Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love

Representative Text

To view this media, please accept the license agreement:

Hope Publishing: one copy

In order to use resources from the Hope Publishing Company, you must reside in the United States or Canada. Hope Publishing Company owns or administers the contents in these territories.
You may download one copy of this selection for your own personal use. To make any further copies or to perform the work you must get permission from Hope Publishing Company or belong to and report the copying activity to CCLI, LicenSing or OneLicense.net. By selecting "I Agree" you are verifying that you reside in the U.S. or Canada and will only legally use this selection.



Source: Breaking Bread (Vol. 39) #142

Author: Tom Colvin

Tom Colvin (b. 1925; d. 2000) was trained as an engineer and worked in that profession in Burma and Singa­pore from 1945 to 1948. After studying theology at Trinity College, Glasgow University, he was ordained in the Church of Scotland in 1954. He served as missionary in Nyasa­land (now Malawi) from 1954 to 1958, in Ghana from 1958 to 1964, and again in Nyasa­land from 1964 to 1974. His work there included preaching, education, and community development. After completing his missionary work, Colvin became a minister in the United Reformed Church of England and served an inner-city church in London. He returned to Africa in 1984 as a development consultant to the Zimbabwe Christian Council. Colvin's writings include Christ's Work in Free… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Kneels at the feet of his friends
Title: Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love
Author: Tom Colvin (1963)
Meter: 7.7.9 with refrain
Source: Ghana folk song
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love
Notes: French translation: "Yésu, Yésu, ô emplis nos coeurs" by Winifred Turner Sarre and Jean Christophe Bouissou; Spanish translation: See "Cristo se baja a la var" by Vernon L. Peterson and Clair E. Weldon
Copyright: © 1969, Hope Publishing Co.
Article: Hymn Performance: "I-to Loh Isn't There" by Eileen M. Johnson (from The Hymn)

Notes

Scripture References:
st. 1 = John 13:2-5

Tom Colvin (PHH 352), long-term missionary to Africa, wrote this text in 1963 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. Colvin explained his writing of the text as follows:

Sitting there in the moonlight, I felt it simply had to be about black and white, rich and poor. I was ashamed of the wasteful affluence of my people but proud of the Gospel that transforms us into servants of one another. It is only when we who are rich learn to have the humility of the slave towards the poor of the world that we shall be able to learn from them; they have so much to teach us and share with us.

Colvin shared text and tune with the Iona Community in Scotland. After the hymn was published in their collection Free to Serve: Hymns from Africa (1968), its popularity spread to other Christian communities. It was also published in many other hymn books.

This fine text is based on Jesus' personalized object lesson on servanthood when he washed his disciples' feet (John 13:1-17) and on Jesus’ parable of the good Samaritan. That parable was his response to the question “Who is my Neighbor?” (Luke 10:25-37).

Liturgical Use:
Many occasions of worship in which Christian servanthood is the theme, thus missions services and services that focus on diaconal work.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook

Tune

CHEREPONI

CHEREPONI was originally a traditional Ghanaian love song. Colvin named the tune after the village in which he first heard it and in which he wrote his text. The traditional African performance for melodies like CHEREPONI involves a leader and a group as well as various percussion instruments and cl…

Go to tune page >


Timeline

Media

You have access to this FlexScore.
Download:
Are parts of this score outside of your desired range? Try transposing this FlexScore.
General Settings
Stanza Selection
Voice Selection
Text size:
Music size:
Transpose (Half Steps):
Capo:
Contacting server...
Contacting server...
Questions? Check out the FAQ

A separate copy of this score must be purchased for each choir member. If this score will be projected or included in a bulletin, usage must be reported to a licensing agent (e.g. CCLI, OneLicense, etc).

This is a preview of your FlexScore.
The Cyber Hymnal #3266
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)
Worship and Rejoice #273
  • Full Score (XML)
  • Bulletin Score (melody only) (XML)
  • Bulletin Score (XML)

Instances

Instances (1 - 59 of 59)

Anglican Hymns Old and New (Rev. and Enl.) #368

TextFlexScoreAudio

Baptist Hymnal 1991 #501

Text

Breaking Bread (Vol. 39) #142

Page Scan

Celebrating Grace Hymnal #656

TextPage Scan

Chalice Hymnal #600

Church Hymnal, Fifth Edition #495

Text

Come, Let Us Walk This Road Together #43

Page Scan

Common Praise (1998) #504

TextPage Scan

Community of Christ Sings #367

TextPage Scan

Evangelical Lutheran Worship #708

TextPage Scan

Fill Us With Your Love #15

Page Scan

Gather (3rd ed.) #505

Page Scan

Gather Comprehensive #409

Page Scan

Gather Comprehensive, Second Edition #429

TextPage Scan

Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.) #287

Text InfoTextFlexScoreAudioPage Scan

Glory to God #203

TextPage Scan

Hymnal Supplement 1991 #803

Hymnal Supplement II #50

Hymns and Psalms #145

TextPage Scan

Hymns for a Pilgrim People #446

Hymns of the Saints #407

Text

In Every Corner Sing #97

Text

Journeysongs (2nd ed.) #402

TextPage Scan

Journeysongs (3rd ed.) #371

TextPage Scan

Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) #294

TextPage Scan

Lift Every Voice and Sing II #74

TextFlexScoreAudioPage Scan

Lift Up Your Hearts #299

TextPage Scan

Moravian Book of Worship #577

TextPage Scan

One in Faith #700

Page Scan

Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song #425

Praise y Adoración #363a

Text InfoTune InfoTextAudioPage Scan

Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #601

TextPage Scan

Renew! Songs and Hymns for Blended Worship #289

TextPage Scan

RitualSong (2nd ed.) #595

TextPage Scan

RitualSong #564

Page Scan

Santo, Santo, Santo #155

TextPage Scan

Sing With Me #249

Text

Singing Our Faith #199

Singing the Faith #249

TextPage Scan

Songs for Life #251

Songs of Faith and Praise #847

TextPage Scan

The Book of Praise #229

Page Scan

The Covenant Hymnal #629

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #3266

Text

The Hymnal 1982 #602

TextPage Scan

The New Century Hymnal #498

TextPage Scan

The Presbyterian Hymnal #367

TextFlexScoreAudioPage Scan

The United Methodist Hymnal #432

The United Methodist Hymnal Music Supplement #63

TextFlexScoreAudioPage Scan

The Worshiping Church #436

TextPage Scan

This Far By Faith #83

Text

Together in Song #640

TextPage Scan

Voices United #593

TextAudioPage Scan

With Heart and Voice #143

TextPage Scan

With One Voice #765

Page Scan

Worship (3rd ed.) #431

TextPage Scan

Worship (4th ed.) #487

TextScoreAudioPage Scan

Worship and Rejoice #273

Page Scan

찬송과 예배 = Chansong gwa yebae = Come, Let Us Worship #179

Include 5 pre-1979 instances
Suggestions or corrections? Contact us