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0:00:08 > 0:00:12- To round off the year, some - of the highlights of this series.
0:00:13 > 0:00:15- Welcome - to Dechrau Canu Dechrau Canmol.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19- # Soli Deo gloria
0:00:20 > 0:00:25- # Soli Deo gloria
0:00:27 > 0:00:33- # Soli Deo gloria #
0:00:47 > 0:00:51- On this programme, - another opportunity to enjoy...
0:00:52 > 0:00:56- ..performances - by Al Lewis and John Nicholas.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00- There'll also be another chance...
0:01:00 > 0:01:04- ..to hear the interview - with Reverend Rhun ap Robert.
0:01:05 > 0:01:06- God was asking me to do His work.
0:01:07 > 0:01:12- From that moment on, I said, - "Fine, here I am, send me."
0:01:27 > 0:01:31- The hymns will come - from many locations across Wales.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34- We'll begin - with the hymn tune Sanctus...
0:01:34 > 0:01:38- ..with the well-known words - "glan geriwbiaid a seraffiaid"...
0:01:38 > 0:01:40- ..from St Davids Cathedral.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58- There've been - many memorable performances.
0:03:58 > 0:04:02- Next, a chance to enjoy the - Christian singer, John Nicholas...
0:04:02 > 0:04:04- ..performing Pethau Gwell.
0:04:25 > 0:04:34- # All I have and all I know collide
0:04:37 > 0:04:41- # Show me what it feels like
0:04:41 > 0:04:45- # What it feels like to be alive
0:04:49 > 0:04:54- # Awake all my soul
0:04:57 > 0:05:02- # From all the riches that you stole
0:05:05 > 0:05:08- # Let your anchor hold
0:05:09 > 0:05:11- # Let the rain fall
0:05:13 > 0:05:18- # I've set my eyes on better things
0:05:21 > 0:05:24- # Let the oceans fall
0:05:25 > 0:05:29- # On the ashes of all
0:05:29 > 0:05:34- # I've set my eyes on better things
0:05:37 > 0:05:42- # You see me as the man
0:05:43 > 0:05:46- # That I want to be
0:05:49 > 0:05:58- # Rivers flow through deserts - down into the sea
0:06:00 > 0:06:02- # I'm falling down
0:06:03 > 0:06:07- # Down, down, down, down
0:06:08 > 0:06:15- # Yes, I'm lifted off the ground
0:06:16 > 0:06:20- # Let your anchor hold
0:06:21 > 0:06:24- # Let the rain fall
0:06:25 > 0:06:30- # I've set my eyes on better things
0:06:33 > 0:06:36- # Let the oceans fall
0:06:37 > 0:06:40- # On the ashes of all
0:06:40 > 0:06:46- # I've set my eyes on better things
0:06:49 > 0:06:57- # Take me as I am, - oh, take me as I am
0:06:57 > 0:07:02- # Oh, take me as I am, my love
0:07:05 > 0:07:13- # Take me as I am, - oh, take me as I am
0:07:13 > 0:07:18- # Oh, take me as I am, my love
0:07:21 > 0:07:24- # Let your anchor hold
0:07:24 > 0:07:27- # Let the rain fall
0:07:29 > 0:07:34- # I've set my eyes on better things
0:07:37 > 0:07:40- # Let the oceans fall
0:07:41 > 0:07:44- # On the ashes of all
0:07:46 > 0:07:51- # I've set my eyes - on better things #
0:08:04 > 0:08:06- Rhun ap Robert - is one of many priests...
0:08:07 > 0:08:10- ..ordained - by the Llandaff bishopric recently.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13- Nia Roberts - went to Port Talbot to meet him.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17- Rhun ap Robert - is one of many priests...
0:08:17 > 0:08:21- ..ordained - by the Llandaff bishopric recently.
0:08:21 > 0:08:27- Raised in Pwllheli, he's now one - of a team of priests in Port Talbot.
0:08:27 > 0:08:30- Rhun, you spent years as a teacher.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33- This is quite a change of direction.
0:08:34 > 0:08:35- Take us back to the start.
0:08:36 > 0:08:41- I first thought - that I felt some kind of calling...
0:08:41 > 0:08:43- ..when I was 19 years old.
0:08:43 > 0:08:49- I enjoyed going to church - all the while I was growing up.
