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Joyce Borger

Scripture: Genesis 6:9 Arranger of "[The Lord told Noah, there's gonna be a floody, floody]" in Sing With Me

Eugene B. Navias

Scripture: Genesis 6-8 Arranger of "[The Lord said to Noah, there's gonna be a floody, floody]" in Worship in Song

Noel Rawsthorne

b. 1929 Person Name: Noel Rawsthorne Scripture: Genesis 6:4 Arranger of "[The Lord said to Noah, There's gonna be a floody, floody]" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New

b. 1937 Person Name: Dave Dargie Scripture: Genesis 6:9 Arranger of "[Sizohambe naye]" in More Voices A Roman Catholic priest for many years, Fr. Dargie observed that many priests resorted to using European or North American melodies they knew and ignored the rich heritage of South African music, especially the music of the Xhosa and Zulu peoples. For example, the venerable Latin chant “Tantum Ergo Sacramentum” (a communion hymn attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas), was sung in one parish to “My Darling Clementine”! For Fr. Dargie, a white South African of Scots-Irish lineage, part of the liberation of black South Africans from the political oppression of apartheid was to encourage them to sing their Christian faith with their own music rather than in the musical idioms of their colonial oppressors. In the decades immediately following the reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), Fr. Dargie was among many who encouraged Africans to find their own voice in congregational singing. He sponsored workshops throughout southern Africa with indigenous musicians, giving them specific texts from the Mass and asking them to compose music to fit the melodic contour and rhythmic structure of the words. Since most African languages are tonal, a melodic shape emerges directly from speaking the text. Stephen Molefe was among the first South African musicians that Fr. Dargie worked with in these workshops. --www.gbod.org/

Anita Wagoner

Scripture: Genesis 6:9 Author of "Never Again, Noah!" in Sing With Me

Jacquelyn Negus

Scripture: Genesis 6 Author (st. 1, 4-6) of "True Story" in Sing With Me

Jon Negus

Scripture: Genesis 6 Author (st. 1, 4-6) of "True Story" in Sing With Me

Jessie Schut

b. 1948 Scripture: Genesis 6 Author (st. 2-3) of "True Story" in Sing With Me

J. H. Weber

Person Name: J. H. W. Scripture: Genesis 6:3 Author of "Decide To-night" in The Search Light

Mary Nelson Keithahn

b. 1934 Scripture: Genesis 6:5-7 Author of "For Your Wise, Creating Spirit" in Faith That Lets Us Sing Mary Nelson Keithahn, a retired United Church of Christ ordained pastor and church educator, has been a curriculum writer-editor, journalist, and lyricist for musical dramas and anthems. She still works out of her home in Rapid City, South Dakota, as a free-lance writer. In 2016 she published Elfie: Adventures on the Midwest Frontier, a chapter book for children, and Embracing the Light: Reflectioins on God’s Holy Word, a collection of meditations for individual or small group use. Augsburg Fortress also published Sing the Stories of God’s NEW People, the third in a trilogy of Bible story-based collections of songs for young children, written with her longtime colleague, John D. Horman. The two have written over a hundred hymns together, some of which are included in these hymnals and supplements: Community of Christ Sings, God’s Mission, God’s Song, Hymns of Heritage and Hope, Lift Up Your Hearts, Sing Justice! Do Justice, Sing the Faith, Singing Our Savior’s Story, Singing the New Testament, The Faith We Sing, Upper Room Worshipbook, Voices Found, Voices United, and Worship and Song. They have also published four collections of their hymns: Come Away with Me and Time Now to Gather (Abingdon, 1998), The Song Lingers On (Zimbel, 2003), and Faith That Lets Us Sing (Wayne Leupold Editions, 2017). Mary is a Life Member and former board member of Choristers Guild and a Life Member of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. She is also a member of ASCAP. In 2006 she received a Distinguished Achievement Award from her alma mater, Carleton College in Northfield, MN, in recognition of her work in composing text for religious music. Mary was married to the Rev. Richard K. Keithahn, a U.C.C. pastor, and widowed in 1986. She has three children, eight grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. --mnk