Name: Belinda Kuhn Organization: University of the Nations How did you get started in ethnodoxology? Serving with YWAM in East Africa and Eastern Europe I recognized the desire among other cultures to release their own songs and expressions to their Heavenly Father. I began learning their songs and this encouraged them (and me) to do…
Name: Hilary Davis How did you get started in ethnodoxology? I first discovered, intuitively, the need for ethnodoxology while living on the Yakama Nation reservation, where I observed the lack of indigenous Christian worship and also the way that artistic expression brought my students alive in a way nothing else did. What has been one…
The Worship Leader App began as a personal response to a local problem. During our 2 year language learning phase, we wanted to create a printed songbook of side-by-side English/Local language songs for our Middle East church-planting team. As a computer programmer, rather than producing a one-off as a document, I compiled a small database…
Name: Brian Schrag Organizations/Affiliations: Ethnomusicology and Arts Coordinator, SIL International; Founder, Center for Excellence in World Arts; GEN VP of Education and Training How did you get started in ethnodoxology? By being friends with people who made up the word and then built the network: Paul Neeley, Robin Harris, and more. I came alongside what…
Name: Jill Ford Organizations/Affiliations: All Nations Christian College Arts Release previously known as Resonance Arts/WEC: www.facebook.com/loveartsrelease World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission Arts Plus Europe Christian Artists Seminar How did you get started in ethnodoxology? My journey in ethnodoxology began through my working partnership with Ian Collinge (of Arts Release), who introduced me to the concept…
Name: Paul Shelton Organizational Affiliation: Latin American Association of EthnoArts How did you get started in ethnodoxology? While studying music and missions with T.W. Hunt at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, I read articles by Paul Neeley and Tom Avery, which started my passion for ethnodoxology. Later, working in Argentina as a music missionary, I found…
Tom Avery is smiling because Roce is smiling. Of course, Roce always seems to be smiling. And I can’t imagine Tom not smiling, since he’s living a life of eternal creativity with Jesus in Heaven. But Roce and Tom are linked in a unique part of God’s mission on Earth that makes them happy. Tom…
Name: James Krabill Organizational Affiliation: Senior Executive, Global Ministries at Mennonite Mission Network How did you get started in ethnodoxology? When I was invited to West Africa as a Bible teacher, we landed in a church that had been composing all their own music for more than 60 years, never importing or translating an outside…
Name: Josh Davis Organizational Affiliation: Executive Director, Proskuneo Ministries [bringing nations together in worship] Co-founder, Multicultural Worship Leaders Network How did you get started in ethnodoxology? Google! Well, my growing up years gave me the interest and the background. Involved in music already from age 4 and active on worship teams at an early age,…
Name: Ron Man Organizational Affiliation: Director, Worship Resources International; Pastor of Worship/Missionary in Residence, First Evangelical Church, Memphis, Tennessee How did you get started in ethnodoxology? I lived overseas for 10 years at 4 different times, but always in German-speaking Europe. God used my education (music studies and later seminary) and church experiences (as a…