Ron Man studied music at the University of Maryland (B.M. in Theory & Composition, 1974; M.M. in Conducting, 1975). After coming to Christ in March 1975, he did an additional year of conducting study at the State Music Academy in Munich, Germany, then attended Dallas Theological Seminary, receiving a Th.M. degree in 1982. From 1983-88 Ron was on the pastoral staff of the International Chapel in Vienna, Austria. Then from 1988-2000 he served as Pastor of Worship and Music at First Evangelical Church in Memphis, Tennessee. Since August 2000 he and his family have been living in Germany, where Ron serves as director of the department of Worship and Creative Arts for Greater Europe Mission; his primary focus is to travel and teach on the biblical and theological foundations of worship at schools and churches in various countries in Eastern and Western Europe, including (so far) Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Holland and Germany. Ron has published both popular and academic articles in such publications as Worship Leader, Creator, Church Musician Today, Reformation and Revival Journal, and Bibliotheca Sacra. All of these articles may be accessed at http://www.worr.org/.