AMERICAN SAMOA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

"Iesu le Fa'aola" was composed for the ASG Tsunami Service September 29, 2010. You can download the music from here (See left column)  or from this link: Hosanna Studio

Daniel Pouesi's summary of the words:  Iesu le Faaola 

It's a question as old as humanity. Why is there suffering and pain? If God is all-powerful and all-loving, why does He allow natural disasters and tragedies? The simple answer is: we live in a broken world; a world marred by sin. And there are consequences of sin. One of them is, God's own Son, perfect and holy in every way, suffered humiliation and died like a common criminal on a Roman cross as propitiation for our sin.

We adapted words from Psalm 31 for this commemorative song because it is both a psalm of lament and of trust. Psalm 31 alludes to Jesus' own suffering. Before He died, He called out to His Father with the same words in verses 4 and 5: 'Into Your hands I commit my spirit'

The psalm does not follow the crucifixion chronologically. Instead it shifts back and forth from suffering to resurrection. The first few verses open with a prayer. In His hour of deepest anguish, Jesus prayed and put his trust solely in His Father and asked that the Father be His rock of refuge.

The psalm follows what should be our response to distress. There's calamity, a prayer for deliverance, trust in the Lord, and gratitude in the midst of suffering. And finally, there's hope.

Samoa News/ASCC Fine Arts - Tsunami Song

To my dear brother and friend Sipiki - ASCC Welding Instructor- Certified (ITT)
He was a professional entertainer(a fire knife dancer, guitarist, vocalist - Disneyland and many other places in California), a composer of Samoan love songs and gospel music.

FLAG DAY PERFORMANCE - 2009

TO MY CHAMBER SINGERS website