Date: May 12 1999 08:16:35 EDT From: Songs of Praise Subject: Songs of Praise Dear friends, It has been almost 3 weeks since I last wrote you. Instead of just one new song, today we have 2 new songs. God is really blessing our efforts. (1) "Desperately" by Joy Chastagner and Elton Smith. Joy keeps sending me poems and I am trying to keep up with her. This is the 2nd song I have done with Joy. The lyrics are very introspective and are addressed exclusively to God as a contrite prayer. It is a waltz. (2) "Share The Love" by Elton Smith, Larry Holder and Rhésa. Always trying to do something totally different, we have written a song in a Chinese music style. Rhésa and I wrote the music and created the midi. Larry and I wrote the lyrics around the theme of sharing the love of Jesus with the world. Hopefully one of our Chinese friends will want to translate this. (3) We don't have music scores for these 2 new songs yet, but Larry Holder has completed the score for "In The Pages Of The Bible" and it is now available for you to download and print. This score features 4 part vocal harmony. Several people asked about this in the last few weeks. (4) André Esterhuyse of South Africa has sent me 2 song translations in his native language, Afrikaans. These are for "He Brings the Sunshine" and "All Of My Heart". You can see them on our Translations page. This is the 9th language to be added to our page. PTL! For those of you who are new, we have a songbook and CD's available for ordering at very low cost (basically what it costs me to produce and mail them). Please see the ordering information page on my site for details if you are interested in these. Until next time, may God richly bless you as you sing His praises! Yours in Christ, Elton Smith http://songsofpraise.org