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Mark Edwards

Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Arranger of "BUNESSAN" in Celebrating Grace Hymnal

b. 1949 Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Author of "Peace of Our Praying" in Worship and Song Terry W. York is Professor of Christian Ministry and Church Music at Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary. He joined the faculty in 1998 after serving three years as the Associate Pastor of Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas, TX. He received the Bachelor of Arts degree from California Baptist University and his Master of Church Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He has been Minister of Music in churches in California and Arizona. From 1984-1995 he served at the Baptist Sunday School Board (now LifeWay Christian Resources) in Nashville, TN. His duties there included being the Project Coordinator for The Baptist Hymnal, 1991. In all, Dr. York has published more than 40 hymns including the well-known Worthy of Worship. His hymn Give Us Courage was commissioned by the Truett Seminary administration and approved by the Truett Seminary faculty as the official Seminary Hymn in 2006. In addition to his hymns, Dr. York has published more than 60 choral anthem texts set by composers such as Bob Burroughs, David Danner, Tom Fettke, Benjamin Harlan, Mary McDonald, Earlene Rentz, David Schwoebel, Joseph Martin, Vicki Hancock Wright, Taylor Scott Davis, and Dan Goeller. The Worship Matrix, co-authored with David Bolin (Celebrating Grace, Inc., 2010), is the fourth of Dr. York’s books to have been translated into Chinese. In June 2008 it was his privilege to be one of two featured plenary speakers at The World Association of Chinese Church Musicians’ biannual conference which met in Kuching, Malaysia. In June 2009, the Baptist Church Music Conference, meeting in Nashville, TN, gave Dr. York the W. Hines Sims Award, its most prestigious recognition. Many of Dr. York’s anthems, books, hymns, sermons, essays, and poems can be accessed on the website he shares with David Bolin, www.textandtune.com. Dr. York and his wife, Janna, have two children and three grandchildren. --Email from Terry W. York to Tina Schneider, 2 May 2014. DNAH Archives

C. Richard Hunt

b. 1930 Person Name: C. Richard Hunt (1930-) Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Arranger of "BUNESSAN" in Common Praise (1998)

Rusty Edwards

b. 1955 Person Name: Rusty Edwards, b. 1955 Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Composer of "BOZEMAN" in Evangelical Lutheran Worship

Jeffery W. Rowthorn

b. 1934 Person Name: Jeffery Rowthorn, b. 1934 Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Author of "This Is a Day, Lord, Gladly Awaited" in Evangelical Lutheran Worship Jeffery W. Rowthorn (b. Newport, Gwent, Wales, 1934) wrote this text in 1978 while he was Chapel Minister at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut. The text was first published in Laudamus (1980), a hymnal supplement edited by Rowthorn and used at the Yale Divinity School. Rowthorn graduated from Cambridge and Oxford Universities, Union Theological Seminary in New York, and Cuddeson Theological College in Oxford. Ordained in 1963 in the Church of England, he served several congregations in England before immigrating to the United States, where he was chaplain at Union Theological Seminary and a faculty member in liturgics at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, which he helped to establish. He was then elected Suffragan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut. The writer of several hymns, Rowthorn was also coeditor with Russell Schulz-Widmar of A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools (1991). Rowthorn has since moved to Paris, where he is Bishop in Charge of the American Churches in Europe. --hymnopedia.com/

Tony Arango

Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Translator of "Morning Has Broken (Siempre amanece)" in Santo, Santo, Santo

David Budmen

Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Composer of "BUNESSAN" in Worship in Song

