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Berta Westrup de Velasco

1888 - 1959 Scripture: Proverbs 31:10-31 Translator of "Las mujeres cristianas" in Celebremos Su Gloria Berta Westrup de Velasco was a respected educator in San Simón, Mexico. A street in Monterrey was named after her. Dianne Shapiro from Celebremos su Gloria (Colombia/Illinois: Libros Alianza/Celebration), 1992

Cristóbal E. Morales

1898 - 1981 Scripture: Proverbs 31:29 Author of "A mi madre" in Celebremos Su Gloria

George C. Stebbins

1846 - 1945 Scripture: Proverbs 31:10-31 Composer of "WHAT MUST IT BE" in Celebremos Su Gloria Stebbins studied music in Buffalo and Rochester, New York, then became a singing teacher. Around 1869, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, to join the Lyon and Healy Music Company. He also became the music director at the First Baptist Church in Chicago. It was in Chicago that he met the leaders in the Gospel music field, such as George Root, Philip Bliss, & Ira Sankey. At age 28, Stebbins moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he became music director at the Claredon Street Baptist Church; the pastor there was Adoniram Gordon. Two years later, Stebbins became music director at Tremont Temple in Boston. Shortly thereafter, he became involved in evangelism campaigns with Moody and others. Around 1900, Stebbins spent a year as an evangelist in India, Egypt, Italy, Palestine, France and England. (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Richard Hainsworth

Scripture: Proverbs 31:29 Composer of "HAINSWORTH" in Celebremos Su Gloria Pseudonymn. See also Lillenas, Haldor, 1885-1959

Jon Mohr

Person Name: Jon Mohr, 1955- Scripture: Proverbs 31:28 Author of "Find Us Faithful" in Worship and Rejoice

Timothy Dudley-Smith

b. 1926 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Scripture: Proverbs 31:28 Author of "Our Father God in heaven" in Ancient and Modern Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

A. F. Myers

Person Name: A. F. M. Scripture: Proverbs 31:28 Author of ""My Mother's Prayer"" in The Search Light Augustus (Gus) Franklin Myers USA 1850-1902. Born at Ashland, OH, he was a music composer and publisher. He may have taught music, as his title of ‘Professor’, is noted by one source. His song books include: “The life line”, “The search light” (1894), “The seed sower” (1897). He wrote many lyrics and tunes. He died at Toledo, OH. John Perry

Ray M. Cook

Scripture: Proverbs 31 Author of "A Woman of Valor" in Union Songster

Keith Getty

b. 1974 Scripture: Proverbs 31:9 Author of "Imagine" in Lift Up Your Hearts Keith Getty (b. December 16, 1974) is a world-renowned modern hymn writer. Keith developed a passion for writing good songs for the church in his twenties, and began writing for his small Baptist church. He writes and performs with his wife, Kristyn and they regularly tour the United States and the United Kingdom. (Also known as Julian Keith Getty) Laura de Jong

Kristyn Getty

Scripture: Proverbs 31:9 Author of "Imagine" in Lift Up Your Hearts Kristyn Getty (b. May 22, 1980) is a world-renowned modern hymn writer. Kristyn studied English Literature at Queen’s University of Belfast. She writes and performs with her husband, Keith Getty, and they regularly tour the United States and the United Kingdom. Laura de Jong