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Ray Simpson

Author of "A mother dreamed her child unborn" in Celtic Hymn Book

Elizabeth Stroud Campbell

Author of "God, Be With Us Who Watch and Wait" in Discipleship Ministries Collection

Arranger of "THE WATER IS WIDE" in Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship B.A., Western Michigan University (2003); M.A., The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (2011); M.L.I.S, University of Kentucky (2017). Digital Archivist at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Editor of The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of Isaac Watts (2016), Spurgeon's Own Hymn Book (2019), Amazing Love! How Can It Be: Studies on Hymns by Charles Wesley (2020), and Hymns & Devotions for Daily Worship (2024). Volunteer editor for Hymnary.org; contributor to the Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology; founder and editor of Hymnology Archive (hymnologyarchive.com).

Robert J. Batastini

b. 1942 Person Name: Robert J. Batastini, b. 1942 Arranger of "O WALY WALY" in Singing Our Faith Robert J. Batastini is the retired vice president and senior editor of GIA Publications, Inc., Chicago. Bob has over fifty-five years of service in pastoral music ministry, having served several parishes in the Archdiocese of Chicago and one in the Diocese of Joliet. He served as executive editor and project director for the Worship hymnals (three editions), Gather hymnals (three editions), Catholic Community Hymnal, and as executive editor of RitualSong. In 1993 he became the first recipient of the Father Lawrence Heimann Citation for lifetime contribution to church music and liturgy in the U.S., awarded by St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, Indiana, and was named "Pastoral Musician of the Year-2000" by the National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM). At its 2006 conference, he was named a Fellow of the Hymn society in the United States and Canada. In his retirement he is active in the music ministry of St. Francis de Sales Parish, Holland, MI. Nancy Naber, from www.giamusic.com/bios/