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Ken Medema

b. 1943 Person Name: Ken Medema, b. 1943 Hymnal Number: 57 Author of "Come, Let Us Reason" in Sing! A New Creation Ken Medema (b. Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1943) is a song writer, composer, recording artist, and story-teller through music. Blind from birth, Ken began playing the piano at age five and studied classical music by reading Braille. He graduated from Grand Rapids Christian High School and studied music therapy at Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan. As a music therapist in both Indiana and New Jersey, he began writing songs for hurting teenagers, an experience that helped to launch a career of writing songs on Christian life that has taken him to venues large and small all over North America and beyond. He responds to what he hears and sees in his heart at particular events, often improvising songs on the spot, offering compassion, honesty and desire for integrity in both worship and life. In 1985 he began Brier Patch Music, which continues to publish his music and recordings, including 26 CDs. Bert Polman

Handt Hanson

b. 1950 Person Name: Handt Hanson, b. 1950 Hymnal Number: 79 Author of "Lord, Let My Heart Be Good Soil" in Sing! A New Creation

Mildred A. Wiant

1898 - 1998 Person Name: Mildred A Wiant, b. 1898 Hymnal Number: 177 Translator of "O Christ, the Great Foundation" in Sing! A New Creation Mildred Kathryn Artz was born in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1898 and attended Ohio Wesleyan University (B.A. 1920). She married Bliss Wiant (2933) and went to Boston. In 1923 the Wiants moved to Peking, China, where Mildred became associate professor of voice at Yenching University. She was instructor of vocal music at Scarritt College (1942-1946; 1951-1962) and at Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1963-1965). Many of her translations appeared in the National Council of Churches booklet of 1969. ----The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993 ============================ Letter from Mildred Bliss to Mary Louise VanDyke (8 January 1987) outlining activity in the 1960s and 1970s is available in the DNAH Archives.

Jeremiah Clarke

1669 - 1707 Person Name: Jeremiah Clarke, 1660-1707 Hymnal Number: 213 Composer of "ST. MAGNUS" in Sing! A New Creation

Herbert Howells

1892 - 1983 Person Name: Herbert Howells, 1892-1983 Hymnal Number: 183 Composer of "MICHAEL" in Sing! A New Creation

Michael Pope

Hymnal Number: 268 Arranger of "HERE I AM, LORD" in Sing! A New Creation

John Weissrock

Hymnal Number: 268 Arranger of "HERE I AM, LORD" in Sing! A New Creation

Verolga Nix

1933 - 2014 Person Name: Verolga Nix, b. 1933 Hymnal Number: 130 Arranger of "SOJOURNER" in Sing! A New Creation Verolga Nix (Apr. 6, 1933-Dec. 9, 2014) Born in Cleveland, Verolga moved with her family at an early age to Philadelphia. She studied for two years at New England Conservatory of Music and then earned a music degree from Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1955. She was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Bennett College in 2000. After retiring from twenty years as a full-time music teacher in Philadelphia public schools she served as minister of music at several churches in Philadelphia, trained and conducted many choirs and served as a seminar leader nationwide. She was a member of Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), National Association of Negro Musicians and the Hymn Society in U.S. and Canada. In 1980 the United Methodist Church asked her to co-edit with J. Jefferson Cleveland the supplemental hymnal Songs of Zion. She published nearly 200 original songs an arrangements. (further details in The Philadelphia Tribune, Dec.19, 2014 obituary). Mary Louise VanDyke

Grayson Warren Brown

b. 1948 Person Name: Grayson Warren Brown, b. 1948 Hymnal Number: 252 Composer of "[Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy Lord]" in Sing! A New Creation Grayson Warren Brown is an internationally known liturgical composer, author, recording artist and speaker.

Joseph Renville

1779 - 1846 Person Name: Joseph R. Renville, 1779-1846 Hymnal Number: 23 Author (refrain) of "Psalm 8" in Sing! A New Creation Joseph R. Renville’s mother was Dakota and his father, French. An explorer, fur trader, and Congregational minister, Renville helped found the Lac qui Parle Mission in Minnesota in 1835. This song, which is also known as the “Dakota Hymn,” was sung by thirty-eight Dakota prisoners of war as they were led to execution at Mankato, Mennesota, on December 26, 1862. This song was first published in the Dakota Indian Hymnal (1916). Sing! A New Creation