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Hame Paul Puller Bom (Place) San QLego

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Bom (Place) Havana

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David

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9/V72

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Bethal, Ohio

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Madiaenvilla, Cin*ti., 0. Miniater of Music 1965* 18 months

Winoheater, Kentucky, Ant .och Church of Christ Miniater 4 yearsy 1966-70

Knoxville, Kentucky Minister 1 year, 1971

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David Jerald

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Glen Cove. New York

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4/72

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5Volume 5 Number 3

South East Asia Evangelizing Mission

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Dear Christian l^riends and Co-laborers ofChrist;

Jesus said, "I'ray ye therefore the I.ord ofthe harvest, that he send forth laborers into hisharvest." We rejoice that the Lord of theharvest has been preparing Paul and CrisI' uller to go into the thrilling work of world e-vangelism! Specially as we see the need forwell-qualified missionaries to train AsianCJiristian leaders in spreading the Cospelthrough music, and as Bible college programsare launched in new areas of Asia, ['aui andCris I' uller are vital additions to "the team" forspreading the (iospel in South Hast Asia. TheDii'ectors of the South l-last Asia K\'angelizingMission recommend I'aul and Cris to you foryour sending them as messengers for the Cos-pel in Asia.

.Music is a vital part of the Christian lifeand worship. However, many people aroundthe world find it just as difficult to enjoy European ( or American) music as they find itunintelligible to listen to the English language,hor instance, in South East Asia, many peoples

MISSIONARII'S:

Mr. and Mrs. R. LaVi-rnc Morse-

Mr. and Mrs. Virgilio dc los SantosMr. and Mrs. Peli-r SiitjaibunMr. Daniel Kalnin

Mr. and Mrs. Mi\ Haven

Mr. iuul Mrs. pjiul l iillc-r

Pdiil & ('.ris h'd/lcr. & Diiiiil

use five-note (pentatonic) scales, rather thanour diatonic or chromatic scale. It would beridiculous, of course, for us to say, "If thechromatic scale was good enough" for theApostle Paul, it's good enough for people inevery country today!" Paul probably did notuse music at all similar to our Western church

music today. Therefore, for more effectivespreading of the Gospel today, it is urgent thatChristians develop more indigenous music,communicating the Gospel in the "musical language" of the people.

In the new Bible Institute in Thailand, aswell as in seminars and extension training programs, Paul and Cris Fuller plan to teachChristian music to many, many Asian Christian leaders, with an initial term of two yearsin Asia. Composers of new music need to betrained, as well as vocalists and instrumentalists. Especially as we face open doors throughradio, television, and other electronic massmedia, Christian music in the cultures of eachpeople becomes tremendously important.

We thank God for Paul and Cris Puller.They are dedicated and well-trained, ready tolaunch into a truly professional-quality workof serving Christ through music. Also, Paulloves to preach, having graduated from Cincinnati Bible Seminary and having had severalyears' experience in preaching. Please praywith us that they may obtain fully the supportthey need, and that they will be able to reachThailand in 1974.

TO SPREAD THEGOSPEL WITH

ASIAN MUSIC

Dear Christian Friends:It has been with that feeling of "someone's

tugging on my shirtsleeve" known only to theChristian that I have associated over the lastsix years with brother LaVerne Morse. Ofcourse, we would both kiddingly agree todaythat brother Morse would not tug on anyone'sshirtsleeve! Perhaps its more like dangling acarrot. In any case, it was six years ago thismonth, 1 believe, that his idea was first presented to me with characteristic sincerity andbreadth of vision: "The Lord needs Christianethnomusicologists laboring in His vineyard;why don't you go into that area of music,Paul?" As I recall the occasion, my uncleDavid llees, long an associate of the Morses asa fellow missionary in Asia was visiting thecampus of the Cincinnati Bible Seminary,where I had just graduated. We were all visiting in LaVerne's office when he raised theidea, and it has been my companion since thatday

Thailand Lisu musician with stringedinstrument

ETHNOMUSIC-

OLOGY?Ethno - what? To many of you folk read

ing this letter, the word may not be strange because of Brother Morse. He has talked andwritten about it in many places in connectionwith Christian missions. UTiat it means, however, is sometimes not even clear to ethnomusicologists. It is a new science, born in theearly part of the century and not offered inuniversities until the mid-fifties. Plthnomusic-ologists study music in culture. They sometimes think of themselves as half anthropologisthalf musicologist. Their study most often leadsto countries where European music is not themajor force, and most of their time is spenttrying to understand and interpret just whatmakes up non-Western music.

