So Much Fruit From Gracia Soberana Música

There’s no doubt that for many years now, our music has played a significant part in seeing Sovereign Grace Churches planted and strengthened across the world. Not least in Latin America. With that in mind, here’s an update from Bob Kauflin, Director of Sovereign Grace Music, as he talks about Gracia Soberana Música…

The Lord has kindly enabled us to serve Spanish speaking churches increasingly through Gracia Soberana Música this past year. Fabrizio Rodulfo has been leading these efforts and the fruit is both abundant and encouraging. Here are just a few of the highlights.

For the first time, we released a Spanish version of an album, Knowing God, only three weeks after the English release. We used that as an opportunity to rebrand from “Sovereign Grace Music en Español” to “Gracia Soberana Música.” That made the name more accessible to Spanish speakers and created a stronger connection to our family of churches known as Iglesias Gracia Soberana.

This year we also launched a fully Spanish website identical to the Sovereign Grace music website but with all our Spanish (and Portuguese) music. As part of the website, we translated and posted a number of my blogposts from my Worship Matters blog.

In July, we released an album of 12 newly translated hymns entitled Himnos. It contains seven traditional hymns and five modern hymns from Sovereign Grace Music. It’s already racked up 1.5 million streams on Spotify.

In an effort to serve Hispanic churches with theological training in music and worship, we started producing an AI dubbed version of the Worship Matters Video Intensive. I speak a tiny bit of Spanish, but this makes me sound fluent. We hope to have all the videos translated before the end of the year. We also began a fully Spanish podcast hosted by Fabrizio and Luis Carlos Asencio, who serves with Mario Figueroa at Vine Church, in Tampa, Florida. The podcast is called “Acorde a la Gracia” (In Accord with Grace) and is modeled after Sound Plus Doctrine, contextualized for Latin America. 

We also hosted eleven writers in Louisville for the second Spanish Songwriters retreat. The spirit of unity, faith, and joy, not to mention the great songs, were all evidence of the Lord’s kindness to us. We plan to record a live album based on Ephesians next March in Juarez, which we’ll release at the Fieles a Su Llamado conference in August. Providentially, the Files conference this year will be similar in content to some of the WorshipGod conferences we’ve been hosting in the US. 

Fabrizio also had the opportunity to travel to David del Castillo’s church in Santa Cruz, Iglesia Gracia Soberana, to share our values with area leaders and musicians and to strengthen the connection of GSM with our Latin churches.

We’re hoping in the future to continue doing what we’ve been doing, and also expanding the reach of Gracia Soberana Música through translating and writing children’s songs and Christmas songs. Similar to Sovereign Grace Music, our heart is to serve Hispanic churches by producing Christ-exalting songs and training for the Church from our local churches. 

We’d appreciate your prayers for all these endeavors, and are grateful for the opportunities the Lord has given us to proclaim the glorious gospel in song to our Hispanic brothers and sisters throughout Latin America and other parts of the world.