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Husband's
Hame Paul Puller
Bom (Place)
San QLego
Wife's
Maiden Name Sfinehez
Date ii/uM
Bom (Place) Havana
Date 2/20/if7
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Name Doria Florey
Address
City/State Mokona, Ill> 6(M8 ZIP Code
6(M48
SCHOOLING , ,,
High School gyad 5/22/62
City/State WayneaviUe, Ohio
College A,B, CinHi Bible Sem, 5/6? City/State 0^
Seminary/Graduate ^ *6/71 City/state
Cdliuribia Pniv,
.Ph.D. Cand. "
V/hen &\fliere BaptizecJ
City/state 195^ OwenevAlle Indiana. First Chriatian Church
FAMILY FACTS Mamied
New York| NiY*
Single
CHILDREN
Names
David
Place of Birth
Glen Ceve, New York
Month/Day/lear
9/V72
CHRISTIAN SERVICE
Where
Bethal, Ohio
What
Organiaty Song Bvangellat etc.
Youth Minister
When
5QJ$Z
1964y 10 months
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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Starting Date 11-7^
Second Term
Third Term
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Furlough Date
Furlough Date
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1-76
Mission Location Chiengmaiy Thailand
Mission Location
Mission Location
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Hame
Bom (Place) 3*^ Dlege
Date MtojlWi // U/U/'f't
Wife's
Maiden Name Maria Cristina Sanchez
Criatina Sanchez Bom (Place) La Habana, Cuba
Date 2/20/47
aide Drvie #3-L City/State N.Y., N.Y.
ZIP Code 10025
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Name Jamea and Deria Flerey
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SCHOOLING
High School City/state
College Richaend Prefeaaienal Inatitue City/State Richmend, Virginia
Seminary/Graduate Univeraity ef Cincinnati City/state Cincinnati Ohie
When & Where Baptized
City/state 1972f Key Yorky New Yerk
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CHILDREN
Names
David Jerald
Place of Birth
Glen Cove. New York
Month/Day/Year
CHRISTIAN SERVICE
Where What
4/72
Winchester, Kentucky Miniater Wife. SS Teacher, Music, etc* *69-70
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Volume 5 Number 3
South East Asia Evangelizing Mission
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INDONESIA h
Dear Christian l^riends and Co-laborers of
Christ;
Jesus said, "I'ray ye therefore the I.ord of
the harvest, that he send forth laborers into his
harvest." We rejoice that the Lord of the
harvest has been preparing Paul and Cris
I' uller to go into the thrilling work of world e-
vangelism! Specially as we see the need for
well-qualified missionaries to train Asian
CJiristian leaders in spreading the Cospel
through music, and as Bible college programs
are launched in new areas of Asia, ['aui and
Cris I' uller are vital additions to "the team" for
spreading the (iospel in South Hast Asia. The
Dii'ectors of the South l-last Asia K\'angelizing
Mission recommend I'aul and Cris to you for
your sending them as messengers for the Cos-
pel in Asia.
.Music is a vital part of the Christian life
and worship. However, many people around
the world find it just as difficult to enjoy Eu
ropean ( or American) music as they find it
unintelligible 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 Santos
Mr. and Mrs. Peli-r Siitjaibun
Mr. 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 than
our diatonic or chromatic scale. It would be
ridiculous, of course, for us to say, "If the
chromatic scale was good enough" for the
Apostle Paul, it's good enough for people in
every country today!" Paul probably did not
use music at all similar to our Western church
music today. Therefore, for more effective
spreading of the Gospel today, it is urgent that
Christians develop more indigenous music,
communicating the Gospel in the "musical lan
guage" of the people.
In the new Bible Institute in Thailand, as
well as in seminars and extension training pro
grams, Paul and Cris Fuller plan to teach
Christian music to many, many Asian Chris
tian leaders, with an initial term of two years
in Asia. Composers of new music need to be
trained, as well as vocalists and instrumental
ists. Especially as we face open doors through
radio, television, and other electronic mass
media, Christian music in the cultures of each
people becomes tremendously important.
We thank God for Paul and Cris Puller.
They are dedicated and well-trained, ready to
launch into a truly professional-quality work
of serving Christ through music. Also, Paul
loves to preach, having graduated from Cin
cinnati Bible Seminary and having had several
years' experience in preaching. Please pray
with us that they may obtain fully the support
they need, and that they will be able to reach
Thailand in 1974.
