2.3K views · 25 reactions | Learn and sing along with some Kiribati nursery rhymes, thanks to Cosgrove School #KiribatiLanguageWeek | Ministry for Pacific Peoples | Facebook

🇹🇴 Tongan Language Week! Sing along in Tongan if you want, or here is the English translation for the soul: 🤍 “I need Your strength, ’cause sometimes I can’t bear the weight, all on my own. I need something more than only me. I need Your love, Your divinity, to chase the shadows away.” 🎵Listen to this beautiful track 🇹🇴from the 2025 youth album Look Unto Christ. 📱➡️ ffm.bio/churchofjesuschristpacific The album is also available in Tongan, Samoan, Fijian, Maori, Tahitian, Bislama, Kiribati

KIRIBATI MWAIE (DANCING) ... is an art form - it is unique, haunting and beautiful. It contains elements of chorus, dance, ballet and lyric drama which are done to a rhythm beaten out on a box or a tin plate, or in this case to a recorded song. The mwaie reflects the way that the Kiribati people look at life. Traditionally, the singers which stand or sit behind the dancer, sing and clap with all their might to make the dancing more exciting. The dancers and their concentration on movement - a ti