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John L. Bell

b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell, b. 1949 Topics: The Ministry of Jesus Christ Author of "Jesus Christ is waiting" in Singing the Faith 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

David Haas

b. 1957 Person Name: David Haas, b. 1957 Topics: The Ministry of Jesus Christ Author of "Rejoice and be glad!" in Singing the Faith

Michael Joncas

b. 1951 Person Name: Michael Joncas, b. 1951 Topics: The Ministry of Jesus Christ Arranger of "[Blest are they, the poor in spirit]" in Singing the Faith

Ruth C. Duck

b. 1947 Person Name: Ruth C. Duck, b. 1947 Topics: The Ministry of Jesus Christ Author of "'Come, now, you blessed, eat at my table'" in Singing the Faith

Anonymous

Topics: The Ministry of Jesus Christ Author of "A new commandment I give unto you" in Singing the Faith In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

Graham Kendrick

b. 1950 Person Name: Graham Kendrick, b. 1950 Topics: The Ministry of Jesus Christ Author of "Love each other" in Singing the Faith Graham Kendrick (b. England, August 2, 1950), the son of a Baptist minister in Northamptonshire, is one of the most prolific Christian singer-songwriters in the United Kingdom. He’s written music for over thirty years, and to date has released thirty-eight albums. He is best known for his songs “Shine, Jesus, Shine,” “Knowing You,” and “The Servant King.” Kendrick has received honorary doctorates in divinity from Brunel University and Wycliffe College. In 1987 he helped co-found the March for Jesus, which today is a global phenomenon in which Christians take their faith to the streets in a celebration of Christ. In 1995 Kendrick received a Dove Award for his international work, and he remains an active advocate for Compassion International, which is a Christian child sponsorship organization dedicated to the long-term development of children living in poverty around the world, and also is a contributor to CompassionArt, an organization with the aim of generating income from works of art to assist in the relief of suffering around the planet. Laura de Jong

Betty Pulkingham

1928 - 2019 Person Name: Betty Pulkingham, b. 1928 Topics: The Ministry of Jesus Christ Arranger of "GO TELL EVERYONE" in Singing the Faith Betty Carr Pulkingham was born in 1928 in Burlington, North Carolina. She received a B.S. in Music in 1949 from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and she did graduate studies at the Eastman School of Music. She was Instructor of Music Theory at the University of Texas. In 1951, she married a seminarian Graham Pulkingham. They ministered together in various places in the U.S., England and Scotland; they were founding members of the Community of Celebration, an Anglican religious order. She travelled widely with "The Fisherfolk," an outreach music ministry connected with the Community of Celebration. Betty Pulkingham was a well known composer and arranger. She co-edited and published a number of songbooks and books on worship; and served on the Episcopal Church's Standing Commission on Church Music from 1988-1994. She and her husband returned to Burlington and then she later moved to Austin, Texas to live with family. She died in Austin, May 9, 2019 at the age of 90. Dianne Shapiro, from Obituary (https://www.richandthompson.com/tributes/Betty-Pulkingham) (accessed 6-21-2019)

Tom Colvin

1925 - 2000 Person Name: Tom Colvin, 1925-2000 Topics: The Ministry of Jesus Christ Adapter of "Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love" in Singing the Faith Tom Colvin (b. 1925; d. 2000) was trained as an engineer and worked in that profession in Burma and Singapore from 1945 to 1948. After studying theology at Trinity College, Glasgow University, he was ordained in the Church of Scotland in 1954. He served as missionary in Nyasaland (now Malawi) from 1954 to 1958, in Ghana from 1958 to 1964, and again in Nyasaland from 1964 to 1974. His work there included preaching, education, and community development. After completing his missionary work, Colvin became a minister in the United Reformed Church of England and served an inner-city church in London. He returned to Africa in 1984 as a development consultant to the Zimbabwe Christian Council. Colvin's writings include Christ's Work in Free Africa (1964) and three collections of hymns, many written in collaboration with African Christians–Free to Serve (1966), Leap My Soul (1976), and Fill Us with Your Love (1983). Bert Polman

Karen Lafferty

b. 1948 Person Name: Karen Lafferty, b. 1948 Topics: The Ministry of Jesus Christ Author of "Seek ye first the kingdom of God" in Singing the Faith

William John Hall

1793 - 1861 Person Name: William John Hall Topics: The Ministry of Jesus Christ Author (vv. 2, 4) of "Blest are the pure in heart" in Singing the Faith Hall, William John, M.A., was born in London, Dec. 31, 1793, and graduated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Taking Holy Orders, he held several important appointments, including a Minor Canonry in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, 1826; Priest in Ordinary of H.M. Chapel Royal, St. James's, 1829, and the Vicarage of Tottenham, Middlesex, 1851. He died at Tottenham, Dec. 16, 1861. He published various Sermons, a volume of Prayers for the Use of Families; and a valuable treatise on Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead. He is known to hymnology as the editor of Psalms and Hymns adapted to the Services of the Church of England, London, 1836, commonly known as the Mitre Hymn-book, from the impression of a Mitre on the cover. He was assisted in this work by E. Osier (q.v.) and others, who supplied original compositions. Many of the hymns were previously printed in the Christian Remembrancer, of which he was sometime the editor, and then the editor and sole proprietor. The Mitre Hymn-Book, issued in 1836, with a dedication to Bishop Blomfield, attained to a circulation of four million copies. It introduced numerous hymns to modern collections, and had a marked influence on the hymnody of the Church of England. In this Dictionary all notes on hymns specially connected with the Mitre Hymn-book are from Mr. Hall's manuscript, and distinguished as "h. mss." His son, the Rev. William John Hall, M.A. (born March 17, 1830, and educated at Merchant Taylors School, and at Trinity College, Cambridge; Minor Canon in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, and Rector of St. Clement's, Eastcheap, with St. Martin-Orgar, London), is the editor of the New Mitre Hymnal, Adapted to the Services of the Church of England, London, 1875. (Preface, Advent, 1874.) -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)