23 years in Luther W. New Theological College in Dehradun, India and founded their well-known music department in North India. He graduated from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY with…
Rocelyn (Roce) A. Madinger graduated from the University of the Philippines Diliman with a bachelor and master’s degree in Music, and a major in Music Education. With colleagues in the field of EthnoArts, she encourages the cultural artistic expressions of different tribes, affirming their identity, helping them meet their church and/or community needs through…
Roch Ntankeh, PhD, is an Arts Training Specialist and a member of the Global Ethnodoxology Network (GEN). He serves as a professor of missiology and ethnodoxology at the Cameroon Faculty of Evangelical Theology. Additionally, he works as a consultant for various organizations, where he frequently conducts composition workshops in Africa.
Younhee Kim had thought about using arts as an instrument for missions in the late 1990s. After seeing the potential of arts in a short-term mission to Ethiopia in 2009, she organized and led an arts mission team in 2010 and 2012. In 2013, as a founding member of Arts in Mission Korea, she began to introduce the concept of Arts in Mission to Korean Christians…
Daniel Dama is originally from the Republic of Benin, West Africa. Dama holds two diplomas in theology and religious education from Baptist Theological Seminary Kaduna and Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. Dama also holds a bachelor’s degree in music from the Baptist Theological Seminary, Ogbomoso, Nigeria, a Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies from Fuller Theological…
David Oluseyi Ige is an ethnodoxologist, a worship leader, a film director, and a cross-cultural missionary. He is the Executive Director of Declare Global Outreach Mission, a ministry committed to declaring the gospel to the unreached peoples, equipping the local believers, and empowering local communities through strategic engagement, training, and production of contextualised audiovisual…
K Nu San Lung (Nu Nu) is an ethnoarts specialist, facilitating ethnoarts workshops and song writing workshops among language communities in northern and eastern Myanmar. She is currently teaching Ethnoarts at Kachin Theological College and Seminary, Nawng Nang. She is also serving as coordinator of the Strengthening Christian Families Program, a drug prevention…
Mike Cheon is an ethnodoxologist and videographer focused on serving the Afghan diaspora church since 2003. He spent five years in Afghanistan and worked as a music director in a local TV station. Even though it was a challenging environment, local art was rich and helped locals find emotional escape despite devastating…