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Phil Lawson Johnston

Person Name: Philip Lawson-Johnston Scripture: Hebrews 2:9 Author of "Jesus is the name we honour" in Singing the Faith

1914 - 2002 Scripture: Hebrews 2:17 Author of "Jesus Knows and Cares" in Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) Born: March 20, 1914, Booneville, Arkansas. Died: June 14, 2002, Dallas, Texas. Buried: Hillcrest Cemetery, Temple, Texas. Epps lived in Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1923-45. He studied at West Texas University in Canyon, Texas, and the Hartford School of Music in Arkansas. He studied voice under W. W. Combs, and was associated with L. O. Sanderson in Music Normals starting in 1945. He taught in music camps at Lubbock Christian College and the Firm Foundation Music Camp; at the Camp Hensel Music School at Travis Peak, Texas, for over 25 years, and directed singing in meetings with Gospel preachers such as Jimmy Allen, Mack Lyon, George Benson, John Bannister, and Willard Collins. In 1945, he began serving as a minister, educational director and song leader in Waxahachie, Texas. He went on to serve for over 20 years at churches in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana, eventually moving to Lake Charles, Louisiana; Temple, Texas, around 1982; and Lewisville, Texas, in 2001. --www.hymntime.com/tch

Norma De Waal Malefyt

Person Name: Norma de Waal Malefyt Scripture: Hebrews 2:11 Arranger of "KUM BA YAH" in Songs for Life Norma de Waal Malefyt is Resource Development Specialist in Congregational Song for the Worship Institute. Her responsibilities include developing training resources and curriculum for the Worship Institute web site, publication series, and training events. She serves as a presenter at events sponsored by the Worship Institute, including academic courses, the annual Calvin Symposium on Worship, and other training events. Norma enjoys participating in worship especially in the areas of worship planning and music leadership and in developing those gifts in others. She graduated from Calvin College with degrees in music education and organ performance. She returns to the college setting after serving in parish music ministry. --worship.calvin.edu/

Jan Bender

1909 - 1994 Person Name: Jan O. Bender, 1909-94 Scripture: Hebrews 2:14-15 Arranger of "WITTENBERG NEW" in Lutheran Service Book Bender, Jan Oskar was born on February 3, 1909 in Haarlem, Netherlands. He moved with his mother to Lubeck Germany, to study organ and conducting and theory. He became an organist at St. Gertrude in Lubeck. Jan served in the military during World War II. After the war he served as a visiting professor and organist at Valparaiso University in Indiana, and the University of Denver. In 1960 he emigrated to the United States and settled in Seward, Nebraska, where he was a teacher. He also taught at Concordia Teachers College and Wittenberg University in Springfield Ohio. In 1976 he retired to Hanerau, Germany. In 1979 he served as visiting professor at Valparaiso University, in 1979-1981 at Gustavus Adolphus College in St Peter Minnesota, and in 1982 at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina. Bender was very involved with hymnody. Many of his compositions use chorale tunes (and texts), both in cantatas and choral settings. He died on December 29, 1994 in Hanerau, Germany. He died on December 29, 1994 in Hanerau, Germany Holstein. NN, Hymnary. Source: http://composers-classical-music.com/b/BenderJan.htm

Cyril Knight

1908 - 1982 Person Name: Cyril Knight, 1908-1982 Scripture: Hebrews 2:10-18 Composer of "MEYRICK PARK" in Common Praise (1998)

Ruth Coleman

b. 1953 Person Name: Ruth Coleman, b. 1953 Scripture: Hebrews 2:10-13 Arranger of "[Beneath the cross of Jesus]" in Santo, Santo, Santo

Bryan Gerlach

b. 1954 Person Name: Bryan Gerlach, b. 1954 Scripture: Hebrews 2:14-15 Arranger of "JERUSALEM" in Christian Worship

Melchizedek M. Solis

b. 1928 Scripture: Hebrews 2:8-13 Author of "In great thanksgiving" in Together in Song

Mutya Lopez Solis

b. 1930 Scripture: Hebrews 2:8-13 Composer of "MALATE" in Together in Song

Timothy Dudley-Smith

1926 - 2024 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith, 1926- Scripture: Hebrews 2:10-18 Author of "Lord, Who Left the Highest Heaven" in Common Praise (1998) 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