"What," you may ask, "does this have to dowith the Great Commission of Christ? " Theanswer is an easy one. Eastern people likeEastern music. Southern people like southernmusic (with a few exceptions!). Indigenous

(local) Christian music can instruct and inspirepeople to the glory of God in a way that for-^gn music can hardly match. I can scarcelyimagine anyone asking the Cluristian woman ofBurma to weeir modern American clothes toevery church meeting! I think I can safely say,in spite of my male status, they would be uncomfortable! Sometimes it is exactly the samewith music. There is nothing sacred, nothingsuperior about European hymnody (nor aboutGregorian chant, as the Catholics sometimesclaim). And when Christian leaders ask non-Euro^ans to sing our songs, the leadersusually do so because they know nothing else.Sometimes it works; often it doesn't. Our goalas Christian ethnomusicologists is to helpChristians use the music with which they aremost confortable for the praise of God andedification of one another.

THE MAKING

OF A CHRISTIAN

ETHNOMUSIC-OLOGIST

Brother Morse has suggested that 1 sketchmy background for SouthEast Asia Challenge!readers, and perhaps, if you have come thisfar with me, you will share some reminiscing.I am as thankful for the Christian home where

I was reared as for anything. My folks notonly provided that (much frowned upon today)strict, wonderful Christian environment, butalso from my age nine, increasingly expensivepiano, trumpet, and organ lessons on apreacher's $350 per month salary! By the timewe came to Ohio (1961, my age 16), thoselessons were $40 per month! But they providedme with a fine practical music background(including symphony appearances and manyrecitals) which has been indispensable. Whenthe Cincinnati Conservatory of Music offered asmall scholarship in 1962, however, I was nottoo disposed to accept it, knowing the (what Iwould call, with apologies, pagan) environment there. Instead, I planned to spend oneyear at the Cincinnati Bible Seminary first. Ah,but that tugging at the sleeve! Something tugged that year, and I recall it again with great

fondness. The one year stretched into five; Iwent ahead and took the regular, ministerialdegree A-B. (Bible). I had made the decisionat this time to try pushing down two broadpathways at the same time: Biblical educationand continued music education. So I continued

part-time work at the Cincinnati Conservatoryof Music. Diuring these years, and those whichfollowed, I held a 1 year youth ministry atBethel, Ohio; a one and a half year musicministry at Madisonville, Cincinnati; a 4 yearpreaching ministry at Winchester, Ky.; and a1 year preaching ministry at Knoxville, Ky.There were also playing, accompanying, singing, teaching, and leading music in manychurch meetings. In 1968 I was accepted(Primarily through the efforts of Mme. OlgaConus, my long-time piano teacher) into theMasters (piano) program at the CincinnatiConservatory, ffnishing the degree in 1971. Itwas here that Maria Cristina Sanchez also took

her Master of Music (Education) degree.

Little did "Cris" know her fate. Havingfled Cuba in 1960, however, she had knownhard times before! We were married in 1969.Cris had studied music for her bachelor's degree at Virginia Commonwealth University,earlier taking work at a fine Christian highschool in St. Louis. What wondrous thingsthe Lord hath wrought! In working on her,however, the Lord has not spared fire (doesHe ever? ). Cris worked full-time while inCincinnati as a guidance counselor. Todayshe is working full-time as a mother, whilebaby-sitting full-time with three other childrento balance our budget. She endured a complete change in everything while 8 3/4monthspregnant; that is, we moved to New York, living with friends, one week before our sonDavid was born. Before you ladies roastme completely for such behavior, be remindedthat Peter Su^aibun's wife Ruth was 8 3/4months pregnant when they moved to Americafrom Thailand (sorry Peter).

Perhaps Fd still better explain. Finallyable to respond affirmatively to LaVerne'ssuggestion, I had applied late in 1971 to thePh.D. program at Columbia University in eth-nomusicology. Much to my surprise, I was

NOTICE

Members of the South East Asia Evangelizing Mission do not practice, advocate, or approve of Pentecostoiism, neo - pentecostalism, "speaking in tongues,"present - day "prophecies", etc., of the so - called "charismatic movement" oftoday.

