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NPR did a segment this morning on students from California sending pen pal-style letters to children in Haiti affected by the quake (link).

One girl, Stefica, responded to her letter by singing. And it was caught on tape.

The best part is, however-many-million NPR radio listeners were exposed to a few moments of worship from a little girl in Haiti who has nothing and, at the same time, everything.

Here’s a quote from the story over at NPR.org which includes the lyrics she sang:

Sixteen-year-old Stefica Jean Pierre even wrote in English: "I thank your school for the money sent to my country. I am very happy for the poem you wrote. I don’t know anything about poetry, but I will sing for you."

I recorded her beautiful voice soaring over the misery around her: "I’m so glad you’re here in my life," she sang. "I’m so glad you came to save us."

If you’ve sung in church any time in the last decade, you’ll likely recognize those lyrics. If you haven’t, they’re from a venerable worship tune called Lord I Lift Your Name On High. By today’s standards that songs played out. But to hear Stefica sing it, it’s as if it came off the drawing board yesterday.

Stefica, thank you. For a moment, you lead lots of people in worship.

And most probably didn’t even know it.

We dropped this one at MCC a couple weeks ago. Love it.

I’ve helped Los with his blog a few times and, all in all, he’s a stand up guy. Not just some worship leader who stays on the stage and in the comfort zone but a guy who goes to Uganda to tell the world about its plight and drops everything and moves because God told him to (find out more over at his blog).

Give his EP a listen and prep yourself to pick up his full album in April. If you’ve never visited his blog, Ragamuffin Soul, be sure and do so. You can also follow @loswhit on Twitter.

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