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Mortimer Arias

1924 - 2016 Scripture: Psalm 139 Author of "En medió de la vida" in El Himnario Bolivia

Antonio Auza

1915 - 1981 Scripture: Psalm 139 Composer of "BOLIVIANO" in El Himnario

Homero R. Perera

Person Name: Homero Perera Scripture: Psalm 139 Arranger of "BOLIVIANO" in El Himnario Uruguay-Argentina

b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell (b. 1949) Scripture: Psalm 139:5 Author of "Today I awake and God is before me" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) 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

Mark A. Miller

Scripture: Psalm 139 Composer of "HIXON" in Worship and Song

Paul Wigmore

b. 1925 Person Name: Paul Wigmore, b. 1925 Scripture: Psalm 139 Author of "Psalm 139: O Lord, My God" in Sing! A New Creation Born 1925, London. Schools in Harrow, Bushey Heath and Barnstaple (N Devon). Many occupations between the ages of 14 and 42: apprentice mechanical engineer, shop assistant, junior clerk, photo lab trainee, National Service RAF photographer in India, Burma and UK, Kodak medical radiographer and haematology lab technician, then technical author. Publications and PR manager with air/sea lifesaving equipment manufacturer. PRO for the Christian Medical College and Brown Memorial Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab. Freelance writer, graphic designer and photographer in Cambridge. Advertising editor and art director with Kodak UK from 1967 to early retirement in 1985. Wrote first verse at age ten in Port Isaac, Cornwall, getting as far as: Clouds race like tattered rags across Port Isaac Bay, ... and then stopping. During brief acquaintance with Penelope and John Betjeman from August 1982 until John's death in July, 1984, encouraged by the poet to keep writing verse. Two collections of light verse published in 1988 and 1990. First attempt at a hymn text written ('ÄòMay we, O Holy Spirit, bear your fruit'Äô) at the request of Jubilate Hymns Limited in compilation of Hymns for Today's Church. Something approaching 100 hymn texts now published, plus a couple of cantatas and one opera. The Jubilate Group

Marisol Díaz

Scripture: Psalm 139 Author of "Oh Señor, tú me has examinado [Oh, Lord God, You Have Searched Me]" in Psalms for All Seasons

Ken Canedo

Person Name: Ken Canedo, b. 1953 Scripture: Psalm 139:1-4 Author of "Fly Like a Bird" in Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.)

Tom Kendzia

Person Name: Tom Kendzia, b. 1954 Scripture: Psalm 139:1-4 Author of "Endless Is Your Love" in Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.)

George Lockwood

b. 1946 Scripture: Psalm 139 Translator of "Dios de la vida" in El Himnario Rev. George Lockwood was born in 1946 and has been a missionary to Costa Rica. He has pastored Spanish-speaking congregations in both Arizona and California and served on the editorial committee for the Methodist hymnal supplement Celebremos II. In addition, Lockwood has traveled throughout Central and South America interviewing church musicians and gathering new hymns from both Spanish and Portuguese cultures which he then presents at conferences and workshops. The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993