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John L. Bell

b. 1949 Scripture: Exodus 1:8-22 Author of "There Is a Line of Women" in Voices Together John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal: "I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)] That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications. Emily Brink

Charlene Nafziger

Scripture: Exodus 1:8-22 Composer of "CLIMBING VINE" in Voices Together

Ruth C. Duck

b. 1947 Person Name: Ruth Duck (1947-) Scripture: Exodus 1:8-22, 2:1-10 Author of "Sleep, Holy Child, Now Hid Away" in Common Praise (1998)

Noah Zuercher

Scripture: Exodus 1:14 Author (stanza 1) of "The Lord Hath Done Great Things" in Sing and Rejoice!

Harold Thiessen

Scripture: Exodus 1:14 Author, stanzas 2, 3, 4 of "The Lord Hath Done Great Things" in Sing and Rejoice!

Dosia Carlson

b. 1930 Scripture: Exodus 1:1-14 Author of "In Egypt under Pharaoh" in The New Century Hymnal Dosia Carlson (b.1930) is an inspiration to differently abled people. A bout with polio shattered her dream of being a missionary in China. After studying at Oberlin College she went on to seminary, was ordained, earned a doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh and served on the faculty of The Defiance College. She is founder of DUET, formerly Center DOAR (Developing Older Adult Resources) She lived at the Beatitudes Campus Lifestyle Community in Phoenix, AZ. Among her many awards are Arizona Woman of the Year and the Antoinette Brown Award for outstanding women clergy. She has published two collections of hymns. Her hymn "Egypt Under Pharaoh" is included in The New Century Hymnal (A.Clyde, Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1995). Mary Louise VanDyke

Jeannette M. Lindholm

b. 1961 Scripture: Exodus 1:8-22 Author of "With Mary Sing Magnificat" in Voices Together

Charlotte E. Couchman

Scripture: Exodus 1-40 Author of "Exodus" in Each Little Dewdrop Wife of Thomas D. Couchman.

John McIntosh

b. 1932 Person Name: John McIntosh (1932-) Scripture: Exodus 1:8-22, 2:1-10 Composer of "SELINA" in Common Praise (1998)

Henry Thomas Smart

1813 - 1879 Person Name: Henry T. Smart Scripture: Exodus 1:1-14 Composer of "LANCASHIRE" in The New Century Hymnal Henry Smart (b. Marylebone, London, England, 1813; d. Hampstead, London, 1879), a capable composer of church music who wrote some very fine hymn tunes (REGENT SQUARE, 354, is the best-known). Smart gave up a career in the legal profession for one in music. Although largely self taught, he became proficient in organ playing and composition, and he was a music teacher and critic. Organist in a number of London churches, including St. Luke's, Old Street (1844-1864), and St. Pancras (1864-1869), Smart was famous for his extemporizations and for his accompaniment of congregational singing. He became completely blind at the age of fifty-two, but his remarkable memory enabled him to continue playing the organ. Fascinated by organs as a youth, Smart designed organs for important places such as St. Andrew Hall in Glasgow and the Town Hall in Leeds. He composed an opera, oratorios, part-songs, some instrumental music, and many hymn tunes, as well as a large number of works for organ and choir. He edited the Choralebook (1858), the English Presbyterian Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867), and the Scottish Presbyterian Hymnal (1875). Some of his hymn tunes were first published in Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861). Bert Polman