Skinner Chávez-Melo

1944 - 1992 Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Harmonizer of "BUNESSAN" in El Himnario Skinner Chavez-Melo, an organist, conductor and composer who was music director at the St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church in Manhattan, died on Saturday at New York Downtown Hospital. He was 47 years old and lived in Manhattan. He died of spinal cancer, said his brother, Juan Francisco. Mr. Chavez-Melo was born in Mexico City, but completed his musical studies in the United States, receiving degrees at Eastern Nazarene College and the Union Theological Seminary, and pursuing further studies at the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School. He toured internationally as an organist and conducted orchestras in Mexico, Brazil and the United States. As a composer, he wrote works for organ, choir and orchestra, and contributed hymn settings to several published hymnals, including those of the United Church of Christ and Yale University. He also lectured and presented workshops on Hispanic church music. Besides directing music at St. Rose, Mr. Chavez-Melo conducted the annual Singing Christmas Tree concerts at the South Street Seaport. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/28

William L. Wallace

1933 - 2024 Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Author of "What Is the Pattern" in One in Faith

W. Donald Davison

b. 1937 Person Name: Donald Davison, b. 1937 Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Arranger of "BUNESSAN" in The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook

Andrew Pratt

b. 1948 Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Author of "Mary and Joseph Came to the Temple" in Glory to God

David Mowbray

b. 1938 Person Name: David Mowbray, b. 1938 Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Author of "Lord of creation, giver of gladness" in The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook David Mowbray (b. 1938) was born in Wallington, Surrey, England. He attended Dulwich College, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge where he read English. He gained an MA at Trinity in Bristol and a BD at London (External). Ordained in the Church of England, he was a curate at St. Giles in Northampton and at St. Mary's in Walford. Appointed Vicar of Broxborne, Herts in 1970 in 1984, he became Vicar of All Saints, Hertfordshire. In 1991 he became Vicar of St. Matthew's Darley Abbey, Derby, where he serves to this day. He has been writing hymns since 1977 and most of his texts are represented by Jubilate Hymns. Three of his hymn texts have been included in Hope's new hymnal Worship & Rejoice (2001). --www.hopepublishing.com

Dimas Planas-Belfort

1934 - 1992 Person Name: Dimas Planas-Belfort, 1934-1992 Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Translator of "Praise and Thanksgiving (Te Damos Gracias)" in Worship (4th ed.)

Peter Cutts

1937 - 2024 Person Name: Peter Warwick Cutts, 1937- Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Composer of "MANY MANSIONS" in Together in Song

Emett Loera

Person Name: Emett Loera, b. 1955 Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Translator (Spanish) of "This Day God Gives Me (En Este Día Dios Da la Vida)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Susan Palo Cherwien

1953 - 2021 Person Name: Susan Palo Cherwien Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Author of "Day of Arising" in Celebrating Grace Hymnal

Per Harling

b. 1948 Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Composer of "EARTH PRAYER" in Sing the Faith

George Lockwood

b. 1946 Person Name: George Lockwood, b. 1946 Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Translator of "Now It Is Evening (Ya se oscurece)" in Santo, Santo, Santo Rev. George Lockwood was born in 1946 and has been a missionary to Costa Rica. He has pastored Spanish-speaking congregations in both Arizona and California and served on the editorial committee for the Methodist hymnal supplement Celebremos II. In addition, Lockwood has traveled throughout Central and South America interviewing church musicians and gathering new hymns from both Spanish and Portuguese cultures which he then presents at conferences and workshops. The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993

Effie Chastain de Naylor

1889 - 1960 Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Composer of "AL IRNOS (Chastain)" Born in Mexico in 1889 to parents from the U.S. who were missionaries. She married George Dent Naylor, a Methodist missionary and they worked in Guantánamo. She was a composer and choir director. Her music is widely used in Cuban churches. Dianne Shapiro, from A Social History of Cuban's Protestants: God and the Nation, by James A.Baer (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019)

William B. Boomer

1887 - 1924 Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Composer of "CARIÑO (Boomer)" Chair of the hymnal committee for El Himnario: Para el uso de las iglesias evangelicas de habla española en todo el mundo (1931). Noted as "the veteran missionary to Chile" in the publisher's note in this hymnal.

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