Story Behind Our Amazing Guinness World Record Attempt

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On Friday, July 23, Every Nation Ministries made an official attempt to set the Guinness World Record for “The Most Languages Performed in a Song (Multiple Singers)” by performing “Amazing Grace” in 50 different languages.

Background on the attempt:

The Guinness World Record attempt was performed during EN2010, the world conference of Every Nation Ministries. Every Nation has churches and ministries in 61 nations and has a vision to plant a church in “every nation” of the world. Thus, singing “Amazing Grace” in 50 different languages was chosen for the Guinness World Record. In the Philippines, Every Nation is represented by Victory Church which has 14 congregations in Metro Manila and 42 provincial churches outside Metro Manila.

This world conference is only held once every three years – the previous conference, EN07, was held in Araneta Coliseum with more than 14,000 participants from 41 different nations. This time, EN2010 was held at the SMX Convention Center and featured 19,173 participants from 45 different nations.

The Story of Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace was written by John Newton, a former slave ship captain who came to Christ. Many people believe the melody of Amazing Grace is actually an old African folk song that Newton would have heard as the singing of the slaves wafted up from the hold of his slave ship. One of the most beloved Christian songs, Amazing Grace has been translated into almost every language in every nation. It is also referred to as the “National Anthem” of the Cherokee Indians, who sang Amazing Grace to encourage one another on the “Trail of Tears” as they were led on a forced relocation of almost 2,000 km on which 4,000 men, women and children perished.

On Friday night, July 23, participants of EN2010 celebrated “every nation” by singing “Amazing Grace” in 50 languages, including: Arabic, Mandarin, Zulu, Persian, Hindi, Spanish, Tagalog, Japanese, Cebuano and Cherokee Indian.

Full list of languages performed by Every Nation at EN2010:

1. English
2. Yoruba
3. Japanese
4. Zulu
5. Spanish
6. Mandarin
7. Hindi
8. Korean
9. Persian
10. Samoan
11. Afrikaans
12. Arabic
13. Thai
14. Ibo
15. Cherokee
16. Tagalog
17. Greek
18. Italian
19. French
20. Russian
21. Burmese
22. Swedish
23. Norwegian
24. Irish
25. Hawaiian
26. Dutch
27. German
28. Cantonese
29. Bengali
30. Setswana
31. Portuguese
32. Turkish
33. Maori
34. Tongan
35. Malaysian
36. Vietnamese
37. Lao
38. Cebuano
39. Nepali
40. Mongolian
41. Indonesian
42. Hokkien
43. Xhosa
44. Konkani
45. Marathi
46. Gujarati
47. Lotha-Naga
48. Tankhul
49. Manipuri
50. Sign language

 

World Record Attempt Makes News

On Sunday, July 25, two of the leading daily newspapers in the Philippines – The Philippine Daily Inquirer and The Philippine Star – featured our official attempt to make a Guinness World Record at EN2010. Two days before that, on Friday, July 23, more than 19,000 EN2010 delegates took part in singing the classic and one of the most beloved Christian songs Amazing Grace in 50 languages as we celebrate our coming together as one family from every nation, language, tongue and tribe. In doing this,  we also believe to set the Guinness World Record for “The Most Languages Performed in a Song by Multiple Singers.”

Check out the following articles:

‘Amazing Grace’ sung in 60 languages (Inquirer.net)

Born again delegates sing Amazing Grace in 50 languages (Philstar)

 

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