0:08:50 > 0:08:54- I thought I might like to do it, - but it always seemed beyond me.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56- It was for someone else, not me.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58- I wouldn't be good enough.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02- Life went on, in a way.
0:09:03 > 0:09:07- Various things happened in my life, - some difficult periods.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10- I went to some dark depths, - to be honest.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13- When I was 34 years old...
0:09:13 > 0:09:18- ..I went to St David's Church - in Cardiff and was warmly welcomed.
0:09:18 > 0:09:22- I learnt what it was - to live in a Christian community...
0:09:22 > 0:09:26- ..and to understand - the call of God to all of us.
0:09:27 > 0:09:31- Not as a priest, - but for us all to serve Christ.
0:09:31 > 0:09:35- In the name of the Father, - the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38- Was it easy to turn in?
0:09:39 > 0:09:43- It wasn't easy, but once I crossed - the threshold into the church...
0:09:44 > 0:09:48- ..it was like crossing into a world - that was slightly different.
0:09:48 > 0:09:52- I could leave behind - the things that worried me...
0:09:52 > 0:09:55- ..the difficult things in my life...
0:09:55 > 0:09:58- ..and gradually learnt - about God's love.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02- Almighty God, - who forgives all who truly repent...
0:10:03 > 0:10:06- ..have mercy on you - and set you free from sin.
0:10:06 > 0:10:11- Why then take the extra step - and become a priest?
0:10:11 > 0:10:15- I remember one particular sermon - by Gwynn ap Gwilym...
0:10:15 > 0:10:17- ..about Paul's conversion.
0:10:17 > 0:10:21- At the end of the sermon, - Gwynn ap Gwilym said...
0:10:21 > 0:10:25- ..that the way Paul - had moved forward from this...
0:10:25 > 0:10:29- ..was through prayer, - jubilation and work.
0:10:30 > 0:10:34- He didn't know what was happening, - but he felt something within him.
0:10:34 > 0:10:39- I prayed intensely in church one day - and asked God...
0:10:40 > 0:10:43- .."What do you want me to do?"
0:10:43 > 0:10:48- I opened my eyes, - looked at my hands and just felt...
0:10:49 > 0:10:53- ..that God was asking me - to do His work.
0:10:55 > 0:11:00- From that moment on, I said, - "Fine, here I am, send me."
0:11:08 > 0:11:12- Rhun, Port Talbot is so busy.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15- Cars are whizzing by - and life goes on.
0:11:15 > 0:11:16- What is your work?
0:11:17 > 0:11:20- It starts with a prayer - at 7.30am in the church.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23- We can't wait for people - to come to us.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26- We have to go out - into the community, as Jesus did.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32- We've opened the St Paul's Centre.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36- It houses - Christians Against Poverty.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40- That organization - does immensely important work.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44- There is great poverty here, - and people get into debt.
0:11:44 > 0:11:49- Debt can cause great difficulties - for individuals and families.
0:11:49 > 0:11:53- It shatters lives - unless it's dealt with correctly.
0:11:53 > 0:11:59- Volunteers from the church - go to these people's homes...
0:11:59 > 0:12:01- ..just as someone to talk to.
0:12:02 > 0:12:07- They also offer themselves - as a friend from the church...
0:12:08 > 0:12:11- ..to help them through - a tough time in their life.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16- What have you got on next?
0:12:16 > 0:12:20- You're a young man in his 40s.
0:12:21 > 0:12:26- Does that offer wider possibilities - to reach out to more people?
0:12:26 > 0:12:31- We feel that a generation has been - lost here, if not two generations.
0:12:31 > 0:12:37- Some people just don't know - Jesus Christ's story at all.
0:12:37 > 0:12:41- That's why, when I first - came here three years ago...
0:12:42 > 0:12:47- ..I put on a nativity play - in the town's shopping centre.
0:12:48 > 0:12:52- It was a project - that united all the local churches.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56- It reached people, - they were touched by it.
0:12:56 > 0:13:00- It brought the true spirit - of Christmas into people's lives.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05- I believe that God knows - what He is doing.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08- We try to do all sorts of things.
0:13:08 > 0:13:12- Some will succeed, some won't.
0:13:12 > 0:13:17- But if we do so with faith and - confidence and don't succeed...
0:13:18 > 0:13:20- ..then we'll try something else.
