I grew up singing this song at my Cornelius Community Baptist Church in Cornelius, Oregon, United States of America (USA). The state of Oregon is above California and under Canada and next to the Pacific Ocean. I grew up around farmland in a logging city of about 20,000 people. Born in 1985, in Forest Grove. I really enjoy singing these types of songs. We had missionaries, when I was a kid, I think their names were Bill and Heather Williams, and they went off to the Ivory Coast. So, when I was about maybe five years old, I started hearing and learning about Africa a little.