In the Anglican Communion of Nigeria, poorly-trained catechists, assisted by elder called Baba-Egbes, usually chosen from the congregation, managed village churches in the pre and post independent eras in Nigeria, if such churches had no ordained priests, organized choirs, organs and organists. For every church service, the catechists chose very popular hymns and their tunes and dictated their words, line by line, so that worshippers, who had no hymn books of their own, could actively participates in the praise songs.