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Tanya Regli Witte de Cedren

Tanya Regli is a MDiv student at Princeton Theological Seminary. Her field education for ministry has been at Nuevas Fronteras Presbyterian Church in Plainsfield, New Jersey, and at St. John’s Church at Diocesan Center in Norristown, Pennsylvania, her current placement. Regli comes from a thirty-year career running non-profits in Philadelphia and Mexico City. Originally from Colombia and Venezuela, she came to the United States for her bachelor’s degree at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Afterwards she worked with immigrant communities in Boston and later got her master’s in social work and another master’s in law and social policy from Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Policy. On completion, Regli ran a microlending organization in Mexico City. Eventually returning to the US to be the executive director of The Arc of Philadelphia, a disability rights organization. When she is not working, she enjoys spending time with her family, playing music, and cooking together. Regli feels passionate about her call to serve in ministry to bilingual communities which greatly enrich the Christian Church.

Terry York

Terry W. York es Decano Asociado de Asuntos Académicos y Profesor de Ministerio Cristiano y Música Eclesiástica en el Seminario Teológico George W. Truett de la Universidad de Baylor. Se unió a la facultad en 1998 después de servir tres años como Pastor Asociado de la Iglesia Bautista Park Cities en Dallas, Texas. Dr. York recibió la licenciatura en Artes de la Universidad Bautista de California, y su maestría en Música Eclesiástica y su doctorado en Artes Musicales del Seminario Teológico Bautista de Nueva Orleans.

Terry W. York is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Christian Ministry and Church Music at Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary. He joined the faculty in 1998 after serving three years as the Associate Pastor of Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. He received the Bachelor of Arts degree from California Baptist University and his Master of Church Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

Joel Sierra

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Joel Sierra es originario de Monterrey, México. Por su interés en los fenómenos de la biósfera, se graduó como Biólogo en 1985. Para examinar lo sublime, estudió la Maestría en Divinidades en el Seminario Bautista del Este (1989); y para poner atención a quien está entre las arañas y los ángeles, la Maestría en Humanidades en la UdeM (2001). Tiene doctorado en Renovación de la Iglesia por la Universidad Eastern en Filadelfia (2009), y en Ética por el Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (2020).  Desde hace treinta años ha sido pastor en iglesias de México y de Nicaragua, y profesor en diversos seminarios. Siempre ha combinado el pastorado con la docencia universitaria. En su enseñanza y predicación utiliza la música de todo el mundo, y también la suya propia, como recurso para el ministerio. Actualmente es pastor de la Comunidad Bautista Jireh, en Monterrey. Junto a su esposa Eva, tienen tres hijos, una hija y una nuera.

 

Joel Sierra is originally from Monterrey, Mexico. Because of his interest in the phenomena of the biosphere, he graduated as a Biologist in 1985. To examine the sublime, he did the Master of Divinity in Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary (1989); and to pay attention to who is between the spiders and the angels, the Master of Humanities at UdeM (2001). He has a doctorate in Church Renewal from Eastern University in Philadelphia (2009), and in Ethics from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (2020).  For thirty years he has been a pastor in churches in Mexico and Nicaragua, and professor in several seminaries. He has always shared his workload as a pastor and a university professor. In his teaching and preaching he uses music from all over the world, as well as his own, as a resource for ministry. He currently pastors Jireh Baptist Community in Monterrey. Together with his wife Eva, they have three sons, a daughter and a daughter-in-law.

Maria Monteiro

Editora

Maria Monteiro nació en Recife, Brazil y actualmente ocupa el puesto de Lecturer en Música Sacra en Baylor University, en la ciudad de Waco, Texas. Ella también trabaja como Directora de Música en la Primera Iglesia Bautista Mexicana de San Antonio, Texas. Antes de unirse a Baylor, Maria enseñó música y adoración por diecisiete años en la Universidad Bautista de las Américas en San Antonio. Su experiencia como docente universitaria y directora de música congregacional le ha provisto una conexión esencial entre sus intereses académicos en la música sacra y la vivencia práctica musical en una congregación local. Maria cumplió su carrera universitaria (1987) y su maestría (1991) en el área de historia de la música en Baylor University. Así también tiene un certificado de estudios de posgrado en musicología (1998) en Duke University. En 2021, Maria obtuvo su doctorado (PhD) en el área de música sacra en Baylor University.

Originally from Recife, Brazil, Maria Monteiro serves as Lecturer in Church Music at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and as music director at Primera Iglesia Bautista Mexicana (First Mexican Baptist Church), in San Antonio. Before joining the Baylor faculty, she taught for seventeen years at Baptist University of the Américas, also in San Antonio. These roles and activities have provided the essential connection between her academic interest in church music and the practical involvement in the musical life of a present-day congregation. Maria holds a Master of Music (1991) and a Bachelor of Music (1987) degrees in Music History and Literature, from Baylor, a certificate of graduate studies in Musicology from Duke University (1998), and a Ph.D. in Church Music (2021) from Baylor University.