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[Leo siku ya Bwana, tuko mbele zake]

Appears in 2 hymnals Tune Sources: Sauti ya Kihaya. (Kihaya tune.) Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 56565 53116 165 Used With Text: Leo Siku Ya Bwana

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Leo Siku Ya Bwana

Author: Wilson Kyakajumba Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Leo siku ya Bwana, tuko mbele zake Used With Tune: [Leo siku ya Bwana, tuko mbele zake]

Lord, We Come Before You Now

Author: Wilson Kyakajumba; Howard S. Olson Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Pentecost Scripture: Isaiah 55:11 Used With Tune: LEO SIKU YA MUNGU

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Leo Siku Ya Bwana

Author: Wilson Kyakajumba Hymnal: Nyimbo za Imani Yetu #39 (2003) First Line: Leo siku ya Bwana, tuko mbele zake Languages: Swahili Tune Title: [Leo siku ya Bwana, tuko mbele zake]

Lord, We Come Before You Now

Author: Wilson Kyakajumba; Howard S. Olson Hymnal: Set Free #26 (1993) Topics: Pentecost Scripture: Isaiah 55:11 Languages: English Tune Title: LEO SIKU YA MUNGU

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Austin C. Lovelace

1919 - 2010 Arranger of "LEO SIKU YA MUNGU " in Set Free LOVELACE, AUSTIN C., AAGO: (1919-2010) D.S.M., Union Theological Seminary, New York. Recitals, workshops, festivals, lectures in 17 different denominations in 45 states as well as in Finland, Scotland, Canada, and New Zealand. Past President, Fellow, and Life member, HSUSC. 50 year member, Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Author of five books; co-editor and consultant of denominational and other hymnals. Longtime member, ASCAP. Composer of over 800 compositions published by 20 publishers. Organist for the 2nd Assembly of the World Council of Churches, 1954. Dean of the first North Carolina Chapter, AGO. Chairman of the 1968 National Convention, AGO, in Denver. Two terms on the National Council, AGO. Co-founder, with Tom Matthews, of the North Shore Chapter, AGO. Minister of Music Emeritus. Denver Chapter, AGO. Austin C. Lovelace (from In Melody and Song, Darcey Press, 2014)

Howard S. Olson

1922 - 2010 Translator of "Lord, We Come Before You Now" in Set Free Howard Olson (b. 1922; d. 2010), longtime missionary/teacher in African, compiled a number of African songs in Set Free (Augsburg Fortress, 1993). Many were folk tunes to which Christian Swahili texts were later added. He wrote in the introduction: “In their original form these tunes wee sung with uninhibited improvisation. Consequently the form in which these songs appear in this book represents only one of several possibilities.” Sing! A New Creation

Wilson Kyakajumba

Author of "Leo Siku Ya Bwana" in Nyimbo za Imani Yetu
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