TO SPREAD THE
GOSPEL WITH
ASIAN MUSIC
Dear Christian Friends:
It has been with that feeling of "someone's
tugging on my shirtsleeve" known only to the
Christian that I have associated over the last
six years with brother LaVerne Morse. Of
course, we would both kiddingly agree today
that brother Morse would not tug on anyone's
shirtsleeve! Perhaps its more like dangling a
carrot. In any case, it was six years ago this
month, 1 believe, that his idea was first pre
sented to me with characteristic sincerity and
breadth of vision: "The Lord needs Christian
ethnomusicologists laboring in His vineyard;
why don't you go into that area of music,
Paul?" As I recall the occasion, my uncle
David llees, long an associate of the Morses as
a fellow missionary in Asia was visiting the
campus of the Cincinnati Bible Seminary,
where I had just graduated. We were all visit
ing in LaVerne's office when he raised the
idea, and it has been my companion since that
day
Thailand Lisu musician with stringed
instrument
ETHNOMUSIC-
OLOGY?
Ethno - what? To many of you folk read
ing this letter, the word may not be strange be
cause of Brother Morse. He has talked and
written about it in many places in connection
with Christian missions. UTiat it means, how
ever, is sometimes not even clear to ethno
musicologists. It is a new science, born in the
early part of the century and not offered in
universities until the mid-fifties. Plthnomusic-
ologists study music in culture. They some
times think of themselves as half anthropologist
half musicologist. Their study most often leads
to countries where European music is not the
major force, and most of their time is spent
trying to understand and interpret just what
makes up non-Western music.
"What," you may ask, "does this have to do
with the Great Commission of Christ? " The
answer is an easy one. Eastern people like
Eastern music. Southern people like southern
music (with a few exceptions!). Indigenous
(local) Christian music can instruct and inspire
people to the glory of God in a way that for-
^gn music can hardly match. I can scarcely
imagine anyone asking the Cluristian woman of
Burma to weeir modern American clothes to
every church meeting! I think I can safely say,
in spite of my male status, they would be un
comfortable! Sometimes it is exactly the same
with music. There is nothing sacred, nothing
superior about European hymnody (nor about
Gregorian chant, as the Catholics sometimes
claim). And when Christian leaders ask non-
Euro^ans to sing our songs, the leaders
usually do so because they know nothing else.
Sometimes it works; often it doesn't. Our goal
as Christian ethnomusicologists is to help
Christians use the music with which they are
most confortable for the praise of God and
edification of one another.
THE MAKING
OF A CHRISTIAN
ETHNOMUSIC-
OLOGIST
Brother Morse has suggested that 1 sketch
my background for SouthEast Asia Challenge!
readers, and perhaps, if you have come this
far with me, you will share some reminiscing.
I am as thankful for the Christian home where
I was reared as for anything. My folks not
only provided that (much frowned upon today)
strict, wonderful Christian environment, but
also from my age nine, increasingly expensive
piano, trumpet, and organ lessons on a
preacher's $350 per month salary! By the time
we came to Ohio (1961, my age 16), those
lessons were $40 per month! But they provided
me with a fine practical music background
(including symphony appearances and many
recitals) which has been indispensable. When
the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music offered a
small scholarship in 1962, however, I was not
too disposed to accept it, knowing the (what I
would call, with apologies, pagan) environ
ment there. Instead, I planned to spend one
year at the Cincinnati Bible Seminary first. Ah,
but that tugging at the sleeve! Something tug
ged that year, and I recall it again with great
fondness. The one year stretched into five; I
went ahead and took the regular, ministerial
degree A-B. (Bible). I had made the decision
at this time to try pushing down two broad
pathways at the same time: Biblical education
and continued music education. So I continued
part-time work at the Cincinnati Conservatory
of Music. Diuring these years, and those which
followed, I held a 1 year youth ministry at
Bethel, Ohio; a one and a half year music
ministry at Madisonville, Cincinnati; a 4 year
preaching ministry at Winchester, Ky.; and a
1 year preaching ministry at Knoxville, Ky.
There were also playing, accompanying, sing
ing, teaching, and leading music in many
church meetings. In 1968 I was accepted
(Primarily through the efforts of Mme. Olga
Conus, my long-time piano teacher) into the
Masters (piano) program at the Cincinnati
Conservatory, ffnishing the degree in 1971. It
was here that Maria Cristina Sanchez also took
her Master of Music (Education) degree.
Little did "Cris" know her fate. Having
fled Cuba in 1960, however, she had known
hard times before! We were married in 1969.
Cris had studied music for her bachelor's de
gree at Virginia Commonwealth University,
earlier taking work at a fine Christian high
school in St. Louis. What wondrous things
the Lord hath wrought! In working on her,
however, the Lord has not spared fire (does
He ever? ). Cris worked full-time while in
Cincinnati as a guidance counselor. Today
she is working full-time as a mother, while
baby-sitting full-time with three other children
to balance our budget. She endured a com
plete change in everything while 8 3/4months
pregnant; that is, we moved to New York, liv
ing with friends, one week before our son
David was born. Before you ladies roast
me completely for such behavior, be reminded
that Peter Su^aibun's wife Ruth was 8 3/4
months pregnant when they moved to America
from Thailand (sorry Peter).
