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Michael Baughen

b. 1930 Person Name: Michael Baughen (b. 1930) Scripture: Galatians 2:20 Composer of "LORD OF THE YEARS" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

David Iliff

Person Name: David Iliff (b. 1939) Scripture: Galatians 2:20 Arranger of "LORD OF THE YEARS" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

1885 - 1947 Scripture: Galatians 2:20 Author of "Mi Amor Y Vida" in Himnos de Gloria Howard Whittemore Cragin, Pentecostal missionary in Peru. Dianne Shapiro Brother of J. Paul Cragin (Melodias Evangélicas: Nuevo Cantos y Coros de Despertamiento Cristiano, #181).

John L. Bell

b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell (1949-) Scripture: Galatians 2:15-21 Author of "God the Creator" in Common Praise (1998) 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

Joseph Parry

1841 - 1903 Scripture: Galatians 2:20 Composer of "ABERYSTWYTH" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Joseph Parry (b. Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1841; d. Penarth, Glamorganshire, 1903) was born into a poor but musical family. Although he showed musical gifts at an early age, he was sent to work in the puddling furnaces of a steel mill at the age of nine. His family immigrated to a Welsh settlement in Danville, Pennsylvania in 1854, where Parry later started a music school. He traveled in the United States and in Wales, performing, studying, and composing music, and he won several Eisteddfodau (singing competition) prizes. Parry studied at the Royal Academy of Music and at Cambridge, where part of his tuition was paid by interested community people who were eager to encourage his talent. From 1873 to 1879 he was professor of music at the Welsh University College in Aberystwyth. After establishing private schools of music in Aberystwyth and in Swan sea, he was lecturer and professor of music at the University College of South Wales in Cardiff (1888-1903). Parry composed oratorios, cantatas, an opera, orchestral and chamber music, as well as some four hundred hymn tunes. Bert Polman

Rowland Hugh Prichard

1811 - 1887 Person Name: Rowland H. Prichard Scripture: Galatians 2:13 Composer of "HYFRYDOL" in Hymns for the Living Church Rowland H. Prichard (sometimes spelled Pritchard) (b. Graienyn, near Bala, Merionetshire, Wales, 1811; d. Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, 1887) was a textile worker and an amateur musician. He had a good singing voice and was appointed precentor in Graienyn. Many of his tunes were published in Welsh periodicals. In 1880 Prichard became a loom tender's assistant at the Welsh Flannel Manufacturing Company in Holywell. Bert Polman

Rufus H. McDaniel

1850 - 1940 Scripture: Galatians 2:20 Author of "Since Jesus Came into My Heart" in Baptist Hymnal 1991 Rufus H. McDaniel was ordained in the Christian church in 1873. He found much joy in church music. He began writing hymns in the 1880's. He wrote, "I feel in my soul that God has something for me to do in brightening the experience of struggling souls. My chief desire is to be a blessing, if possible, to my fellow-men through these hymns and thereby glorify God in the name of his dear son 'whose I am and whom I serve.'" Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

James H. Burke

1858 - 1901 Person Name: J. H. Burke Scripture: Galatians 2:20 Composer of "[Not I, but Christ, be honored, loved]" in Church Hymns and Gospel Songs James H Burke, 1855-1901, Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1873. In Chicago, he attended the Moody Church and became a member. He taught Sunday school and started singing groups at the YMCA. He engaged in evangelistic work with D. L. Moody, Daniel Whittle, and others, going to Scotland and Britain for crusade work there for a year and a half. He was also music minister at the New York Gospel Tacernacle for a year in 1891. He traveled with Scottish evangelist, John McNeill for or year or so as well. John Perry

Maud Frazer Jackson

1873 - 1950 Person Name: Maud Frazer Scripture: Galatians 2:20 Author of "He Wants a Poor Sinner Like Me" in Alexander's Hymns No. 3 Maud Frazer Jackson USA 1873-1950. It is surmised she lived in PA and/or NJ. She was a religious author, poet, and music compiler, who published her collections of music, including 400 hymns called “Hymns about forgiveness!”, “Wayside Song” (1922), and “Starlight & lamplight” (1928). Her poems were sometimes furnished to newspapers around the country and printed. John Perry

Joseph P. Holbrook

1822 - 1888 Scripture: Galatians 2:20 Composer of "REFUGE" in Church Hymnal, Mennonite Joseph P. Holbrook was a tune writer in the parlor music style, and used the popular melodies of Mason and Hastings, Bradbury and Root, Greatorex and Kingsley in his collections. He furnished settings for the choir hymns in Songs for the Sanctuary in his Quartet and chorus Choir (New York, 1871, and sought more recogniation than had been given him in a hymnal of his own, Worship in Song (New York, 1880); a book that found no welcome. from The English hymn: its development and use in worship By Louis FitzGerald Benson