Iraqi song

One of my final jobs--going over the Iraqi song with Barb Musselman. Here a link to where the news note appears in The Mennonite.

Chaldean hymn--can we?

chaldean alphabet - Google Image Search

The Mennonite Central Committee Iraq contact has sent me two Christian songs in Chaldean. Now, to figure it out for Americans. An Iraqi family visits us here at Zion and I shall ask them to help me.

I thought--wouldn't it be great to sing a hymn that Iraqis are singing!

This sample image from Google is just an example of the Chaldean letters. What MCC sent to me was a sound mp3 file (to learn by listening) and the words transcribed into English letters and a translation, so we know what we are singing.

An Iraqi hymn, please

Zion has been sponsoring a family from Iraq. Last week I asked them about Iraqi songs. They had fled the country as light as possible and had no music.

Today I called a large music distributor, Pepper. They had never had a request for that before. I called my friendly Hymn Society, headquartered in Boston. They had never thought of that before, but would look into it. Dr. Daw himself, composer of several well known anthems and director of the Hymn Society, responded with several google lines to get me to at least a little information.

There are Christian churches in Iraq.

I'm going to talk to the Iraqi family again and pursue the internet sites. I'm feeling feisty, somehow, about this. Wasn't it Mennonite Central Committee which had the slogan: if the Christians of the world would just agree to not kill each other....