Xola Mdingi, May 30, 2023
The Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA)
Western Cape Presbytery
Fellowship of Youth
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Edited by Azizi Powell
Latest Update: March 4, 2024
This pancocojams post presents information about the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA) 2022 & 2023.
This post also showcases seven YouTube videos of Youth Fellowship Of UPCSA (2022, 2023) convocations. I'm particularly interested documenting video examples of the singing, musical instruments, and some of the accompanying dance and hand motions that are performed by members of that Christian denomination's Fellowship Of Youth (FOY) convocations.
Update: I've added one video of older women of the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa worshipping to document that it's not just the youth of that Christian denomination that perform these types of worship movements.
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Thanks to all members of Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa congregations and, in particular, thanks to members of F. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to Xola Mdingi and to The Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa, the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
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INFORMATION ABOUT UPCSA
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniting_Presbyterian_Church_in_Southern_Africa
"The Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA)
was formed and constituted in 1999 as the outcome of the union between the
Reformed Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (RPCSA) and the Presbyterian
Church of Southern Africa (PCSA).
These two churches shared the same origin dating back to the 19th century when Britain took over the Cape Colony. Their distinctive characters were that the Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa was constituted among soldiers and settlers who arrived in the Cape in 1820, spreading North into Zimbabwe and Zambia. The Reformed Presbyterian Church on the other hand was a product of Scottish missions intended for the indigenous Africans, which started at Lovedale Mission in Alice. It became autonomous in 1923.
In 1896 the first Presbyterian congregation was founded in Rhodesia at Bulawayo, and later in 1903 in Salisbury (now Harare). Now there is one presbytery of Zimbabwe, used to be 2 Presbyteries in Matabeland and Mashonaland. Currently there are more than 40 congregations and 100,000-300,000 members.[2]
Recent History
The UPCSA ordains both men and women as ministers and
elders, a position inherited from the predecessor body, the Presbyterian Church
of Southern Africa.[3] The church defines marriage as exclusively heterosexual,
between one man and one woman, and "instructs" ministers to not
perform same-sex marriages.[4] However, a church court ruled in 2015 that the
church did not prohibit its ministers from blessing same-sex unions.[5]
In 2019 the UPCSA celebrated its twentieth anniversary after having spent much of that time in forging structures of union.
Presbyteries
The Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa has over
500 congregations and more than 900,000 members[1] and is divided into ...Presbyteries (regional districts)"...
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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE: DESCRIPTION OF UPCSA'S SANCE MOVEMENTS AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
While I can list the musical instruments that I see and hear in these videos*, I don't feel competent enough to fully and accurately describe the singing and dancing styles, or the hand clapping, and hand motions that are performed in these videos. Here's my attempt with additions and corrections very welcome:
The singing appears to be spontaneously led by a woman or a man who is given a hand held microphone. The congregation joins in with four part harmony that blends into the lead voice. Hand clapping may accompany this singing, but that hand clapping doesn't appear to dominate like it does with South Africa's Clap and Tap music genre. The singer is joined by other people from the congregation who stand in horizontal lines and begin swaying to the music. Some people play various hand held instruments and some people in the lines sometimes wave their hand to beat of the music.
*UPCSA's musical instruments: one or two djembes (usually played by a man, but also played by a woman in one of these embedded videos), one or more whistles, one or more tambourines, metal percussive instruments that are rhythmically struck, and ibeat (mpampampas- a hard cloth "pillow" shaped instrument that is attached to one hand and hit with the person's other hand).
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SHOWCASE VIDEO #2 - UPCSA WCP FOY Conference 2022 - Praise Medley
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SHOWCASE VIDEO #3- UPCSA FOY Convocation 2022 - uJesu onamandla
Xola Mdingi,
Fellowship of Youth Convocation 2022
The Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa
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SHOWCASE VIDEO #4 - UPCSA FOY Convocation 2022 - Esandleni somusa
Xola Mdingi, Jul 5, 2022
Fellowship of Youth Convocation 2022
The Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa
SHOWCASE VIDEO #5 - 2023 UPCSA Fellowship of Youth Convocation
The Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa, Sep 14, 2023
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SHOWCASE VIDEO #6 - 2023 UPCSA Fellowship of Youth Convocation
The Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa, Sep 14, 2023
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SHOWCASE VIDEO #7 - UPCSA Fellowship of Youth Convocation
UPCSA Fellowship of Youth, Sep 14, 2023
UThweswe Ubukhosi
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UPDATE: SHOWCASE VIDEO #8 - UPCSA WCP Opening Revival Service 2023 - Sikhangele ngobubele
Xola Mdingi, Jan 31, 2023
The Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa 2
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