C2 CALL AND RESPONSE: MUSICAL JOURNEYS IN MISSION

Abstract

“Language learning is communication is ministry!”  And so the Master’s level class in language and culture learning[1] began at Fuller Seminary with Tom and Betty Sue Brewster; it was the summer of 1981.  As I followed the Brewsters’ lectures and went out into the local community attempting to learn Mandarin, I was struck with the strong parallels between music and language learning. I had recently returned to the United States to study at Fuller Theological Seminary after three years of what was then considered short–term ministry in Nairobi, Kenya (1978–1980) at the then fledgling Daystar Communications.  Little did I know at that time, how my own ministry would follow the concepts contained in the pithy saying of the course. [1] MB530 Language/Culture Learning and Mission.