This morning saw us joining Jessie, the diocesan intercultural worship co-ordinator, to help lead the music in a service at St Theo’s in Rushey Mead, Leicester. I took my bass and Jane brought both flute and clarinet. It just so happened that when there wasn’t music in the required key, we did find dots for the key a tone above which made it perfect for a Bb instrument like the clarinet.

Some of the songs were in English but most used one or more other languages, so I’ve sung today in everything from Arabic to Urdu. Typically there were only one or two phrases to learn in each language and there was nothing particularly tongue twisting and a wonderful way of remembering that God’s love reaches round the whole world.