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Jillian M. Bray

Person Name: Jilllian Bray Arranger of "BUNESSAN" in Alleluia Aotearoa

b. 1939 Author of "Blest Be God Who Forever Lives" in Sound the Bamboo Salvador T Martinez, Ph.D., (b. Manila, 22 June 1939) is a Filipino theologian and musician. He was professor of philosophy and religion and dean at Silliman University in Dumaguete City, the Philippines, and professor at McGilvary College of Divinity at Payap University, in Chiang Mai, Thailand He has been executive secretary at the Christian Conference of Asia and missionary of the Common Global Ministries Board of the United Church of Christ and Disciples of Christ. He has written other hymns: Blest be God, In the Lands of Asia, God of Asia. His hymns appear in Gather,New Century Hymnal, Lift Up Your Hearts, Sound the Bamboo, and Church Hymnal. He lives in Banning, California, USA with his wife Norma. (email sent to Hymnary)

George J. Kurzenknabe

Person Name: Geo. J. Kurzenknabe Composer of "[Though thy mercies o'er me fall]" in Fair as the Morning. Hymns and Tunes for Praise in the Sunday-School

Phillip W. Sanders

b. 1959 Author of "Praise and Adore Him" in Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition)

Gregorio T. Samoy

b. 1900 Author of "An Ardent Prayer" in Hymns from the Four Winds

Stanley M. Wiersma

1930 - 1986 Person Name: Stanley Wiersma, 1930-1986 Author of "Be Merciful, Be Merciful, O God" in Psalms for All Seasons Pseudonym: Sietze Buning ********** Stanley Marvin Wiersma (b. Orange City, IA, 1930; d. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1986) was a poet and professor of English at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, from 1959 until his sudden death in 1986. He attended Calvin as an undergraduate and received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1959. His love for the Genevan psalms is reflected in the two books of poetry for which he is most widely known: Purpaleanie and Other Permutations (1978) and Style and Class (1982), both written under the pseudonym Sietze Buning. He also wrote More Than the Ear Discovers: God in the Plays of Christopher Fry and translated many Dutch poems and hymn texts into English, including the children's hymns published in All Will Be New (1982). Bert Polman