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Dan Damon

b. 1955 Person Name: Daniel Charles Damon Scripture: Matthew 11:28 Author of "In Every Changing State of Mind" in New Hymns of Hope Daniel Charles Damon (b. 1955) is an internationally published writer of hymn texts and tunes and is Associate Editor of Hymnody for Hope Publishing Company, Carol Stream, Illinois. Damon is also a jazz pianist and has played in many hotels and clubs in the San Francisco Bay area. He holds degrees from Greenville College, Greenville, Illinois (BME, 1977) and Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California (MDiv, 1987). He is an ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church in the San Francisco Bay area and a life member of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Several single-author collections of Damon's hymns have been published: Faith Will Sing (Carol Stream, 1993), The Sound of Welcome (Carol Stream, 1998), To the Thirsty World (Nashville, 2002), Fields of Mercy (Carol Stream, 2007), and Garden of Joy (Carol Stream, 2011). He collaborated with text writer Gracia Grindal in A Treasury of Faith: Lectionary Hymns Series A (Colfax. 2012). Damon's hymns have been included in several major hymnals and supplements. He has also written hymn translations from Vietnamese, Portuguese, and Shona languages, and, with Patrick Matsikenyiri, edited Njalo, A Collection of 16 Hymns in the African Tradition (Nashville, 1996). He has released three recordings of hymns, carols, and traditional songs, and a solo piano recording of jazz standards (available at www.damonstuneshop.com). Damon has presented his work at national conferences of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada and the Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts. He is a contributor to the Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. In 2016, Damon was made a Fellow of the hymn Society, the highest honor The Hymn Society can confer. Dan Damon

James Minchin

Scripture: Matthew 11:28-29 Paraphraser (English) of "Soft the Master's Love Song (Lirih terdengar, lagu kasih yang merdu)" in Sound the Bamboo

C. D. Amstutz

Scripture: Matthew 11:28 Composer of "[Oh! are there any words more sweet than these]" in Pearls of Praise

George W. Torrance

1835 - 1907 Person Name: G. W. Torrance Scripture: Matthew 11:28-30 Composer of "TRUST" in The Presbyterian Book of Praise

C. A. Garratt

Scripture: Matthew 11:28-30 Composer of "FAITH" in The Presbyterian Book of Praise

Francis Duckworth

1862 - 1941 Person Name: Francis Duckworth, 1862-1941 Scripture: Matthew 11:25-30 Composer of "RIMINGTON" in Singing the Faith Born: December 25, 1862, Rimington, Yorkshire, England. Died: August 16, 1941, at his home Swanside in Colne, England. Buried: St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church, Gisburn, Lancashire. His gravestone bears the music of Rimington, and a plaque to his memory was placed above the doorway to the former Methodist Chapel in Stopper Lane, Lancashire. When Duckworth was five years old, his family moved to the village of Stopper Lane, near Rimington. He had to leave school at age 12 to help in the family business. At age 20, he moved to Burnley, Lancashire, to work for a tobacconist cousin. Six years later, he returned to live at Colne, and in 1899 took a grocery business in Market Street, Colne. Duckworth had an early interest in music, but received only three months of formal lessons. Shortly after arriving in Colne, he became deputy organist (later organist) at the Albert Road Methodist Church, serving until 1929. He composed numerous hymn tunes, 18 of them appearing in the Rimington Hymnal. His tune Rimington was sung by a massive congregation of British troops on the Mount of Olives after the surrender of Jerusalem during World War I. --www.hymntime.com/tch

Dianne Marie Zandstra

b. 1952 Person Name: Dianne Zandstra, b. 1952 Scripture: Matthew 11:5 Translator (Spanish, st. 6) of "O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing (Mil voces para celebrar)" in Santo, Santo, Santo

Robert Hawkey Moreton

1844 - 1917 Person Name: Robert Hawkey Moreton, 1844-1917 Scripture: Matthew 11:5 Translator (Portuguese) of "O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing (Mil voces para celebrar)" in Santo, Santo, Santo Robert Hawkey Moreton was born in Argentina (1844-1917) and was instrumental in the founding of the Methodist Church (Mirante Chapel) in Oporto, Portugal.

Antonio Nina

Scripture: Matthew 11:5 Translator (Aymara) of "O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing (Mil voces para celebrar)" in Santo, Santo, Santo

Craig Sellar Lang

1891 - 1971 Person Name: Craig Sellar Lang (1891-1971) Scripture: Matthew 11:2-11 Composer (descant) of "RICHMOND" in Common Praise (1998) Craig S. Lang (b. Hastings, New Zealand, 1891; d. London, England, 1971), was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, England, and earned his D.Mus. at the Royal College of Music in London. Throughout his life he was an organist and a music educator as well as a composer of organ, piano, and choral works. Lang was also music editor of The Public School Hymn Book (1949). He named many of his hymn tunes after Cornish villages. Bert Polman

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