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Engaging Culture, Enriching Worship

This short video outlines the four main themes of the Nairobi Statement on Worship and Culture developed by the Lutheran World Federation. The video also touches on three meanings of the term "worship."

September 9, 2013 | 2 min video

Gerardo Marti on Emerging Churches and Religious Individualism

Gerardo Marti, professor of sociology at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina, is fascinated by diversity and innovation as aspects of how the world is changing and how that affects churches today.

August 8, 2013 | 3 min video
Gerardo Marti on Emerging Church Demographics

After writing three books about multicultural worship, Gerardo Marti has applied his research skills to what’s been called the emerging church or emergent Christianity.

August 8, 2013 | 1 min read

Ericson Alexander Molano: God Moves in the Midst of Praise and Worship

Integrity, humility and passion are some of the virtues that describe this young Colombian who grew up in the midst of mission trips, Bible studies and worship services due to his parent’s pastoral work.

July 31, 2013 | 17 min read

Tony Perez on the Silence of God

Although Tony Perez was born in a Christian home in his Guatemalan homeland, it wasn’t until he was 22 that he had a personal encounter with the Lord, in a small church in the city of Huntington Park, California.

July 30, 2013 | 25 min read
Luis Enrique Espinosa on Commercialization generates music with “massage” instead of message.

Thousands of young people have been challenged and motivated thanks to the ministry of “New Generation”, which Luis Enrique Espinosa and his wife Nilda founded more than a decade ago.

July 30, 2013 | 17 min read
Doris Machin: "It is not one’s gender but one’s heart that defines one’s work in the Lord"

Doris Machin has sung before many different audiences in the United States, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.

July 30, 2013 | 31 min read