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Shepherd Songs
Publication Date: 2002 Publisher: Selah Publishing Co. Publication Place: Kingston, NY Editors: Russell Schulz-Widmar
Shepherd Songs
Are You a Shepherd
Author: Ruth Duck Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Are you a shepherd, good shepherd who leads us Used With Tune: ZILKER PARK
Are You a Shepherd
Christ Jesus, in Your Name
Author: Shirley Erena Murray Appears in 1 hymnal Used With Tune: PECAN STREET
Christ Jesus, in Your Name
You Gather Us Within Your Fold
Author: Patricia Clark Appears in 1 hymnal Used With Tune: GARTEN
You Gather Us Within Your Fold
WILDFLOWERS
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Jane Marshall Used With Text: As New Parents in the Night
WILDFLOWERS
FORTY ACRES
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: David Ashley White Used With Text: Good Shepherd, You Know Us
FORTY ACRES
MOUNT BONNELL
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: K. Lee Scott Used With Text: Lord Christ, You Called the Twelve
MOUNT BONNELL
Fields of Stars Above Them
Author: Gracia Grindal Hymnal: SS2002 #1 (2002) Tune Title: HILL COUNTRY
Fields of Stars Above Them
O Christ, Who Faced in Deserts Bare
Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Hymnal: SS2002 #2 (2002) Tune Title: BARTON SPRINGS
O Christ, Who Faced in Deserts Bare
Lord Christ, You Called the Twelve
Author: Herman G. Stuempfle, Jr. Hymnal: SS2002 #3 (2002) Tune Title: MOUNT BONNELL
Lord Christ, You Called the Twelve
Timothy Dudley-Smith
b. 1926 Hymnal Number: 2 Author of "O Christ, Who Faced in Deserts Bare" in Shepherd Songs Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973).
Bert Polman
Timothy Dudley-Smith
Herman G. Stuempfle
1923 - 2007 Person Name: Herman G. Stuempfle, Jr. Hymnal Number: 3 Author of "Lord Christ, You Called the Twelve" in Shepherd Songs Rev. Dr. Herman G. Stuempfle, Jr., 83, died Tuesday, March 13, 2007, after a long illness. Born April 2, 1923, in Clarion, he was the son of the late Herman G. and Helen (Wolfe) Stuempfle, Sr. Stuempfle lived most of his life in Gettysburg, PA. He served as President of the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg. He attended Hughesville public schools, and was a graduate of Susquehanna University and the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. He received additional advanced degrees from Union Theological Seminary in New York and a doctoral degree at Southern California School of Theology at Claremont. He retired in 1989. Rev. Dr. Stuempfle was the author of several books and numerous articles and lectures on preaching, history, and theology. He was also among the most honored and respected hymn writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Rev. Dr. Stuempfle was known for his leadership in community and civic projects. Always taking an active stance on social issues, he participated in the creation of day care centers, served on the Gettysburg interchurch social action committee, helped create and support prison ministries and a homeless shelter, and tutored young people in the after school program of Christ Lutheran Church, where he was a long time member.
--Excerpts from his obituary published in Evening Sun from Mar. 15 to Mar. 16, 2007
Herman G. Stuempfle
Jaroslav J. Vajda
1919 - 2008 Hymnal Number: 4 Author of "You're My Good Shepherd" in Shepherd Songs Jaroslav J. Vajda (b. Lorain, Ohio, 1919; d. 2008) Born of Czechoslovakian parents, Vajda was educated at Concordia College in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Concordia Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. Ordained as a Lutheran pastor in 1944, he served congregations in Pennsylvania and Indiana until 1963. He was editor of the periodicals The Lutheran Beacon (1959-1963) and This Day (1963-1971) and book editor and developer for Concordia Publishing House in St. Louis from 1971 until his retirement in 1986. Working mainly with hymn texts, Vajda served on several Lutheran commissions of worship. A writer of original poetry since his teens, he was the author of They Followed the King (1965) and Follow the King (1977). His translations from Slovak include Bloody Sonnets (1950), Slovak Christmas (1960), An Anthology of Slovak Literature (1977), and contributions to the Lutheran Worship Supplement (1969) and the Lutheran Book of Worship (1978). A collection of his hymn texts, carols, and hymn translations was issued as Now the Joyful Celebration (1987); its sequel is So Much to Sing About (1991). Vajda's hymns are included in many modern hymnals, and he was honored as a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada in 1988.
Bert Polman
Jaroslav J. Vajda
