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As Rain from the Clouds

Author: Delores Dufner Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: As rain from the clouds will your word come to earth

Meter: 11.11.11.11.11.11.11.11 Appears in 79 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jonathan E. Spilman, 1812-1896 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51132 11561 65511 Used With Text: As Rain from the Clouds

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As Rain from the Clouds

Author: Delores Dufner, OSB, b. 1939 Hymnal: Evangelical Lutheran Worship #508 (2006) Meter: 11.11.11.11.11.11.11.11 First Line: As rain from the clouds will you word come to earth Topics: Word of God; Witness Languages: English Tune Title: AFTON WATER

As Rain from the Clouds

Author: Delores Dufner Hymnal: Scripture Song Database #323 (2008) First Line: [As Rain from the Clouds] Scripture: Philippians 1 Languages: English

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Delores Dufner

b. 1939 Person Name: Delores Dufner, OSB, b. 1939 Author of "As Rain from the Clouds" in Evangelical Lutheran Worship Delores Dufner is a member of St. Benedict’s Monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota, with Master's Degrees in Liturgical Music and Liturgical Studies. She is currently a member and a Fellow of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, the National Pastoral Musicians (NPM), the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), and the Monastic Worship Forum. Delores is a writer of liturgical, scripturally based hymn and song texts which have a broad ecumenical appeal and are contracted or licensed by 34 publishers in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and China. She has received more than 50 commissions to write texts for special occasions or needs and has published over 200 hymns, many of which have several different musical settings and appear in several publications. She is the author of three hymn collections: Sing a New Church (1994, Oregon Catholic Press), The Glimmer of Glory in Song (2004, GIA Publications), and And Every Breath, a Song (2011, GIA Publications). Delores, the middle child of five, was born and raised on a farm in the Red River Valley of North Dakota. She attended a one-room country school in which she learned to read music and play the tonette, later studying piano and organ. Delores was a school music teacher, private piano and organ instructor, and parish organist/choir director for twelve years. She served as liturgy coordinator for her religious community of 775 members for six years and as Director of the Office of Worship for the Diocese of St. Cloud, Minnesota for fifteen years. She subsequently worked as a liturgical music consultant for the Diocese of Ballarat, Victoria in southeast Australia for fifteen months. At present, she is preparing a fourth hymn collection and assisting with liturgy planning and music leadership at the monastery. Delores Dufner