wfn.org | Jorge Lockward to be Music Leader at RCCongress 2010

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> Jorge Lockward

Music Leader, Lecturer/Consultant on Liturgy and Global Music

> RCCongress 2010:

Leader for Gathering and Celebrating the Sacred

Jorge Lockward, a native of the Dominican Republic, has served as consultant on Global Music for several denominational hymnals.

He edited Tenemos Esperanza, a trilingual

(Spanish, Portuguese, English) songbook and recording of congregational song from Latin America, published in 2003 by GBGMusik.

He is the cofounder and conductor-in-residence of Cántico Nuevo (New Song), a worship-and-arts ecumenical project in New York City.

As a song leader, Jorge has offered his gifts in a variety of ecumenical settings including the 9th Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

? Our worship leader, Jorge Lockward, brought a plethora of multi-cultural music to add to the traditional hymns and choruses that made the event exciting and inclusive.  ?

~ Bree Noble, singer/songwriter, writing about the 2007 California-Pacific United Methodist Annual Conference

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