July 15, 1972 - 16B Hymnbook

Recording #16B

Place of Recording: Pokwo

Date of Recording: July 15, 1972

Performance: Hymnbook recorded by Pokwo church congregation

Informant: Paul Abulla and Henry Akway

Date of Transcript: September 26, 1972

1 000 Obero

Information: Refer to15A 2 031 83.

2 007 Obero.

Information: Leader and congregation.

Text: Our father, Jesus the owner of everything. He has gone up to heaven. I’m still asking you. Our heavenly father that has united the whole world. Jesus you’re my Lord, all people are talking of your name. Jesus the son of God was crucified on the cross because of our sins. Jesus the son of God you are my mother and father, I’m still asking you. Repeats

3 029 Agwaga.

Information: Leader and congregation. Agwaga will be slow at first through the words slowly and then rapidly.

Text: O God, send us your salvation and make us believe. Through our father we are still asking in your name and your son’s name. Our father Jesus has been killed. He rose up and went back to his father. But he shall come again. Whatever has been said by Jesus has been written in the Bible. That if you convert you will be born again. When Jesus returns the earth will shake. The trumpets will be sounding. The sky will change to a different type of sky. The angels will come back. (slow part) and repeat the preceding in the fast part. Repeats again

4 046 Agwaga.

Text: Savior the son of God, when shall he come? He would come one day. He is still near his father. He died on the cross. It was because of our sins, he gave us good living. When we go from village to village, we are talking of him. It is his deeds that are written in the Bible that we talk of every day. Let us go to the way of God. It is great, the way is great. He lost his blood because of our sins. Please let us all believe in him. Believe in the great God that owns everything. That you leave the idols of before, you will never get anything from them. He came like a poor person to this earth. The guide has come who is the way. Appreciation by all the people all over the world because he’s helping people. We will remove all the idols and they shall never appear. The Bible has said that try to convert yourself before his coming, when he will come, before a conversion they will be no help. Please believe the good message that has been brought. Why don’t you believe in it. Jesus has been sent to this world as if his only giving life to Heaven. That our father helps us, heaven is still great waiting for us. The bad has died, or has been destroyed when Jesus died, the good has been left after his death. My father, Jesus, I’m ready (we are ready) to pray to Jesus. Jesus is something great left or the whole family.

5 062 Agwaga.

Information: Owner sang this song. After 3 months he died 1962 approximately. He was converted that year. After baptism he sang this song and died after 3 months.

Text: All the people when shall our Lord come to get us or to show us the way of life. Jesus is here, the son of God. Our guardian he will come and open the eyes of the blind, he has been left as the leader of everyone. Our father the descended one from God. Our sins have been forgiven by God. But God help us, we are in a container (a pot) of death and pains and injuries. But when he will come, we will be praying happy and trusting in him. The owner of everything is us. Our father. Jesus help us. All of us are being asked, let us go up after our father to heaven. Our father sees our difficulties, or know our difficulties. Your name has come and it was heard by all tribes. When I think of my sins, I mourn because they are so much. But when he would come, God of everyone, my father Jesus help me. Please, you who are worshiping the idols, convert yourselves, don’t believe in these Idol gods, they are deceiving you. When you die, your souls will be burnt, or thrown into fire. Jesus is great, I believe I could worship him. But please come for me. At the time he will come, everybody will trust him. We would pray to him with happiness, the owner of everything and the representative of every sin. Every creature. Would come and raise me from death and take me to my heavenly father. Repeats.

6 097 Agwaga.

Information: Leader and congregation.

Text: God, the strongest person. He’s going to unite people, all the people to his way. Don’t get angry. He is the helper, our father who reaches everybody. All people praise him. The helper of people. The whole world is living because of you. Every morning, he sends people to us to read the Bible. It is the book of life. As has been prophesied by Jesus, you go to the whole world and teaching the Bible. No nation or no village remains. Our father’s great. He gives us rain through belief. Our father in Heaven you are great you washed us with your blood. Help us. Help me O God for my sins. Repeats.

7 114 Agwaga.

Information: Leader and congregation.

Text: All of you don’t hesitate, let us pray to Jesus. He who leaves Satan or idols his soul will go to heaven. But please try to convert yourself before his coming. O God, we are still asking you, we are left with sins. Help us. Repeats.

8 124 Agwaga.

Information: Refer to 15A 6 190 87 Leader and congregation.

9 138 Agwaga.

Information: Mary Akela. Leader and Congregation. 15A 9 307 90.

10 156 Agwaga.

Information: Refer to 15B 3 072 95 Leader and congregation.

11 163 Agwaga.

Information: Refer to 15A 11 398 92. Leader and congregation.

12 188 Agwaga.

Information: 16A 3 076 105 Leader and congregation. Quality of sound is not good.

13 207 Agwaga.

Information: Leader and congregation. Quality of sound not good.

Text: Mary Akela. O father the great helper, you are our father. He arose from the dead, but you are our helper. He will come one day. He who asks God Jesus will return with the sound of trumpets and drums and will open the sky. The angels will come to us. Repeats.

14 232 Death wailing.

Information: The third child has died. Abuna.

Text: Praising you with mourning.

15 288 individual singing.

Information: Male voice.

Text: All people, those who think that they could worship Satan understanding that he who worships a thief is destroying himself. You pray to Jesus who gave himself to be killed for you. All of his deeds have been written down in the Bible.

Jesus was born in Bethlehem. He is our helper. We are to leave sinning. And please do not believe in these idols. You will be burned. All people are praying to Jesus, please convert yourselves. As it has been said by Jesus, I’m now going up but I will come down. Our fathers in Heaven, all the souls are in his hand. The helper arose from the dead but it has been said in the Bible. That I will never leave you you are my orphans. He who believes in idols will at one time think and leave these things. Repeats. Individual singing with soft singing in the background.

16 332 Obero.

Information: Mary Akela. Sung by individual woman. Obero. Popular one with several versions heard. Refer to 15B 7 329 99.