0:13:27 > 0:13:31- Alltwen in the Swansea Valley - is the location for our next hymn.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34- The words - are by David Charles, Carmarthen...
0:13:35 > 0:13:37- ..about the great providence - of heaven.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39- The hymn tune is Builth.
0:15:24 > 0:15:30- For our next performance, we travel - to Cefn Cymerau near Harlech.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32- Capel Salem is located there...
0:15:32 > 0:15:37- ..which was immortalized - in Curnow Vosper's famous painting.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40- That painting - has hung in many Welsh homes.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43- Endaf Emlyn recorded an LP - based on the painting.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46- One of the songs from that record - is next.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50- To perform Salem Yn Y Wlad, - here's Al Lewis.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59- # I return to the painting
0:16:00 > 0:16:03- # That echoes old prayers
0:16:04 > 0:16:08- # From the beginning - of the century
0:16:08 > 0:16:11- # Salem
0:16:13 > 0:16:16- # Over in Meirionnydd
0:16:16 > 0:16:20- # From the meadows of Cefn Cymerau
0:16:21 > 0:16:24- # Voices from the past
0:16:25 > 0:16:28- # Salem
0:16:29 > 0:16:32- # The magic of the mind
0:16:33 > 0:16:36- # Takes us into the scene
0:16:37 > 0:16:41- # To meet the old faithful
0:16:42 > 0:16:45- # Salem
0:16:46 > 0:16:49- # Sian from Ty'n-y-fawnog
0:16:49 > 0:16:53- # Owen Sion from Garleg Goch
0:16:54 > 0:16:57- # Robert from Cae'r Meddyg
0:16:58 > 0:17:02- # And Laura
0:17:03 > 0:17:05- # We go to Salem
0:17:06 > 0:17:09- # Salem in the country
0:17:10 > 0:17:13- # We go to sing the old hymns
0:17:13 > 0:17:17- # We go back to my father's house
0:17:18 > 0:17:23- # We go to Salem in the country
0:17:25 > 0:17:30- # We go to Salem in the country
0:17:39 > 0:17:42- # The river Artro flows to the sea
0:17:43 > 0:17:46- # The age of man is like its waters
0:17:47 > 0:17:50- # We return to the source
0:17:51 > 0:17:53- # Salem
0:17:54 > 0:17:57- # The river is our life
0:17:57 > 0:18:01- # The mill wheel turns - once in a while
0:18:01 > 0:18:04- # Boulders come to break us
0:18:05 > 0:18:08- # Salem
0:18:09 > 0:18:12- # The plains come
0:18:12 > 0:18:16- # To slow down the river flow
0:18:16 > 0:18:19- # We hear the waves crashing
0:18:19 > 0:18:23- # On the shores
0:18:24 > 0:18:26- # Every river runs its course
0:18:27 > 0:18:30- # But the water flows into the sea
0:18:31 > 0:18:39- # Just like our souls to Jerusalem
0:18:39 > 0:18:42- # We go to Salem
0:18:42 > 0:18:45- # Salem in the country
0:18:45 > 0:18:49- # We go to sing the old hymns
0:18:49 > 0:18:53- # We go back to my father's house
0:18:54 > 0:18:59- # We go to Salem in the country
0:19:01 > 0:19:06- # We go to Salem in the country
0:19:08 > 0:19:11- # Salem
0:19:12 > 0:19:15- # Salem
0:19:15 > 0:19:23- # Salem in the country
0:19:23 > 0:19:26- # Salem
0:19:27 > 0:19:30- # Salem
0:19:30 > 0:19:37- # Salem in the country
0:19:38 > 0:19:41- # Salem
0:19:41 > 0:19:45- # Salem
0:19:45 > 0:19:51- # Salem in the country #
0:19:54 > 0:19:58- That's it. This is the last - programme we as a team will produce.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02- Thank you for your company - over the past few years.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04- We've had a great time.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08- To finish, we'll go to - the Tabernacle chapel in Cardiff.
0:20:08 > 0:20:12- The hymn tune is Clawdd Madog - and the words...
0:20:12 > 0:20:16- .."os gwelir fi, bechadur, - rhyw ddydd ar ben fy nhaith...
0:20:16 > 0:20:19- .."rhyfeddol fydd y canu - a newydd fydd yr iaith."
0:20:19 > 0:20:23- From us all, goodbye - and Happy New Year.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00- S4C Subtitles by Testun Cyf.
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