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deepocean
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This is a video of a Samoan firefighting crew singing a song of praise thanks to God for His protection.
Not only are they good singers, but the spirit of their song really touched my heart.

The news article says the tune is called "Fa’afetai i le Atua," which translates to "thank God in heaven."

https://www.ksl.com/?sid=46113...w-sings-as-they-work

For some reason I'm having difficulty embedding the youtube video, but this is the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=66&v=De9hDyIN6JY
 
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The language is Samoan, but the tune that they're singing is a Mormon hymn: "Israel, Israel, God is Calling".

Here's the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing it in English:



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deepocean
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I thought the tune sounded familiar. I'm surprised the KSL reporter didn't pick up on that.

Thank you, Sap. Smile
 
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The same melody is used for "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" a very popular hymn among Lutherans when I was a kid.



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That's beautiful.
A gift that keeps on giving, from the missionaries to Samoa.
There is another of their videos on YouTube, singing in Samoan the tune I know as "Hawaii Aloha".

I must say I really love a men's chorus. "Muscular Christianity" was once a thing in this country.

PHPaul, when we were kids Lutherans--and Presbyterians and Methodists--still sang hymns. No longer, apparently.


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That's beautiful.
A gift that keeps on giving, from the missionaries to Samoa.


I agree. I'm grateful for everything I find that is uplifting.
 
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BTW deepocean, one of my favorite Psalms is 104, that includes these lines:

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24 O Lord, how manifold are your works!
In wisdom you have made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.
25 Yonder is the sea, great and wide,
creeping things innumerable are there,
living things both small and great.
26 There go the ships,
and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it.


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As a young whipper snapper I have to say that I much prefer hymns to modern praise music. That being said there are still some churches that do both. My Baptist church has an excellent mixture of old with new.
 
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PHPaul, when we were kids Lutherans--and Presbyterians and Methodists--still sang hymns. No longer, apparently.


Along about 1980, the Lutheran Church (LCMS) completely changed the liturgy I had known and loved since I was in diapers. Also changed the hymnal with new hymns and actively discouraged the singing of the old favorites. Most were not even included in the new hymnals.

Shallow of me perhaps, but that pissed me right off and is a big part of the reason I drifted away from the church. It was just unrecognizable.



Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.
 
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Along about 1980, the Lutheran Church (LCMS) completely changed the liturgy I had known and loved since I was in diapers. Also changed the hymnal with new hymns and actively discouraged the singing of the old favorites. Most were not even included in the new hymnals.

Shallow of me perhaps, but that pissed me right off and is a big part of the reason I drifted away from the church. It was just unrecognizable.


Still go to a fairly large traditional Lutheran Church here which still sings a lot of the old songs, although mixed in with a quite a few that I don't know or care for. Daughter goes to a huge Lutheran Church here that is all contemporary. Not for me!
 
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BTW deepocean, one of my favorite Psalms is 104, that includes these lines:

quote:
24 O Lord, how manifold are your works!
In wisdom you have made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.
25 Yonder is the sea, great and wide,
creeping things innumerable are there,
living things both small and great.
26 There go the ships,
and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it.


Thank you for sharing this. I have read and appreciated your comments of faith every time you have posted them in LBJ's thread and other places here. I also appreciate the faithful comments of others here.
 
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