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If We Could Be Like the Widow

Author: Mary R. Bittner Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 2 hymnals Matching Instances: 2 Topics: Hunger Sharing Scripture: 1 Kings 17:8-16 Used With Tune: FEED THE HUNGRY

FEED THE HUNGRY

Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 Composer and/or Arranger: Mary R. Bittner Tune Key: E Flat Major Used With Text: If We Could Be Like the Widow

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 Composer and/or Arranger: João Wilson Faustini Tune Key: G Major or modal Incipit: 55112 23311 44332 Used With Text: If We Could Be Like the Widow

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If We Could Be Like the Widow

Author: Mary R. Bittner, b. 1938 Hymnal: When Breaks the Dawn #74 (2006) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Topics: Christian Witness; Commitment; Discipleship and Service; Hunger and Poverty; Mission Scripture: 1 Kings 17:8-16 Languages: English Tune Title: ALIANÇA

If We Could Be Like the Widow

Author: Mary R. Bittner Hymnal: Water from the Rock #p.13 [48] (2004) Meter: 8.7.8.7 Topics: Hunger Sharing Scripture: 1 Kings 17:8-16 Tune Title: FEED THE HUNGRY

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Mary Bittner

1938 - 2007 Person Name: Mary R. Bittner Author of "If We Could Be Like the Widow" in Water from the Rock Mary Bittner was a native of Pennsylvania and received a B.S. in music education from Penn State University. She taught piano, organ, clarinet, and school music, and also served as music director and/or organist in Baptist, United Methodist, and Presbyterian churches and a U.S. Air Force Base Protestant chapel. In 1991 she became organist at Knox Presbyterian Church in Naperville, IL. She was an active member of the Naperville chapter of the Illinois State Music Teachers Association, and honored as Member of the year in 1998. She also participated in recitals and activities of the Fox Valley chapter of the American Guild of Organists. She began writing hymns in 1990 while enrolled in a church music degree program at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. She received her Master of Theological Studies in church music in 1993, the same year she began attending hymn writing workshops and conferences of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Mary died from cancer in 2007. Source: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailyherald/obituary.aspx?pid=93934328

João Wilson Faustini

1931 - 2023 Composer of "ALIANÇA" in When Breaks the Dawn b. 1931, Bariri, São Paulo, Brazil. Presbyterian pastor, choir director, organist, singer, composer, translator, arranger and publisher of largest collection of Sacred Music in the Portuguese language. From 1982 to 1996 - Pastor at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) Newark, NJ St. Paul's Presbyterian Church in Newark is the oldest Brazilian Presbyterian Church in the USA. Retired on December 31, 1996. After Rev. Faustini was a Minister of Music at Second Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth.