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SURVEY of Local
Ethnic Musicians
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for local
Ethnic Christian Musicians & Poets
with a
Heart of Worship
CONTENTS:
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Intro
SURVEY
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****Please note: If you'd like to use this form, please highlight the page, then cut and paste it into your email and send it or paste it into your word processor and send it as an attached file. Thank you.
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The following survey is something that we are using here in Vancouver, BC (a very multi-cultural city), to see what the level of local interest is regarding having us host a local Scripture Songwriting Workshop among local Christian ethnic musicians.
The purpose for this songwriting workshop is to help encourage and facilitate the development of Scripture/worship songs in the cultural traditional musical styles of the local ethnic congregations in the region.
The workshop would also include some basic recording of the songs which can then be used to encourage the local believers as well as be sent back to their homelands to encourage their families and friends and the fellowships there. The ethnic worship tapes/CDs can then also potentially be used as evangelistic tools both given as gifts via cassette or can be broadcast into their homelands via Christian radio and TV.
We would encourage this kind of Scripture Songwriting Workshop/Recording to be done in multi-cultural cities internationally in order to help encourage the development of indigenous hymnody around the globe. This, in turn, would help to bring new life and encouragement to the newly-emerging fellowships of ethnic believers as it does to those of us who have enjoyed the blessing of our own cultural styles of worship music for many years.
If this type of possibility is of interest to you, please check out the web page noted above as something you may wish to adapt for use in your area, as well. We would heartily recommend that you contact a missions-focused ethnomusicologist to help you with this.
If you would like to know of some that we would highly recommend, please contact us at:
gcwac@hotmail.com
If you or others you know have experience in conducting Scripture Songwriting Workshops among indigenous peoples, please do let us know and send us their contact information so that we can also make these names available as the requests for help in this area come in. Many thanks!
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SURVEY
for local
Ethnic Christian Musicians & Poets
with a
Heart of Worship
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Nov.26, 2000
In the book of Revelation we are presented with the awesome and beautiful picture of the multi-faceted Body of Christ from every tribe, language, people and nation whole-heartedly worshipping Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords in His incredibly-awe-inspiring glory around His throne in heaven!
It is our desire as the Ethnic Worship & Arts Focus of the Great Commission Worship & Arts Center (located in Surrey, BC) to serve and help to encourage local and overseas ethnic fellowships of believers in Jesus Christ by encouraging the development of local indigenous musical expressions of worship.
We seek to do this, locally, by facilitating the development of writing Scripture songs through:
1) conducting Scripture Songwriting Workshops (which includes some basic recording of these songs);
2) providing opportunities locally (as able) to record good quality indigenous worship cassettes/CDs at discounted prices;
3) providing opportunities to distribute these songs to Christian radio and TV stations that are broadcasting into your homelands in order to encourage believers there, as well as possible ways to distribute these songs to believers or missionaries working in your homelands who can also distribute them among your countrymen; and
4) providing consultations, resources, training, local or overseas ministry opportunities and internships for your musicians that God is stirring or calling into these directions.
LOCAL EVENT BEING CONSIDERED:
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The first local event we are seriously considering is a "SCRIPTURE SONGWRITING WORKSHOP" which would include some basic recording of these songs once written. These types of workshops are being done in growing numbers of other nations with very encouraging responses as the believers are thrilled to have songs to worship God with their own cultural styles of music.
TENTATIVE DATES:
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Our tentative dates for this are during the 1st week of April, 2001.
LOCATION:
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Probably somewhere in Surrey, BC
MORE ABOUT THE WORKSHOP/ FACILITATOR:
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Workshop would be conducted by Paul Neeley of Dallas, TX, who is a missionary ethnomusicologist with many years of experience throughout Africa in this kind of ministry.
Paul and his wife and family are with a mission agency called ARTISTS IN CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY, and until recently were working with WBT for many years.
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We are looking to host our first such event with a group of up to 50 people of various ethnic groups from the Greater Vancouver/Lower Mainland. It would be best to have at least a few people of each ethnic group represented to benefit your ethnic group the most - ie. singers, poets, composers, etc.
We would be looking for people who have some knowledge of the cultural traditional music of your people and preferably some experience in singing, composition in your traditional musical styles, and/or instrument playing.
At this point, we are, by means of this letter, seeking to find out what the level of interest is locally for this type of workshop. (Costs would be minimal).
