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About the New Study Bible from SBPH

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Ecuadorian Pastor Contributes to Newly Published Spanish Study Bible

The Biblia de Estudio Mundo Hispano, published by Texas-based Editorial Mundo Hispano/Casa Bautista de Publicaciones

Two decades ago the corridors and patients’ rooms of a hospital in Quito served as Joselito Orellana’s pulpit, but a newly published Spanish study Bible promises to broaden his reach beyond Ecuador.

Orellana, now a pastor and seminary rector, once served as a chaplain at HCJB Global’s Hospital Vozandes-Quito (HVQ), leading Bible studies for staff, conducting chapel services in waiting areas and visiting patients to pray with them and their relatives.

Joselito Orellana

During the last five years he has authored commentaries on the gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke as part of the Biblia de Estudio Mundo Hispano, now available in bookstores. He was one of 57 Latin American theologians who contributed to the study Bible, published by Texas-based Editorial Mundo Hispano/Casa Bautista de Publicaciones (Hispanic World Publishers/Baptist Spanish Publishing House).

The greatest value of this study Bible, as Orellana sees it, is its basis in a Latino perspective. “It was published in the U.S. but with a Latin American mindset with learned authors from Latin America,” he said.

“The best commendation I could give to Joselito’s writing in the commentaries and in the notes he provided for the study Bible is that his work is purely Latino, not a translation of other scholars,” concurs David Sills, a former missionary to Ecuador with the Southern Baptist denomination. The two men, both with doctorates, worked together during the 1990s at the Seminario Teológico Bautista del Ecuador(Ecuadorian Baptist Theological Seminary) in Quito.

“He writes as a Latino to Latinos and publishes through Latino publishers, giving his work a welcome voice and powerful influence in the lives of Latin Americans,” Sills explained. “I’d like to see the study Bible used as a core resource for pastors throughout Latin America who are highly literate but have never had the opportunity for theological education.”

Sills later became rector of the Quito seminary, and he still returns for frequent seminars in Ecuador between semesters at the Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Ky., where he teaches Christian missions and cultural anthropology.

Formerly, cultural anthropology “wasn’t always held in high regard. In fact, it was completely discounted,” Orellana told Duval Rueda on Apuntes Pastorales (Pastoral Notes) on Radio Station HCJB in Quito. “But in the world today, as well as within biblical research and in missiology, if you don’t study cultural anthropology you cannot understand the text.”

Orellana also employed such theological disciplines as exegesis (determining textual meaning), translating the original Greek language of the New Testament gospels. Biblical anthropology and archeology also served to bring a fresh perspective on the age-old books chronicling the birth, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. To a lesser degree, Orellana touches on apologetics (defense of the gospel) because, as he told Rueda, “the Bible defends itself.”

Orellana described to Rueda three general categories of Bibles: a) paraphrased versions, b) dynamic translation using a dynamic equivalence of translated words and c) literal translations from the original languages. The new study Bible lands between dynamic and literal, according to Orellana. He offers his readers such study helps as color coding to indicate whether comments and notes come from translation (exegesis), cultural context investigations or other study areas.

David Sills

“I have read through Joselito’s commentary on Luke—every single word of the biblical text and all of his comments—and I did it as a component of my quiet time (devotional study time),” offered Sills. “It is written in a devotional style, yet retains an academic feel by references to the original Greek, references to other scholars and so forth.”

HCJB Global’s Chuck Howard recalls taking students from the Alliance Academy International to help a church in the small town of Alluriquín where he met Orellana some 25 years ago. “Joselito was one of the promising young people in that church, and it was a joy to encourage him with both his music—he has a beautiful singing voice and plays the guitar well—and his preaching,” Howard said.

Several years afterwards, Roger Reimer, who formerly directed the mission’s healthcare ministries in Ecuador (including HVQ), saw in Orellana’s writing “a tool that I wanted to encourage as he wrote articles for hospital tract use that were clearly appropriate for the context of a hospital.”

Another former supervisor, David Kehrli, recalled that Orellana prepared sermon notes to accompany his message each time he preached at HVQ. “To this day I have those notes and I still use them,” said Kehrli, a pharmacist who serves on the pastoral team of a church in Racine, Wis. “I recognized that Joselito had a very high level of Bible learning.”

Orellana stays busy with responsibilities that range from preaching at Iglesia Bautista Universitaria (University Baptist Church) to seminary work were he presently is the rector. Frequently he hosts teams of U.S. seminarians accompanying Sills for hands-on experience in the mission field. His wife, Anita, accomplished in her own right with a university degree, and the couple’s daughters conduct Christian education seminars in Ecuador.