Perhaps Fd still better explain. Finally
able to respond affirmatively to LaVerne's
suggestion, I had applied late in 1971 to the
Ph.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, advo
cate, or approve of Pentecostoiism, neo - pentecostalism, "speaking in tongues,"
present - day "prophecies", etc., of the so - called "charismatic movement" of
today.
FORWARDING AGENTS:
James and Doris Florey
Box 581
Mokeno, Illinois 60448
MISSION SERVICES
BOX 177
KEMPTON, INDIANA 46049
Address Return Requested
SPONSORING CHURCHES:
First Christian Church and
Maple Lawn Christian Church
Joliet, Illinois
W '"''Ge
riOV- PlOriT OI6ANICATIOV
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Playing CospcJ rcconiings uitb music in South past Asia
accepted. Thus the Lord was able to shower
His 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 weeks
before the beginning of school. This year (my
last year of college? ? !!), I have been blessed
with two teaching positions to help our budget,
one at Columbia University, one at Mannes
College of Music. It is interesting that back
in '69 when Cris first learned of the possibility
that I might enter the field of ethnomusicology,
her reaction was not exactly warm! She said,
"Don't you ever . . . AH that strange-sound
ing music? ? Now, however, we both are tre
mendously interested in other music cultures,
even after getting so deeply in the European
THE FUTURE
Chiengmai is our destination, and the new
Bible Institute our future home. We are hoping
to arrive there in October, 1974. We are pray
ing that many churches will take the oppor
tunity of hearing about the Bible Institute be
tween 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 fi
nancial support and also finish our long pre
paration.
To my way of thinking, the most critical
mission thought for our day is one I often
heard from Prof. G.M. Elliott: "This gener
ation must evangelize this generation!" The
victories of the past are wonderful, but they
do not automatically bring Christian off
spring. Moreover, the Christian victories of
the past in South East Asia were relatively
small. So, we are just beginning. Again and
again we hear how this age is different, but
the thought keeps interrupting me, "No, it is
also the same!" People are the same. They
need .lesus.
The Bible Institute in Chiengmai will serve
a crucial function, not only in presenting Jesus,
but especially in adding "to your virtue, know
ledge". 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 vonnii
child iiilh hfs I'lofhcr,
' iiiiil fell doiin, mill iiorshijijied
him; ..."
^ Anlthen- 2: 11
>Oil
IM&.
Dirccfors 'jj South liast Asia fivcingelizirif^ S\ission.
PRAY FOR US!
As the South I'last Asia Iwangeiizing Mis
sion grows, we urgently need your prayer--
support. We serve a (lod who answers prayers!
In just several months from now, i'eter and
KulJi Sutjaibun and their two children are due
to leave for Thailand. Together with Daniel
Kalnin, I'aul and ITls Fuller, and others, they
are looking forward to launching the full-scale
Bible Institute, together with Theological Fdu-
cation by Fxtension programs. .Multiplyingof
trained Asian Christian leaders is the objective!
LaVerne and Lois Morse, in the over-all
coordinating of the work as well as speaking in
churches, and rallies, and broadcasting by
radio to South Fast Asia. and writing
MILFIONS OF LFTTKICS (that's an exagger
ation), and training of new missionaries, are
kept busy with the work to which they have
dedicated their lives, for Asia, as well as for
other parts of the world.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Haven, as directors of
the Bible Correspondence Course work of the
Mission, have an increasing body of students
in Burma, India, Thailand, and other coun
tries. The Bible Correspondence Courses in
deed are a tremendous tool as part of the total
"team outreach" of the .South Fast Asia Mission.
At the same time, The Cospel radiobroad
casts in the Lisu, Rawang, and Kuchin lan
guages continue SIXTFF.V TIMFS A WFFK
ON THF AIR! 'i'ens of thousands of Chris
tians in the heart of Asia are strengthened by
these broadcasts, and encouraged to be more
effective in standing and reaching out for Christ.
The doors for spreading the Oospel in Asia
are tremendous, but we urgently need your
support through your prayers and also
through your RFGCLAH financial giving.
Contributions should be sent to the Mission
Treasurers, Mr. and Mrs. )ames k'lorey. Box
581, Mokena, Illinois 60448. The Floreys
serve as Treasurers, appointed by the Board
of Directors of the South Fcist Asia Evange
lizing Mission.
