Missionaries from the Malaga Media Center understood this and began equipping Moroccans to write worship music. Their efforts are meeting with success. In December 1996 the first Christian Music Seminar took place with Moroccan musicians studying lyric writing, composition, vocal and instrumental skills and the biblical basis for worship. The fourteen men and women present wrote and recorded sixteen songs. Music seminars continued annually since then, resulting in more than 80 new worship songs.
Believers still meet mostly in secret and in homes.
But neighbors can't help hearing the worship. Now, using local words and music the neighbors just realize we are having a good time. At least one music group has formed with plans to record and visit cities throughout Morocco to introduce the new music to other believers. Developing the musical potential of Moroccan believers and building a uniquely Moroccan body of worship music will be an ongoing project. Plans are in the making to produce a book of 500 songs for use throughout North Africa.