Praise Him, Africa!
Remember the many songs of the Christian faith you learned as a child?
Children love to sing praise to Jesus!
As a teacher, you’ve seen the value of using music to teach the Christian faith. You’ve seen the joy that music brings to a child’s life, and how words set to song become part of memories that last forever.
In Africa too, music is a huge part of daily life, including in the life of the Church. But in Africa’s new and even long-time Lutheran churches, a challenge exists: the number of songs to imprint the faith in children’s hearts and minds is very limited. There are no children’s hymnals or song books to teach from. Teachers are limited to the songs that they can remember.
Your students can share the gift of the Gospel in music.
LHF has started work on a project that, with your students’ help, will provide the gift of music to countless children throughout Africa. “Nyimbo za Watoto” (Children’s Songs) is a collection of 100+ songs first written in the Swahili language, spoken by more than 200 million people in East Africa. The songs will be recorded and available to teachers online, and the books will be given at no cost to Lutheran churches, Sunday schools and day schools.
Once “Nyimbo za Watoto” has been printed in the Swahili language, that book will serve as a template for translations into other languages for Lutheran educators all across Africa.
What an incredible gift – and for only $5 per songbook!
It’s true: It costs LHF only $5 to provide a beautiful “Nyimbo za Watoto” songbook for a Lutheran teacher or student in Africa. So if your Sunday school raises $100 for “Praise Him Africa,” they are sending songbooks to another Sunday school class of 20 students in East Africa, teaching music and faith for years to come. Your Lutheran day school’s offerings of $500 share God’s Word with 100 Lutheran day school students!
With your help, Lutheran children throughout the African continent will join us in singing, in THEIR own language, “Jesus loves me, this I know.”