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Alexander Robert Reinagle

1799 - 1877 Person Name: Alexander R. Reinagle, 1799-1877 Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:12-13 Composer of "ST. PETER" in Worship and Rejoice Alexander Robert Reinagle United Kingdom 1799-1877. Born at Brighton, Sussex, England, gf Austrian descent, he came from a family of musicians, studying music with his father (a cellist), then with Raynor Taylor in Edinburgh, Scotland. Reinagle became a well-known organ teacher. He became organist at St Peter’s Church, Oxford (1823-1853). He was also a theatre musician. He wrote Teaching manuals for stringed instruments as well. He also compiled books of hymn tunes, one in 1830: “Psalm tunes for the voice and the pianoforte”, the other in 1840: “A collection of Psalm and hymn tunes”. He also composed waltzes. In 1846 he married Caroline Orger, a pianist, composer, and writer in her own right. No information found regarding children. In the 1860s he was active in Oxford music-making and worked with organist, John Stainer, then organist at Magdalen College. Reinagle also composed a piano sonata and some church music. At retirement he moved to Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England. He died at Kidlington. John Perry

Sydney Carter

1915 - 2004 Person Name: Sydney Bertram Carter (1915-2004) Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:13 Author of "And the creed and the colour and the name won't matter" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

Paul Leddington Wright

b. 1951 Person Name: Paul Leddington Wright, b. 1951 Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:13 Arranger of "NEIGHBOUR" in Singing the Faith

David Mansell

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:3 Author of "Jesus is Lord, Jesus is Lord!" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.)

Jeffrey Honoré

Person Name: Jeffrey Honoré Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 Arranger of "SOMOS EL CUERPO DE CRISTO" in Glory to God

Edward Elgar

Person Name: Edward Elgar, 1857-1934 Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:12-13 Composer of "DRAKE'S BROUGHTON" in Together in Song

Michael Forster

b. 1946 Person Name: Michael Forster, b. 1946 Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:9-11 Author of "Come, Holy Spirit, come!" in Common Praise

Wilson Niwagila

b. 1940 Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:4-6 Author of "Gracious Spirit, Heed Our Pleading" in With One Voice Wilson Niwagila was born in Bukoba, Tanzania, and later studied theology in Tanzania, the United States, and Germany. He became a Lutheran parish pastor in several congregations in Tanzania and Germany. In Tanzania, he was the Lutheran secretary for Christian Education, the director of the Evangelical Academy, and provost of Makumira University College. He resided in Germany for a period as the Executive Secretary for Evangelism of the United Evangelical Mission for Germany, Asia, and Africa. Upon his return to Tanzania, he served as a member of the Task-Force for the establishment of the Bishop Josiah Kibira University College of the Tumaini University in the Kagera Region-Tanzania. --Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania

Howard S. Olson

1922 - 2010 Person Name: Howard S. Olson, b. 1922 Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:4-6 Translator of "Gracious Spirit, Heed Our Pleading" in With One Voice Howard Olson (b. 1922; d. 2010), longtime missionary/teacher in African, compiled a number of African songs in Set Free (Augsburg Fortress, 1993). Many were folk tunes to which Christian Swahili texts were later added. He wrote in the introduction: “In their original form these tunes wee sung with uninhibited improvisation. Consequently the form in which these songs appear in this book represents only one of several possibilities.” Sing! A New Creation