FORWARDING AGENTS:

James and Doris FloreyBox 581

Mokeno, Illinois 60448

MISSION SERVICES

BOX 177

KEMPTON, INDIANA 46049

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SPONSORING CHURCHES:

First Christian Church and

Maple Lawn Christian ChurchJoliet, Illinois

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accepted. Thus the Lord was able to showerHis blessings down upon us in New York!When we arrived, I was able (a total stranger)to get a S3,000 loan for tuition, a steady part-time job at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,and an apartment on campus, all two weeksbefore the beginning of school. This year (mylast year of college? ? !!), I have been blessedwith two teaching positions to help our budget,one at Columbia University, one at MannesCollege of Music. It is interesting that backin '69 when Cris first learned of the possibilitythat I might enter the field of ethnomusicology,her reaction was not exactly warm! She said,"Don't you ever . . . AH that strange-sounding music? ? Now, however, we both are tremendously interested in other music cultures,even after getting so deeply in the European

THE FUTUREChiengmai is our destination, and the new

Bible Institute our future home. We are hopingto arrive there in October, 1974. We are praying that many churches will take the opportunity of hearing about the Bible Institute between now and then, as well as the music work,by letting us share one Lord's Day with them.Please pray for us as we attempt to raise financial support and also finish our long preparation.

To my way of thinking, the most criticalmission thought for our day is one I oftenheard from Prof. G.M. Elliott: "This generation must evangelize this generation!" Thevictories of the past are wonderful, but theydo not automatically bring Christian offspring. Moreover, the Christian victories ofthe past in South East Asia were relativelysmall. So, we are just beginning. Again andagain we hear how this age is different, butthe thought keeps interrupting me, "No, it isalso the same!" People are the same. Theyneed .lesus.

The Bible Institute in Chiengmai will servea crucial function, not only in presenting Jesus,but especially in adding "to your virtue, knowledge". It will be training teachers, preachers,and, by the grace of God, Christian musicians.

"And itlu'ii ihcy ii-t-rc conic inU/it'c house, llu'v •siiir the vonniichild iiilh hfs I'lofhcr,

' iiiiil fell doiin, mill iiorshijijiedhim; ..."

^ Anlthen- 2: 11

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Dirccfors 'jj South liast Asia fivcingelizirif^ S\ission.

PRAY FOR US!

As the South I'last Asia Iwangeiizing Mission grows, we urgently need your prayer--support. We serve a (lod who answers prayers!In just several months from now, i'eter andKulJi Sutjaibun and their two children are dueto leave for Thailand. Together with DanielKalnin, I'aul and ITls Fuller, and others, theyare looking forward to launching the full-scaleBible Institute, together with Theological Fdu-cation by Fxtension programs. .Multiplying oftrained Asian Christian leaders is the objective!

LaVerne and Lois Morse, in the over-allcoordinating of the work as well as speaking inchurches, and rallies, and broadcasting byradio to South Fast Asia. and writingMILFIONS OF LFTTKICS (that's an exaggeration), and training of new missionaries, arekept busy with the work to which they havededicated their lives, for Asia, as well as forother parts of the world.

Mr. and Mrs. Max Haven, as directors ofthe Bible Correspondence Course work of the

Mission, have an increasing body of studentsin Burma, India, Thailand, and other countries. The Bible Correspondence Courses indeed are a tremendous tool as part of the total"team outreach" of the .South Fast Asia Mission.

At the same time, The Cospel radiobroadcasts in the Lisu, Rawang, and Kuchin languages continue SIXTFF.V TIMFS A WFFKON THF AIR! 'i'ens of thousands of Christians in the heart of Asia are strengthened bythese broadcasts, and encouraged to be moreeffective in standing and reaching out for Christ.The doors for spreading the Oospel in Asia

are tremendous, but we urgently need yoursupport through your prayers and alsothrough your RFGCLAH financial giving.Contributions should be sent to the MissionTreasurers, Mr. and Mrs. )ames k'lorey. Box581, Mokena, Illinois 60448. The Floreysserve as Treasurers, appointed by the Boardof Directors of the South Fcist Asia Evangelizing Mission.

Editorial

Ethnomusicology—"Jesus loves me, this Iknow, Forthe Bible tells me so!" More than half a century ago

one of those rare, exotic persons called "missionaries"visited our home church and sang that song for us inChinese. The words were strangely fascinating; the tuneunmistakably familiar. The missionary said this was onevery favorite song with Chinese Christians. Well, weliked it; why shouldn't they?

