What is your favourite song in the assembly hymn book?

I really hope you have all taken copies of Gloria Deo, the CEC assembly hymnbook home with you. It's got great hymns, songs and chants from around the world and has things you can share with your church, youth group or prayer group. Hope you go on enjoying it long after the assembly.

I've just written on my own blog about two of the hymns. No 40 Tenemos esperanza and No 43 Toi qui gardes le silence. There's a short sermon about Tenemos esperanza on the CEC website by me too. If you ever get a chance to sing it with Latin Americans it is an amazing experience, a real anthem of hope and resistance.

So now a more open question, what is you favourite hymn or song in your own language? Fancy doing a recording of it for us here?

ASBO Jesus offers a basic message of hope

I really enjoy Jon Birch's ASBO Jesus and this one seems to say something about hope the central theme of the assembly here in Lyon.
Maybe you have a favourite cartoonist from your country or culture?
(Just to explain ASBO means Anti-Social Behaviour Order in Britain)

Hope as an anchor

Today, at the bibly study session on Hope:

Giulia from Italy: "In Italian hope means speranza." The answer of Nikola from Albania: "In Albanian hope is sprese. But we also have speranza, which means anchor."

I think, this was really interesting. Languages and their words really can be full of meanings, symbols and ideas. Here, the anchor is a great symbol of hope. Even if there is a situation without any way out of it - hope is the anchor, which you have in the storms of life.