Mozambican Worship
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Enjoy this worship clip of our Mozambican brothers and sisters in Christ. This video was taken on our vision trip to Mozambique in September of 2007. Boy can they sing!
This special anniversary service in the capital city of Maputo is much more formal in nature compared with most others you would find in Mozambique. They are singing in their mother tongue, Changana, not the Portuguese one might expect. It was our observation that their exuberance and passion comes out most clearly when they are praising God in their first language, their heart language. This reminds us why it is our goal to learn the heart language of the people of the Island of Mozambique–Makhuwa.
Marian and Hayden love listening and singing this music. At a recent Christian school chapel service, where we were invited to share, Heather and Marian taught the kids this chorus “Akuna ofana naje” (where the j in naje has a y sound). The basic meaning of the song is that there is no one like Jesus. You can look all around the world (turning around), you can look really hard (hand above the eyes), and you can look all through the earth (hands down digging) but you will never find anyone else like Jesus. That theme reminds me of Peter’s response to Jesus when many of His disciples were leaving: “So Jesus said to the Twelve, ‘Do you want to go away as well?’ Simon Peter answered him, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life” (John 6.67-8).