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…
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…
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…