The ensuing years have changed a lot of those earlyimpressions, but not the wide appeal of "Jesus LovesMe." Now comes Professor LaVerne Morse, of the Cincinnati Bible College, with a privately-distributed andvariously-published article, "Ethnomusicology: a NewFrontier," which talks about the tunes that appeal and donot appeal to folk outside the Western world. Musicalscales are not the same all over the world, he says, andvast numbers of people in Asia and Africa use essentiallywhat he calls a pentatonic scale. That is, they use onlyfive notes, rather than seven, in moving through what wecall an octave from one keynote to the same one higher orlower. The Imlf-step notes that we call fa and ti arestrange to them, hard to distinguish, and still Imrdei tosing. These folk are downright uncomfortable with musicthat is obviously foreign because it contains all thosefasand tis.

"Jesus Loves Me" uses only the five, full-step notes inthe scale. It sounds like home, and they like it. The sameis true of other widely-loved Christian songs—"Amazing Grace," "Nothing But the Blood," "Only TrustHim," "Nearer, My God, to Thee," "How Firm aFoundation," and others that are being discovered andprepared for use in areas where more palpably Westernmusic labels Christianity as a foreign religion.

Don't get the idea, though, that deleting two notes,from the scale would create an instant universal languagein music. There are other variations, including patterns ofrhythm and melody; harmonies, unisons, and dissonances; types of instrumental accompaniment; and quality of singing—such as vibrato, falsetto, etc. Musically,not all people speak the same language. The folk in eachculture know what is familiar and comfortable to them.Since music, like the poetry that provides the lyrics for itssinging, is deeply involved with the emotions, folk aremoved or unmoved, attracted or repelled, by music.

It's a field worthy of greater study and better application than we restoration-minded Christians have generally given it. Hopefully, studies like that of ProfessorMorse will call attention to it, and students like PaulFuller will use it to the glory of God. Paul, a graduate ofthe Cincinnati Bible Seminary, is currently a doctoralcandidate at Columbia University, specializing in EastAsian ethnomusicology, and soon he willgo to work withthe South East Asia Evangelizing Mission.

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Basically his work will be in the field of translation, sothe gospel of Christ may be expressed and conveyed toeach nation in its own musical language. And translationis no new experience in Christianity. The Holy Spiritserved as translator on the Day of Pentecost, providingeach hearer with the message in his own native tongue(Acts 2:5-11). Since that day the translation of the inspired Word, spoken and written, has not ceased, as itfollowed the languages of men fi*om Greek to Latin, andGerman, French, English, and more than a thousandother tongues. It will continue, if the Lord tarries, untilthe Bible is printed in the native language of the lastremote tribe. As living languages change, the gospel thatwas first written in the conversational Greek of the firstcentury will be made available in the conversational languages of common people everywhere.

The musical language has been translated, too. Howstrange to us would sound the solos (the New Testamentcontains no clear reference to congregational singing) infirst-century meetings, with their stringed accompaniment (probable from association with the Psalms), and

-with certainly none of the parts-singing that was developed nine centuries later by the monk Guido ofArezzo. Gregorian chants, which probably come fairlyclose to the Hebrew-based musicd expressions of theearliest church, sound like nothing familiar to most of us!We much prefer the words, tunes, and musical settingsdeveloped within the past hundred years to express ourNew Testament faith in terms of American, perhaps English, culture.

Why, then, should we expect Christians everywhere tosing our songs the way we sing them? Yet ProfessorMorse can cite a recently published Christian hymnbookin Japan, with no more than ten hymns supplied withJapanese-composed tunes. Our Japanese brethren mustsing the other 724 hymns to Western tunes, if they singthem at all! Some of the Western tunes create realculture-shock among Orientals, Some translation is stillin order.

Ethnomusicology—the study of cultural expressions inmusic—need not be limited to what is long ago or faraway. Most of us have need of it within our own congregations. Each of us has his own musical tastes and preferences, firmly rooted in the way he was brought up, anddeeply affecting his attitudes toward the church and itsprogram. A song or tune may reach us with the healingtouch of a familiar friend, or it may disturb or irritate us,depending on where we went to school, and when! Andeach of us is likely to feel that his preferences are so rightthat they should be accepted by all.

Perhaps the best possible meeting ground in music is inthe understanding, the simplicity, and the message of"Jesus Loves Me."

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