From: Phil deHaan (dehp@calvin.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 17 2002 - 15:39:33 EDT
Thanks to a $7 million grant from the Lilly Endowment the Calvin Institute of
Christian Worship is expanding its resources to reach a wider variety of
audiences.
One such example is the recently revamped Worship Institute website at
http://www.calvin.edu/worship/index.htm
Among the new additions to the site are resources in Spanish and Korean.
The Spanish site, found at
http://www.calvin.edu/worship/multilingual/spanish/index.htm, includes such
things as an interview with New York City church choir conductor Jorge Lockward;
the litany for a Spanish-English service at Lockward's church (West End
Presbyterian in NYC); a four-week teaching series with resources for worship
planning, sermon discussion, and home devotions; and a Q&A on three meanings of
the term worship.
Lockward's choir, Coro Cantico Nuevo, will be back at Calvin in January 2003
for the Symposium on Worship and the Arts hosted by the Institute. That choir
is 25 musicians from all over New York city, representing multiple Latino
countries.
John Witvliet, director of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, says the
efforts to be multilingual are all part of the Institute's mission to look
beyond West Michigan, and indeed, beyond North America, when considering the
questions surrounding Christian worship.
"We can learn a lot from other traditions, other cultures, other countries," he
says. "And we also hope to be a resource for those with whom we are
partnering."
Witvliet says the first round of materials is just the beginning. In the
coming months more Spanish and Korean resources will be added. And the
Institute will look at adding resources for other languages, including Chinese.
Contact John Witvliet at 616-957-6806
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