“He manages because he has a wife who shares his burden for ministry and submits to his leadership,” observed Sills. “His daughters understand that ministry is a family calling as well as their dad’s work.”

Commenting further on this balance between academia and praxis, Sills said of the Ecuadorian author, “He cares about writing as well as preaching. He could never do just one to the exclusion of the other without having a fire shut up in his bones.”

Orellana (left) and Sills (center) encouraged a group near Ingapirca parish in Ecuador. These individuals had decided to leave their traditional religion to become evangelicals, which brought community pressures upon them to conform.

With my big partner Dr. David Sills in Cañar-Ecuador

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Joselito and Anita Orellana-Ecuador

We have served in full time missions to our home country of Ecuador since 2003. We serve in both formal and informal pastoral training, theological education, as well as pastoral and family ministries. Joselito is the senior theology teacher of the Ecuadorian Baptist Theological Seminary, an itinerant preacher, co pastor at University Baptist Church from Quito, and member of the Board of Directors of Palm Missionary Ministries in Ecuador. He is also a frequent writer for the Spanish Baptist Publishing House, from El Paso TX-USA. Anita works with women and children, both in the church and through outreach. They have three biological daughters and have adopted their niece.

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October 2012


Dear friend and supporter of Joselito Orellana, his ministry, and family;


I am writing to you personally on behalf of Joselito. Like most missionaries he is reluctant to plead for more support. His monthly letters, always include that as a prayer need. But give little more information.

The situation is that he only receives about 50% of the support that he needs to support the family and ministry expenses. During the summer it was closer to 25%.

What would really help him would be more donors. You support him faithfully. Won’t you tell other mission-minded people you know of his wonderful work? Is your church supporting him? It is almost impossible for an Ecuadorian who does not travel to the United States on Home Ministry Assignment, to expand his support. The most effective spokespeople are you, who know him.

If you need materials, such as old prayer letters or information, you can contact me at the Coral Gables address on this letterhead, or Joselito, himself by email: Dr. Joselito Orellana PhD., chelomg7@hotmail.com  or Joselito Orellana BB, joselitoblog@gmail.com

Blessings to one and all,

Bill Quesenberry

PALM Ministries Treasurer

www.palmministries.com  

SEPTEMBER UPDATE

MISSIONARY PRAYER LETTER, SEPTEMBER 2012

“HE WHO TESTIFIES TO THESE THINGS SAYS, YES, I AM COMING SOON” REV. 22:20

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OUR FAMILY

We want to give special greetings from Quito. This month it was very busy for us. But the most marvelous thing it was to serve together as family in few places around our country. Our daughters are using their special training with mimic, puppets and clowns. Galilee and Bethlehem got their happy birthday this month; Galilee in September twenty eight (twelve years old); and Bethlehem September thirty (eight year old)

Please continue praying for us and our ministry, and also for the increasing our economic support. Send, please, your special offering to:

Mr. David Geiger: PALM Missionary Ministry; P.O. Box 1971; Melrose, FL 32666-1971

OUR MINISTRY

Some important ministry activities through this month:

• Joselito was preaching in the opened to the scholar year in our Charles Spurgeon Baptist School, at Pifo.

• Mission trip To Santo Domingo city; we offered few conferences about Christian education congress and pastoral counseling; sharing my books and preaching in the night. We had 35 students. Also visiting two local churches.

• Joselito was preaching every Saturday about Ephesians in the Youth ministry of our UBC. Anita is leading this ministry.

• Joselito was sharing special conferences for parents and students at LBCS for civic national holiday, talking about the special legal regulations of the government on education.

• Joselito shared a conference for Christian’s couples of our home. Talking about the topic: How to teach the sexuality to our kids.

• We had a family mission trip to Otavalo, to visit evangelical church: Teaching biblical doctrine, Christian marriages and answering many questions about prophets, apostles, tongues, etc.

MISCELLANEOUS

• We continue our normal tasks in our home church, like: Preaching, teaching, leading few ministries as theological education (Lyceum), youth ministry; and systemic pastoral counseling.

• Joselito was invited to the HCJB world radio, for a special interview in pastoral radio program, to talk about his personal y academic experience as writer of the New Study Bible (SBPH-Texas)

• I was coordinating all the logistic for the visit of mission group from KY, to work teaching to indigenous pastors and leaders in Tambo (Cañar province) Dr. David Sills was the leader there.

OUR PRAYERS REQUEST & NEEDS

• Pray please for the increasing of our economic support and new supporters/donors for us.

• For my future book project about Healthy Christian Marriages.

• For the economic provision and divine protection to our daughters.

With love in Christ,

Joselito & Anita Orellana (Galatians 2:20)

Missionaries with Palm Missionary



The Orellana Family 2012