praise team

I am now part of the praise team-which in all truth is almost the whole church on any given Sunday! It is the students, Lucy, Christine, Mildred and I and Faith when she is here. Last Friday was my first time at practice. I gave Lucy a file with some praise chorus from the states. Most of these are older songs, songs I sang when I was in at bible camp in high school! Since I gave the book, I get to teach the songs of course as most of them don’t know it. Basically I have to tell them the words, and then sing them the tune. They caught on to the songs pretty quick. Even after one or two times, we have about an 8 part choir. It is just SOOO cool to here and be a part of. They also like to “move a little” so if there are actions, we do those too. Otherwise we do a lot of the step-shuffle. We also have a “kickline” with 3 shuffles and a kick! Thank God I was blessed with rhythm. Many of the songs are in Bembe or Nyanji so it takes a bit for me to sing them. Most of the songs just repeat over and over again so I can start to get. If I don’t know all the words I can sustain notes until we get to the end of the phrase and hit that.
My problem is my own inhibition I guess. I can do a little groove, but I feel so self-conscious I have a hard time letting myself do it. That is one thing I love about the Zambian people-they just say it, do it, its so matter of fact.