If this is of interest to you, please fill in the following information sheet (see below) and return it to us as soon as possible (hopefully before Dec.20, 2000) to help us with our planning, and so that we can send you the final details as soon as possible.
THANK YOU!!! for your time and help in this matter, and hopefully we will hear from you soon and see you at the workshop or connect with you further in the future!
So all nations may worship Jesus,
Grace Wiebe
Ethnic Worship & Arts Focus -
Great Commission Worship & Arts Center
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RESOURCES:
Web sites:
Great Commission Worship & Arts Center (GCWAC)
www.skyfamily.com/gracew/index9.html
Ethnic Worship & Arts Focus
www.skyfamily.com/gracew/index62.html
International Worship & Arts Network
http://www.worship-arts-network.com/eth-music-articles-list.html
Ethnic Worship & Arts Focus newsletter - free monthly email newsletter to help encourage the development of worship through indigenous expressions of music and the arts: for more info, contact: gcwac@hotmail.com
Resources: for some stories of some examples of what has happened in this regard overseas, please contact us: gcwac@hotmail.com
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PLEASE RETURN THE FOLLOWING PORTION TO US by fax, email or regular mail. Thank you!
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GCWAC, 194 / 6832 King George Hwy, Surrey, BC, V3W 4Z9 Canada
Email: gcwac@hotmail.com
Also contact the above if you have further questions.
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NAME OF INTERESTED PERSON:----------------------------------------------------
FIRST LAST
FULL MAILING ADDRESS:---------------------------------------------------------
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PHONE:_________________________FAX:___________________________
EMAIL:___________________________AGE: __20-25__25-40__40+
LOCAL CHURCH AFFILIATED WITH:____________________________________
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A BELIEVER? (approximate)___________________________________
1. 1. Are you a singer, musician, composer, poet, worship leader, etc.? If so, which of the above? If you play an instrument or instruments, which do you play? Which do you play well? ______________________________________________________________
Please state your experience and training if applicable: ______________________________________________________________
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2. Are you familiar with the cultural traditional musics of your people? Please explain:__________________________________
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3. Have you sung or composed music in your culture's traditional musical styles before? If so, please explain:
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4. Which ethnic group are you representing?_________________________________________
From which country are you?_________________________________________
5. Are you aware of other ethnic musicians with a heart of worship to Jesus Christ that we should contact about this? If so, please give us their name, address, fax no., phone no., email address, etc. Thank you. :_______________________________________________________________
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6. Are you able to attend:____evening sessions?____daytime sessions?___weekend sessions?
(Please mark YES with a Y and NO with an N)
The workshop will likely be from 3-5 days, some of which would be evenings, and possibly a weekend.
7. Do you know of any existing Scripture/worship song cassettes or CDs available that make use of your people's traditional musical styles? If so, we would be grateful if you would send us the name of the tape/CD, who it's by, some information about it and about the musicians, and contact information so that we can order copies, etc. (and if you have an extra copy, perhaps you can send us a copy so we know what is available and can help to promote that internationally :______________________________________________________________
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8. Do you know of any good articles, books or other resources to aid us in further research about the traditional musics of your people?: _______________________________________________________________
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9. Are you or have you been involved in ministry before which utilizes your musical or poetic gifts through music? If so, please explain:
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10. Does your church fellowship currently use songs from your cultural traditional musical styles? Yes____ No___ Some____ If so, please give details:_________________________________________
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Also, please state the response of your church - Is it positive?___ negative? ___ mixed?___
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11. Do you have an instrument or extra instruments that you could bring to the workshop to help with the songwriting for your ethnic group? If so, which instruments could you bring, and how many of each? ________________________________
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12. Do you know of folks that craft the traditional instruments of your country that live locally or in your homeland? If so, we would be interested in contacting them about some future possibilities which could also help to encourage the development of ethnic Scripture/worship songs:__________________________________________________________
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13.. What do you sense God putting on your heart regarding your role in the Great Commission locally or overseas with regard to your gifts as a musician, etc.?
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14. Would you be interested in connecting further to discuss additional ways that we may be able to help facilitate you in this?
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15. Would you be interested in potentially becoming involved in helping us to develop the area of encouraging the development of ethnic Scripture/worship songs locally or overseas in the future? If so, in what ways might that be?
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16. Other comments?:
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Thanks again so much! We will look forward to hearing back from you on this as soon as possible!