I Want to Be a Missionary Now
Author: Grietje Terburg Rowley
Composer: Grietje Terburg Rowley
Languages (42)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Albanian: Un’ Dua të Jem Misionar Tani
- Bulgarian: Аз искам мисионер да съм сега
- Cebuano: Gusto Ko Karon nga Mamisyonaryo
- Chinese (Simplified): 我现在就想当个传教士
- Chinese (Traditional): 我現在就想當個傳教士
- Croatian: Ja želim biti misionar sad
- Czech: Já misionářem už teď chci být
- Danish: Jeg ønsker nu at være missionær
- Dutch: Een zendeling wil ik vandaag al zijn
- English: I Want to Be a Missionary Now
- Estonian: Ma tahaks juba olla misjonär
- Fijian: Au Bole Meu sa Kaulotu Edai
- Finnish: Lähetyssaarnaaja
- French: Je voudrais déjà partir en mission
- German: Ich wär so gern schon heut ein Missionar
- Greek: Θέλω να πάω ιεραποστολή
- Hungarian: Ó, bárcsak szolgálhatnék missziót!
- Icelandic: Kristniboði strax
- Indonesian: Ku Ingin Jadi Misi Sekarang
- Italian: Un missionario voglio diventar
- Japanese: 宣教師になりたいな
- Kekchi: Nawaj tinwanq choqʼ jun li misioneer
- Khmer (Cambodian): ខ្ញុំចង់ក្លាយជាអ្នកផ្សាយសាសនាពេលនេះ
- Korean: 나 지금 선교사 되고 싶네
- Latvian: Jau tagad gribu kalpot misijā
- Lithuanian: Aš noriu vykdyt misiją tuojau
- Malagasy: Mba te ho misiônera aho izao
- Mandarin (Romanized/Pinyin): Wǒ xiànzài jiù xiǎng dāng gè chuánjiàoshì
- Mongolian: Би яг одоо номлогч болохыг хүсч байна
- Norwegian: Mitt ønske er å være misjonær
- Polish: Chcę małym misjonarzem być już dziś
- Portuguese: Um Missionário Já Eu Quero Ser
- Romanian: Misionar să fiu acum aş vrea
- Russian: Миссионером стать стремлюсь
- Samoan: Ou Te Fia Avea Nei Ma Faifeautalai
- Spanish: Yo quiero ser un misionero ya
- Swedish: Jag skulle vilja vara missionär
- Tagalog: Nais Ko nang Maging Misyonero
- Tahitian: E misionare au i tēnāna
- Thai: ฉันอยากเป็นผู้สอนศาสนาเดี๋ยวนี้
- Tongan: ʻOku ou Fie Hoko Leva ko ha Faifekau
- Ukrainian: Служити хочу як місіонер
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Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1984 or earlier.
In copyright (IRI)
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: Music from the Friend (1971–2020) (1971–2020), Oct 1984.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
1. I want to be a missionary now. I don’t want to wait until I’m grown. I want to share the gospel while I’m young, For I have a testimony of my own.
2. I want to tell my friends about our church And the happiness it brings to me. I’ll tell them how the gospel was restored, Tell them how the Book of Mormon came to be.
3. Then I can be a missionary now. I don’t have to wait until I’m grown. I’ll live each day the best that I know how, And they’ll see I have a testimony of my own, A testimony of my very own.