{"id":126651,"date":"2026-04-06T04:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/?p=126651"},"modified":"2026-04-06T04:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:36:35","slug":"practicing-hospitality-through-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/stories\/practicing-hospitality-through-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Practicing hospitality through\u00a0worship\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-purple-eyebrow\">Perspectives \u2014 North America<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Singing from the MWC songbook in Pennsylvania<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"><em>\u201cAll the nations you have made shall come\u00a0<br>and bow down before you, O Lord,\u00a0<br>and shall glorify your name.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"><em>Psalm 86:9\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we sing songs from Mennonite&nbsp;World&nbsp;Conference\u2019s international songbook, we&nbsp;are practicing&nbsp;hospitality and&nbsp;belonging. Singing other cultures\u2019 songs also connects us with the global church.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Songs such as \u201cHere I Am&nbsp;to&nbsp;Worship,\u201d \u201cWay Maker\u201d&nbsp;and&nbsp;\u201cHow Great Thou Art\u201d fit neatly into&nbsp;the&nbsp;musical canon&nbsp;at&nbsp;Neffsville&nbsp;Mennonite Church. Others \u2013 like \u201cCantai&nbsp;ao&nbsp;Senhor,\u201d \u201cKwake&nbsp;Yesu&nbsp;Nasimama,\u201d and \u201cTu Eres&nbsp;Todopoderso\u201d \u2013 are more of a stretch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our congregation is majority white, with many having a Swiss or German Mennonite lineage. However, we also have members from Puerto Rico, Haiti,&nbsp;Kenya&nbsp;and Uganda. Singing songs in their native languages is one way to express to them that they truly belong.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, quite a few of our members have served as missionaries overseas in Africa,&nbsp;Asia&nbsp;and South America.&nbsp;Singing songs from the MWC&nbsp;songbook encourages them as well.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me give two examples of how&nbsp;our singing&nbsp;has&nbsp;expressed&nbsp;welcome and solidarity in a tangible way.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Favourite&nbsp;song in a heart language&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>About three years ago, a missionary from Peru that we support&nbsp;visited&nbsp;Neffsville&nbsp;and preached on Sunday. That morning, we sang&nbsp;\u201cTu&nbsp;Estas&nbsp;Aqui.\u201d&nbsp;Tears began to roll down his&nbsp;cheeks&nbsp;as we were singing. He never thought he would hear a song in his native tongue at a Mennonite church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I learned later that&nbsp;\u201cTu&nbsp;Estas&nbsp;Aqui\u201d&nbsp;is one of his favorite songs. He and his family felt welcomed in a more profound way, simply because we sang a song in worship in his mother&nbsp;tongue.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">God\u2019s ways welcome a guest&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The second example is&nbsp;recent. We sang&nbsp;\u201cCantai&nbsp;ao&nbsp;Senhor\u201d&nbsp;in our service, in both Portuguese and English.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the Sunday, there happened to be a family visiting our church for the first time who is originally from Brazil and speaks Portuguese in their home!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some&nbsp;members of&nbsp;our congregation wondered&nbsp;why we sing in Portuguese. They knew of&nbsp;no one in our congregation from a country that speaks the language.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this is how God works!&nbsp;This family was&nbsp;enthralled that a congregation in Lancaster, Pennsylvania,&nbsp;was singing in their native language.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They felt welcomed in a way beyond what any handshake could have&nbsp;accomplished. They felt seen.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Music connects across the world&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my goals this year is for my congregation to sing at least one song from a non-majority culture in most of our worship services. Songs from the MWC&nbsp;songbook help us to do that in a way that&nbsp;powerfully connects us with our&nbsp;Anabaptist&nbsp;brothers and sisters around the world.&nbsp;When, as it says in Psalm 86:9,&nbsp;we&nbsp;\u201cglorify God\u2019s&nbsp;name,\u201d we are doing so with the songs of&nbsp;\u201call the nations.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After all, when we get to heaven, there will be people of all&nbsp;nations;&nbsp;every person in Christ who has ever lived.&nbsp;All of us&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;with all our various cultures, languages, races&nbsp;\u2013 will be&nbsp;singing \u201cSalvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb!\u201d (Revelation\u202f7:10b)&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singing songs from other cultures and&nbsp;languages (particularly those from the MWC Songbook,&nbsp;many of which are also in our hymnal,&nbsp;<em>Voices Together<\/em>)&nbsp;serves as good practice for us.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:20% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" data-src=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC05303-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126654 size-medium lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC05303-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC05303-662x1024.jpg 662w, https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC05303.jpg 749w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 194px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 194\/300;\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>Rashard Allen\u00a0is\u00a0the\u00a0director of music and worship\u00a0at\u00a0Neffsville\u00a0Mennonite Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA.\u00a0He\u00a0first became familiar with the MWC Songbook through serving as part of the International Ensemble for MWC Assembly in Indonesia in 2022.\u00a0He\u00a0has since\u00a0conducted\u00a0workshops on worship music in Mennonite congregations in Uganda, and he\u00a0organized the five international choirs at the Anabaptism@500 commemoration in Zurich in 2025<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fc4fd283 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-magenta-background-color has-background has-text-align-left wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/resources\/courier-2026-41-1\/\">This article first appeared in<br>Courier \/ Correo \/ Courrier, volume 41, number 1<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-post_tag has-link-color wp-elements-4795dccc25dd561b10d5c166c095ced0 wp-block-post-terms has-text-color has-gray-color has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/stories\/tag\/courier\/\" rel=\"tag\">Courier<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/stories\/tag\/music\/\" rel=\"tag\">music<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/stories\/tag\/north-america\/\" rel=\"tag\">North America<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perspectives \u2014 North America Singing from the MWC songbook in Pennsylvania \u201cAll the nations you have made shall come\u00a0and bow down before you, O Lord,\u00a0and shall glorify your name.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Psalm 86:9\u00a0 When we sing songs from Mennonite&nbsp;World&nbsp;Conference\u2019s international songbook, we&nbsp;are practicing&nbsp;hospitality and&nbsp;belonging. 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