2012-12-18 18:51:09

Music, a common language for Christian Unity


December 18, 2012: “Our office today is based in Charlotte, North Carolina...years ago, blacks and whites worshipped in segregated conditions in New York where there was discrimination against black clergy and even at the baptismal font..
I believe a common denominator is music and I think it’s one of the great ways to establish unity among the Churches….and one of the things I hope to do this spring is to bring some praise dancers to present our dance culture here”, said Pastor Roe Nall from Georgia in the United States, who was here in the Vatican last week meeting with officials at the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

While speaking to Vatican Radio, the Methodist minister said that ‘It is my desire to be as ecumenical as John Wesley was…….Wesley saw the world as his parish and he wanted to make things better for everyone in the world, to do all the good he could by all the means he could in all the places he could for as long as he could….
Back in 2007, Pastor Nall brought a choir to Rome to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of Charles Wesley, one of the founding brothers of the Methodist movement in England. Following on from the success of that visit, Nall is planning to bring a group of praise dancers and singers to Rome next spring to share this worship tradition from his African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. That Church today numbers close to one and a half million members, mainly in North and South America, Africa and the Caribbean.







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