Monday, January 7, 2008

Bible Thumping

We experienced the Tanzanian rendition of Bible Thumping at church on
Sunday. What else would you do if you got to church and did not have a
drum? The boy in front of us just banged on his Bible with his hand to
keep the beat as everyone else clapped. He did a good job making a
joyful noise to the Lord, and it sounded pretty good to me too. Even
Tessa thought so because she grabbed her own Bible and tried smacking
it a couple of times. Our church is very small and rarely has musical accompaniment, which is generally a good thing here since those churches with keyboards turn up the volume very loud! We like the normal acapello style of our church here. It seems that folks here are born with the ability to harmonize so the singing is always great.

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