Emberá children’s worship
In Panama, an elderly Emberá believer sang song after song for the six young people sitting in front of her. Suddenly, they erupted with applause, “That’s the song!” The traditional...
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Trauma Healing
Lament traditions are common in African cultures. Harriet Hill, director of the American Bible Society’s Trauma Healing Institute, found that when African Christians understood the structure of lament Psalms in the...
Mwani worship
Wendy Atkins, who works with Africa Inland Mission, led a songwriting workshop with believers from four people groups in Mozambique. One of those, the largely unreached Mwani, previously had no…
Choctaw hymns
New England missionaries brought their hymn book to the Choctaw land of Mississippi in the early 1800s. Soon after, the Choctaw and missionaries among them were removed to Oklahoma. By...
Multicultural Worship
In a refugee community in the southern United States, Korean, Syrian, Tedim Burmese, and Caucasian Americans meditated on I Corinthians 12 before crafting a multicultural song that intermingled common chord…