Recommendations for singing and psalmody that could be used in a service connected to the theme of refugees, hospitality, sanctuary and welcome. Many of these could also be used for services of a multi-cultural or multi-national Christian congregation worshipping together.
Psalms
- Psalm 46 God is our mighty fortress, always ready to help in times of trouble
- Psalm 57 God Most High, have pity on me! Have mercy. I run to you for safety.
- Psalm 61 Please listen, God, … I cry out to you from a faraway land.
- Psalm 77 I pray to you, Lord God, and I beg you to listen.
- Psalm 84 Lord God All-Powerful, your temple is so lovely!
- Psalm 91 Live under the protection of God Most High
- Psalm 113 Shout praises to the Lord!
- Psalm 117 All of you nations, come praise the Lord!
- Psalm 121 I look to the hills! Where will I find help?
- Psalm 139 You have looked deep into my heart, Lord, and you know all about me.
Hymns
- Amen Siakudumisa – South African Traditional
- Be Thou my vision – Irish, 8th century, translated Mary Elizabeth Byrne, revised Eleanor Henrietta Hull
- Beauty for brokenness – Graham Kendrick
- Brother, Sister let me serve you – Richard A. M. Gillard
- For the healing of the nations – Fred Kaan
(alternative tunes: Westminster Abbey, Cwm Rhondda) - God weeps – Shirley Erena Murray
- Heaven shall not wait – John L. Bell and Graham Maule
- Here to the house of God we come – Shirley Erena Murray
(alt. tunes: Abingdon, Melita) - I the Lord of Sea and Sky – Daniel L. Schutte
- In Christ there is no East nor West – John Oxenham, pseud. William Arthur Dunkerley
- Inspired by love and anger – John L. Bell and Graham Maule
- Jesus Christ is waiting – John L. Bell and Graham Maule
- Let us build a house where love can dwell – Marty Haugen
- Longing for light, we wait in darkness – Bernadette Farrell
- Lord of all hopefulness – Jan Struther
- Pray for a world where every child – Ruth C. Duck
- Sent by the Lord am I – Jorge Maldonado
- The Church is like a table – Fred Kaan
- The love of God is broad like beach and meadow – Fred Kaan
- There are no strangers to God’s love – Andrew Pratt
- Travelling the road to freedom – John L. Bell and Graham Maule
- We’ve no abiding city here – Thomas Kelly
- When Christ was lifted from the earth – Brian Wren
- When I needed a neighbour were you there – Sydney Bertram Carter
- When I receive the peace of Christ – Michael Mair
- When out of poverty is born (Christmas Carol) – Kathy Galloway
- When the hungry who have nothing share with strangers – Jose Antonio Olivar and Miguel Manzano translated Mary Louise Bringle
Songs
- God of Justice – Tim Hughes
- Red Sea Road (Exodus 14:13-14). – Ellie Holcomb
- Give us Your Heart – The Worship Collective
- Our God was a Refugee – ResoundWorship
- You are a Refuge -ResoundWorship
- King of the Broken -CompassionArt
- Move – Jesus Culture
- How Long – Al Gordon
“Diversity in worshipping together magnifies the glory of God”
songs2serve offers a database of intercultural worship songs in different languages with translated lyrics: www.songs2serve.nl
Taizé chants
- Aber du weisst den Weg für mich
- Da pacem cordium
- Da pacem … in diebus (Grant us peace, o Lord)
- Dans nos obscurités
- De noche
- Dona la pace, Signore
- Eat this bread / Jesus Christ, Bread of Life
- El alma que anda en amor
- El Senyor (In the Lord / Meine Hoffnung / Pan jest mocą)
- Fiez-vous en Lui
- I am sure I shall see
- Il Signore ti ristora
- L’ajuda em vindrà
- Laudate omnes gentes
- Let all who are thirsty come
- Mon âme se repose
- Nothing can ever
- See, I am near
- Ubi caritas
- Wait for the Lord
