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Hymns Sung (New Zealand)
During 2017, we conducted a sacrament meeting hymns survey to find out which hymns are sung most commonly in sacrament meetings around the world. This page shows results specific to New Zealand. To see an overview of results from the full survey, see Hymns Sung in Sacrament Meetings.
About the data set
Church membership in New Zealand (31 Dec 2017): 113,436
Congregations in New Zealand (wards and branches): 224
- 4 congregations from New Zealand participated in the survey (1.8%). The full list can be found below.
- 41 total sacrament meetings were reported (only a subset of wards reported every week).
Top 15 Overall
- Because I Have Been Given Much (5)
- I Stand All Amazed (5)
- Behold the Great Redeemer Die (4)
- Joseph Smith’s First Prayer (4)
- Reverently and Meekly Now (4)
- A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief (3)
- As Now We Take the Sacrament (3)
- Count Your Blessings (3)
- Families Can Be Together Forever (3)
- How Firm a Foundation (3)
- How Great the Wisdom and the Love (3)
- I Am a Child of God (3)
- I Believe in Christ (3)
- I Know My Father Lives (3)
- I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go (3)
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- In Humility, Our Savior (3)
- O God, the Eternal Father (3)
- The Day Dawn Is Breaking (3)
- Away in a Manger (2)
- Come unto Jesus (2)
- Come, Come, Ye Saints (2)
- Did You Think to Pray? (2)
- Far, Far Away on Judea’s Plains (2)
- For the Beauty of the Earth (2)
- God Loved Us, So He Sent His Son (2)
- High on the Mountain Top (2)
- Jesus, Once of Humble Birth (2)
- Joy to the World (2)
- Love at Home (2)
- Onward, Christian Soldiers (2)
- Our Savior’s Love (2)
- Praise to the Man (2)
- Redeemer of Israel (2)
- Secret Prayer (2)
- Sweet Hour of Prayer (2)
Top 15, Adjusted (excl. sacrament hymns)
- Because I Have Been Given Much (5)
- Joseph Smith’s First Prayer (4)
- A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief (3)
- Count Your Blessings (3)
- Families Can Be Together Forever (3)
- How Firm a Foundation (3)
- I Am a Child of God (3)
- I Believe in Christ (3)
- I Know My Father Lives (3)
- I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go (3)
- The Day Dawn Is Breaking (3)
- Away in a Manger (2)
- Come unto Jesus (2)
- Come, Come, Ye Saints (2)
- Did You Think to Pray? (2)
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- Far, Far Away on Judea’s Plains (2)
- For the Beauty of the Earth (2)
- High on the Mountain Top (2)
- Joy to the World (2)
- Love at Home (2)
- Onward, Christian Soldiers (2)
- Our Savior’s Love (2)
- Praise to the Man (2)
- Redeemer of Israel (2)
- Secret Prayer (2)
- Sweet Hour of Prayer (2)
- Teach Me to Walk in the Light (2)
- The Iron Rod (2)
- We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet (2)
- Where Can I Turn for Peace? (2)
- As I Search the Holy Scriptures (1)
- Beautiful Zion, Built Above (1)
- Before Thee, Lord, I Bow My Head (1)
- Brightly Beams Our Father’s Mercy (1)
- Choose the Right (1)