worship with Karen kids

This past weekend, several of our clients moved about 8 hours from Fort Worth. I was close to two of the families since I had previously taught them ESL and was currently tutoring 5 of their elementary school children. Daniel and I went to say goodbye on Saturday night and ended up staying longer than we had planned. We sat with both families on the floors of their apartments and prayed over them. It was a sweet time with them...and a sweet time between Daniel and me as well - getting to bless these families in the Lord together.


A little history about these people - they are from Burma, but are not Burmese. They are the Karen people (pronounced pretty close to the female name in English, with an accent on the second syllable rather than the first - ka-REN). These particular families are believers, and they have begun having a Karen house church in their apartment complex as well as have been going to a nearby American church. They are sweet, sweet families.

Anyhow, when we went to say goodbye to the 2nd family, I was asking if they would continue to have house church in their new place, since the family who had been leading the house church is staying in Fort Worth. I asked this question mostly with gestures rather than words. And what transpired was one of the boys getting his guitar out of its case and the children herding together to sing this beautiful worship song. The best we can figure is that they thought we were asking to have church right then and there! :-) Later we learned the meaning of the song is something along the lines of, "The earth is filled with light. The earth is filled with love. Don't keep the light for yourself. Give it to the people. Everybody needs the love of God."




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They asked us to sing a song after that, so Daniel strummed on the guitar and we sang, "I Love You, Lord" and "Your Love Is Amazing." When we got to the chorus of "halleluiah, halleluiah, halleluiah, you're love makes me sing" they joined in with us, singing "halleluiah!!"

Have you ever thought about it? The word, 'halleluiah' is univeral - everyone in every country of the world sings 'halleluiah' to our God! Won't it be beautiful one day?!! One day when we meet our Savior in the sky and we all cry out, "HALLELUIAH!"