Editorial
Ethnomusicology"Jesus loves me, this Iknow, For
the 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 in
Chinese. The words were strangely fascinating; the tune
unmistakably familiar. The missionary said this was one
very favorite song with Chinese Christians. Well, we
liked it; why shouldn't they?
The ensuing years have changed a lot of those early
impressions, but not the wide appeal of "Jesus Loves
Me." Now comes Professor LaVerne Morse, of the Cin
cinnati Bible College, with a privately-distributed and
variously-published article, "Ethnomusicology: a New
Frontier," which talks about the tunes that appeal and do
not appeal to folk outside the Western world. Musical
scales are not the same all over the world, he says, and
vast numbers of people in Asia and Africa use essentially
what he calls a pentatonic scale. That is, they use only
five notes, rather than seven, in moving through what we
call an octave fromone keynote to the same one higher or
lower. The Imlf-step notes that we call fa and ti are
strange to them, hard to distinguish, and still Imrdei to
sing. These folk are downright uncomfortable with music
that is obviously foreign because it contains all thosefas
and tis.
"Jesus Loves Me" uses only the five, full-step notes in
the scale. It sounds like home, and they like it. The same
is true of other widely-loved Christian songs"Amaz
ing Grace," "Nothing But the Blood," "Only Trust
Him," "Nearer, My God, to Thee," "How Firm a
Foundation," and others that are being discovered and
prepared for use in areas where more palpably Western
music labels Christianity as a foreign religion.
Don't get the idea, though, that deleting two notes,
from the scale would create an instant universal language
in music. There are other variations, including patterns of
rhythm and melody; harmonies, unisons, and disso
nances; types of instrumental accompaniment; and qual
ity of singingsuch as vibrato, falsetto, etc. Musically,
not all people speak the same language. The folk in each
culture know what is familiar and comfortable to them.
Since music, like the poetry that provides the lyrics for its
singing, is deeply involved with the emotions, folk are
moved or unmoved, attracted or repelled, by music.
It's a field worthy of greater study and better applica
tion than we restoration-minded Christians have gener
ally given it. Hopefully, studies like that of Professor
Morse will call attention to it, and students like Paul
Fuller will use it to the glory of God. Paul, a graduate of
the Cincinnati Bible Seminary, is currently a doctoral
candidate at Columbia University, specializing in East
Asian ethnomusicology, and soon he will go to work with
the South East Asia Evangelizing Mission.
for April 21.1974
Basically his work will be in the field of translation, so
the gospel of Christ may be expressed and conveyed to
each nation in its own musical language. And translation
is no new experience in Christianity. The Holy Spirit
served as translator on the Day of Pentecost, providing
each hearer with the message in his own native tongue
(Acts 2:5-11). Since that day the translation of the in
spired Word, spoken and written, has not ceased, as it
followed the languages of men fi*om Greek to Latin, and
German, French, English, and more than a thousand
other tongues. It will continue, if the Lord tarries, until
the Bible is printed in the native language of the last
remote tribe. As living languages change, the gospel that
was first written in the conversational Greek of the first
century will be made available in the conversational lan
guages of common people everywhere.
The musical language has been translated, too. How
strange to us would sound the solos (the New Testament
contains no clear reference to congregational singing) in
first-century meetings, with their stringed accompani
ment (probable from association with the Psalms), and
-with certainly none of the parts-singing that was de
veloped nine centuries later by the monk Guido of
Arezzo. Gregorian chants, which probably come fairly
close to the Hebrew-based musicd expressions of the
earliest church, sound like nothing familiar to most of us!
We much prefer the words, tunes, and musical settings
developed within the past hundred years to express our
New Testament faith in terms of American, perhaps En
glish, culture.
Why, then, should we expect Christians everywhere to
sing our songs the way we sing them? Yet Professor
Morse can cite a recently published Christian hymnbook
in Japan, with no more than ten hymns supplied with
Japanese-composed tunes. Our Japanese brethren must
sing the other 724 hymns to Western tunes, if they sing
them at all! Some of the Western tunes create real
culture-shock among Orientals, Some translation is still
in order.
Ethnomusicologythe study of cultural expressions in
musicneed not be limited to what is long ago or far
away. Most of us have need of it within our own congre
gations. Each of us has his own musical tastes and pref
erences, firmly rooted in the way he was brought up, and
deeply affecting his attitudes toward the church and its
program. A song or tune may reach us with the healing
touch of a familiar friend, or it may disturb or irritate us,
depending on where we went to school, and when! And
each of us is likely to feel that his preferences are so right
that they should be accepted by all.
Perhaps the best possible meeting ground in music is in
the understanding, the simplicity, and the message of
"Jesus Loves Me."
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