Featured Ethnodoxologist: Elsen Portugal

Name: Elsen Portugal Organizations/Affiliations: GEN Board member; Wycliffe Global Alliance; Gospel Light Baptist Church, Hot Springs, AR; SIL Brazil; Junta de Missões Nacionais (Brazilian National Mission Board) – JMN; Horizontes Latin America; Ph.D. Candidate at B. H. Carroll Theological Institute. How did you get started in ethnodoxology?  I had been involved in missions and in music in sort…

Canela Hymn “Let Us Intercede”

In Brazil, Tom used the musical analysis of Canela traditional songs to compose and then introduce a few Scripture songs back into a Canela village. An observer said “It was like pouring gasoline on a fire!” Within a few nights hundreds of Canelas crowded around, listening to, learning, and improving the new songs. With tears…