Attended the Wesley 11.30am service today and heard this hymn - Jesu Jesu Fill Us with Your Love - for the first time. It was so beautiful and so different from the typical Methodist hymn that I immediately looked it up online.
The hymn was written by Thomas Stevenson Colvin (Tom), a Church of Scotland missionary in Malawi and Ghana, in 1963. He had written the words in Chereponi, northern Ghana, while he was attending a lay-training course in agriculture, development, and evangelism.
New converts had brought a folk melody to this meeting, which they
thought might be appropriate for a text about Christian love. So the
tune is a traditional Ghanaian folk love song - Chereponi.
Hunted for YouTube videos of this hymn. This clip is one of the best renditions of the hymn. I think I'll be humming it for the next few days.
Source: www.hymnary.org
Hunted for YouTube videos of this hymn. This clip is one of the best renditions of the hymn. I think I'll be humming it for the next few days.
Source: www.hymnary.org
