With “Un Corazón”
We have been knocking on this door through various channels for several years. A few hours ago, it opened wide.
Monday morning at 2:15 a.m. we jump out of bed. A cab driver takes us to Lima airport. There are long flights to Orlando and on to Dallas. Shortly before midnight, we reach El Paso in the far west of Texas on the Rio Grande, less than 10 minutes from the Mexican border. At 1 a.m. we collapse into our beds in a cheap hotel. On the agenda for Tuesday afternoon is a meeting with Pastor Daniel Jaguar, leader of the band “Un Corazón”.
Who knew these musicians from one of the countless church congregations in El Paso? But then they sang the song “Jesucristo Basta” and they were at the top of the Christian music scene in Latin America. If you add up the views on the various platforms, there must have been around 700 million visitors who internalized their song. In other words, over half a billion people. Her song was not a heart-rending love song, not John Lennon’s “Let it be” and not Bob Dylan’s “Blowing in the wind”. Her composition about Jesus Christ can now be described as the anthem of an entire continent.
In the church office, the head of “Un Corazón”, Pastor Daniel Jaguar, hears what Diospi Suyana is all about. “We have to go there!” he says. “We have to see that!” His wife Kim, the band’s singer, had a nice chat with the missionary doctors Zeier and John in the foyer beforehand. God willing, “Un Corazón” will close the fifth festival in Curahuasi on April 30, 2027. And all 5,000 people in the amphitheater and hundreds of thousands in front of their laptops on streaming will sing along to the song: “Jesucristo basta” – Jesus Christ is enough.
During the night, the two mission doctors will fly back to Lima via Houston. Mission accomplished. Mission accomplished. We did what we could, everything else is in God’s hands. /KDJ
Caption above: Music acoustician Jeovaney López (who made the meeting possible), Dr. Benjamin Zeier, Pastor Eduardo Herrera, Pastor Daniel Jaguar (head of Un Corazón) and Dr. Klaus John after the lecture in the main hall of the church. Two large church services are celebrated here on Sundays, each with around 400 participants. A third service is to be added soon). Many thanks to Doris Manco and Jeovanny López, who patiently prepared the meeting in El Paso.
Click on the picture below. The song has received over 400 million clicks on this YouTube page alone.
