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Elías Gabriel Galván
b. 1938 Person Name: Elías Galván Author of "Oración por la creación" in Mil Voces para Celebrar Elias Galvan was born in San Juan Acozac, Puebla, Mexico, into a Methodist parsonage. He attended high school at the Instituteo Mexicano Madero in Puebla, a Methodist boarding school. On a scholarship from the Spanish-American Institute, a United Methodist institution related to the former Southern California-Arizona Annual Conference, he attended Compton Junior College and later obtained a B.A. degree from California State University at Long Beach. He attended the School of Theology at Claremont where he obtained a Rel. D.
He became a probationary member of the Southern California-Arizona Conference, and later was received into full membership and ordained an elder. He has served the following appointments: Asbury United Methodist Church as Associate Pastor; Pastor of City Terrace United Methodist Church and the Church of All Nations in Los Angeles; Director of Ethnic Planning and Strategy; District Superintendent, Santa Barbara District, with two years as Dean of the Cabinet; Conference Council Director.
He was a delegate to the General and Jurisdictional Conferences of 1972 - 1984, serving as chair of one of the legislative committees in 1972. He has served on the General Commission on Religion and Race (1972-76); the General Council on Finance and Administration (1976-84), in the second quadrennium chairing the Council's Division on Administrative Services.
During 1983 and 1984 he served as President of the Southern California Ecumenical Council. He has been very active in the Hispanic caucus of the former Pacific and Southwest Annual Conference and the MARCHA, the national Hispanic caucus, of which he was the first chairperson of the coordinating committee; appointed by the Council of Bishops to Chair the Committee to Develop a National Plan for Hispanic Ministries for the 1989-1992 quadrennium.
In 1984, he was elected to the episcopacy and was assigned to the newly-created Phoenix Area, Desert Southwest Conference. He served on the General Council on Ministries (1984-88); General Board of Discipleship (1989-92); President of the College of Bishops of the Western Jurisdiction (1989). Trustee, School of Theology at Claremont, California (1985- ); General Board of Global Ministries (1992-2000). Bishop Galvan retired in 2004.
On July 12, 1986, he married Zoraida Freytes, a native of Puerto Rico, who was raised in a United Methodist parsonage. They have one son, Elias Gabriel, who was born while Bishop Galvan was serving his second quadrennium in the Phoenix Episcopal Area.
http://www.umc.org/bishops/elias-g-galvan
Elías Gabriel Galván
Henry Van Dyke
1852 - 1933 Author of "Prayer for Purity of Thought" in Song and Service Book for Ship and Field
See biography and works at CCEL
Henry Van Dyke
Laurence Hull Stookey
1937 - 2016 Person Name: Laurence Hull Stookey, siglon XX Author of "Miércoles de Ceniza" in Mil Voces para Celebrar res.: Rockville, Md.; prof., Wesley Theological Seminary, Wash. D.C.
Rev. Stookey died October 16, 2016. --UM News
Laurence Hull Stookey
St. John Chrysostom
347 - 407 Person Name: St. Chrysostom, circa 347-407 Author of "General Supplication" in Song and Service Book for Ship and Field See John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407
St. John Chrysostom
Lyn Seils Robertson
Author of "Our Father who art in heaven, Our Creator" in For the Living of These Days
Lyn Seils Robertson
Elizabeth Basset
1908 - 2000 Author of "Oración personal" in Mil Voces para Celebrar Lady Elizabeth Legge Basset March 5, 1908 to William Legge, 7th Earl of Dartmouth and Lady Ruperta Wynn-Carington. Basset had a deep faith and she compiled five anthologies of prayers and poems. She served as lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother from 1959 to 1993 and was a reassuring presence and friend to the Queen. She died in 2000.
Dianne Shapiro, from Obituary, "The Telegraph," Dec 5, 2000 and The Peerage (www.thepeerage.com) retrieved 4-14-2018
Elizabeth Basset
Joel N. Martínez
b. 1940 Author of "Oración para el domingo de paz con justicia" in Mil Voces para Celebrar Joel is the grandson of sharecropper farmers who came to the U. S. at the turn of the century. He was born in Seguin, TX, to Guadalupe and Dora Martinez. He graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a B.A. in history. While in El Paso, he met Raquel Mora, a Methodist pastor's daughter. They married on June 9, 1961, and Joel enrolled in Perkins School of Theology in the fall of 1961.
Ordained deacon and elder by Bishop Paul E. Martin, Joel held membership in the Rio Grande Conference until his election to the episcopacy in 1992. Pastoral appointments were in Dallas, San Antonio and El Paso. He served as Director of Planning and Development at Newark Houchen Center in El Paso and later, Executive Secretary, Office of Ethnic and Language Ministries, National Division, GBGM. Joel served as district superintendent in the Rio Grande Conference and as President of the Greater Dallas Community of Churches. He was a delegate to the Seventh Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Canberra, Australia, 1991.
From early exposure to the plight of farm workers, and in student ministry to migrant workers, Joel learned to appreciate the urgent need for poor people to organize in order to participate more equitably in society. He worked with Cesar Chavez during the 1970's, worked to establish the first federally funded health clinic for the poor in El Paso, was a founding member of the National Hispanic Caucus in the UMC in 1970, and supported the organizing of poor fishermen on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico in the late 1970's. Joel worked on the initial proposals to the 1976 General Conference for a Missional Priority on the Ethnic Minority Local Church. He chaired the National Missional Priority Coordinating Committee in 1984-88. He chaired the National Plan for Hispanic Ministries National Committee (1992-2000).
He served as bishop in Nebraska for eight years and returned to serve as resident bishop of the San Antonio Episcopal Area from 2000–2008. He chaired the National Plan for Hispanic Ministry of the United Methodist Church from 1992–2000. He served as President of the General Board of Global Ministries for two quadrennia, 2000–2008. Since retiring in 2008, he organized and directs the Oral History Project on Hispanic/Latino United Methodism which is an affiliate of the General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church, He serves on the Board of Trustees of Lydia Patterson Institute, The Hispanic Cultural Center in San Antonio, the National Board of the Industrial Areas Foundation, and the Advisory Committee of Encounter with Christ, a Permanent Fund for mission in Latin America and the Caribbean. In retirement, he served as Interim General Secretary of the General Board of Global Ministries from September, 2009 – March, 2010. A graduate of Perkins School of Theology, SMU, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1995, and in 1996 Nebraska Wesleyan University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree. He and his spouse Raquel Mora Martínez are co-authors/editors of Fiesta Cristiana: Resources for Worship, published by Abingdon Press in 2003. They are currently working on a Research and Publishing Project to develop liturgical and historical resources for the Church.
FVS - from Bishop Joel Martinez - The United Methodist Church
Joel N. Martínez
Brother Roger
1915 - 2005 Person Name: Hermano Roger Author of "Tú, Cristo" in Mil Voces para Celebrar Roger Schütz, popularly known as Brother Roger (French: Frère Roger; Provence, Switzerland, May 12, 1915 – Taizé, August 16, 2005), was a Swiss Christian leader and monastic. In 1940 Schütz founded the Taizé Community, an ecumenical monastic community in Burgundy, France, serving as its first prior until his death in 2005. Towards the end of his life, the Taizé Community was attracting international attention, welcoming thousands of young pilgrims every week, which it has continued to do after his death.
FVS - from Wikipedia
Brother Roger
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