Family’s Soul-Stirring ‘When We All Get to Heaven’ Performance

This family’s soul-stirring ‘When We All Get to Heaven’ Performance will lift your spirit and warm your heart. This group of brothers loves getting together and worshiping God. Play the video to see for yourself!

Five of the Kuykendall siblings sing in this video, while one plays the piano. It’s wonderful to hear youthful voices sing and love, and harmonize together as a family. And it is an excellent song that they’ve chosen. “When We All Get to Heaven” is a wondrous hymn that’s bright and hopeful. It speaks about the things we can look forward to as believers after death. Some of the thoroughly composed lyrics are: 

When we all get to heaven,
what a day of rejoicing that will be!
When we all see Jesus,
we'll sing and shout the victory!

This hymn was written by Eliza Edmunds Hewitt in 1898, during a difficult time in her life. Eliza was a schoolteacher and hymn writer. One day, after she scolded a student, the student maliciously hit her back with a slate, which left Eliza in a cast for six months. Eliza never recovered from the incident and remained invalid for the rest of her life. It was after her accident that she threw herself into writing hymns.

It’s easy to see why these lyrics came to Eliza. She likely longed to be restored and looked forward to greater things, as we all do sometimes. Despite her circumstances, Eliza found the courage to hold onto hope, and we should do the same. If you’re a believer in Christ, no matter what the circumstance, you can have hope that you will one day see those “pearly gates” and “golden streets.”

This cover by the Kuykendall family is an uplifting reminder to us all, so be encouraged as you listen to their song.