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…
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…
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…
In India, Jireh Ministries hosted an Oral Arts Festival. Drums, songs, dances, dramas, poetry, clothing, jewelry, and other local art forms brought the stories of Scripture alive for both audience and performers. “The cultures they love, in which they have…
In Australia, Safina (Fergie) Stewart’s paintings are “infused with biblical meanings and a sense of joyful hopefulness…. She makes her living as an artist from the sale of her original works and reproductions both online and at a local Indigenous art…
In Russia, a Bosch painting of Christ strongly impacted Konstantin Zhigulin. This painting spoke directly to Zhigulin’s heart, while translated church songs seemed unattractive to him because they were “not at all related to anything in Russian culture” (Handbook p…
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…
In Panama, an elderly Emberá believer sang song after song for the six young people sitting in front of her. Suddenly, they erupted with applause, “That’s the song!” The traditional Emberá tune became the basis for a new children’s worship…
Lament traditions are common in African cultures. Harriet Hill, director of the American Bible Society’s Trauma Healing Institute, found that when African Christians understood the structure of lament Psalms in the Bible, they eagerly embraced the use of their own lament…
Wendy Atkins, who works with Africa Inland Mission, led a songwriting workshop with believers from four people groups in Mozambique. One of those, the largely unreached Mwani, previously had no Christian songs in their language.To create new songs, the workshop…
New England missionaries brought their hymn book to the Choctaw land of Mississippi in the early 1800s. Soon after, the Choctaw and missionaries among them were removed to Oklahoma. By the end of the century, the missionaries had passed away…
In a refugee community in the southern United States, Korean, Syrian, Tedim Burmese, and Caucasian Americans meditated on I Corinthians 12 before crafting a multicultural song that intermingled common chord progressions, counter and overlapping melodies, and the languages of all…