{"id":32610,"date":"2012-05-21T00:45:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T00:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/fernando_ortega_from_ccm_hitmaker_to_anglican_liturgy_minister\/"},"modified":"2012-05-21T00:45:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T00:45:48","slug":"fernando_ortega_from_ccm_hitmaker_to_anglican_liturgy_minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32610","title":{"rendered":"(Cross Rhythms) Fernando Ortega: From CCM hitmaker to Anglican liturgy minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commented Fernando, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t that weird, a Mexican Anglican? When Ruby, my daughter, was born, we were attending an Anglican church here in Albuquerque, and nobody in the church knew about what I did for a living. That was part of what drew us to the church: nobody there that was into contemporary Christian music, so we could go and just be part of the church. Then slowly people found out that I was a musician; I got asked to play a couple times. They finally asked if I would consider becoming the worship leader there. It was perfect, because I was trying to get off the road, because my daughter had just been born, and I didn&#8217;t want to be gone from her, I didn&#8217;t want to miss anything. It was like God opened this door. We&#8217;ve been part of this Anglican church for a year and a half now. Anglicans who are listening take it for granted &#8211; but we&#8217;ve never, as American evangelicals, ordered our worship or our devotional experience according to the narrative of Christ&#8217;s life: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Lent, Holy Week. Every week has a theme, so I&#8217;m finding hymns, and having to write hymns, that are specific to those themes every week. That&#8217;s just not part of evangelicalism, it&#8217;s a very general sense of worship. You know how modern worship is: &#8216;Lord, I love you, I bless you, I thank you for your grace&#8217;. But you don&#8217;t have songs that are specific to holy days, like the Transfiguration or something like that &#8211; you don&#8217;t go find contemporary praise songs that are about that. So I&#8217;ve ended up having to write those songs, or find old, traditional songs. It&#8217;s really influenced my writing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossrhythms.co.uk\/articles\/music\/Fernando_Ortega_From_CCM_hitmaker_to_Anglican_liturgy_minister\/48582\/p1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commented Fernando, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t that weird, a Mexican Anglican? When Ruby, my daughter, was born, we were attending an Anglican church here in Albuquerque, and nobody in the church knew about what I did for a living. That was part of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32610\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,42,419,183,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelicals","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}