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Anders Nyberg

Person Name: Anders Nyberg (b. 1955) Scripture: Matthew 28:19-20 Adapter of "Thuma mina (Send me, Jesus)" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

1921 - 2003 Person Name: James H. Wood Scripture: Matthew 28:19-20 Harmonizer of "BEACH SPRING" in The Presbyterian Hymnal James Wood was born April 14, 1921, in Rochester, Minn. He was a teacher of music and a concert singer, a choral conductor and composer In later life, he published a book of poems titled, "Songs Without Melodies." Dianne Shapiro

Vicente P. Mendoza

1875 - 1955 Person Name: Vicente Mendoza Scripture: Matthew 28:19 Author of "¡Oh Padre, Eterno Dios!" in Himnario Bautista Vicente Mendoza Born: December 24, 1875, Guadalajara, Mexico. Died: 1955, Mexico City, Mexico. Mendoza studied initially under Don Aurelio Ortega. At age of 11 he went to work in a Protestant print shop in Mexico City and helped produce El Evangelista Mexicano (The Mexican Evangelist) for the Methodist Church of the South; he rose to become its director for 17 years. Looking to improve himself, Mendoza entered a night school for workers, but later feeling the call to preach the Gospel, he entered the Presbyterian Seminary in Mexico City. When the seminary closed temporarily, Mendoza entered the Methodist Institute of Puebla, where he finished the course in theology. In 1898 he became a member of the Annual Conference of the Mexican Methodist Church. From 1915 to 1917, he belonged to the Southern Methodist Conference of California. Mendoza worked on several periodicals, including El Mundo Cristiano (The Christian World), El Abogado Cristiano (The Christian Advocate), and El Evangelista Cristiano (The Christian Evangelist). © The Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime.com/tch)

Ronald F. Krisman

Person Name: Ronald F. Krisman, b. 1946 Scripture: Matthew 28:18-20 Translator of "Go to the World (¡Vayan con Dios!)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Paul Leddington Wright

b. 1951 Person Name: Paul Leddington Wright, b. 1951 Scripture: Matthew 28:19-20 Composer of "HURLEY GREEN" in Singing the Faith

William Gardiner

1770 - 1853 Person Name: William Gardiner, 1770-1853 Scripture: Matthew 28 Composer of "FULDA (WALTON)" in Singing the Faith William Gardiner (b. Leicester, England, 1770; d. Leicester, 1853) The son of an English hosiery manufacturer, Gardiner took up his father's trade in addition to writing about music, composing, and editing. Having met Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven on his business travels, Gardiner then proceeded to help popularize their compositions, especially Beethoven's, in England. He recorded his memories of various musicians in Music and Friends (3 volumes, 1838-1853). In the first two volumes of Sacred Melodies (1812, 1815), Gardiner turned melodies from composers such as Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven into hymn tunes in an attempt to rejuvenate the singing of psalms. His work became an important model for American editors like Lowell Mason (see Mason's Boston Handel and Haydn Collection, 1822), and later hymnbook editors often turned to Gardiner as a source of tunes derived from classical music. Bert Polman

Tim Hughes

b. 1977 Scripture: Matthew 28:16-17 Author of "Here I Am to Worship" in Lift Up Your Hearts

Sydney Carter

1915 - 2004 Person Name: Sydney Bertram Carter (1915-2004) Scripture: Matthew 28:20 Author of "And the creed and the colour and the name won't matter" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

John Bacchus Dykes

1823 - 1876 Person Name: John B. Dykes, 1823-1876 Scripture: Matthew 28:20 Arranger of "O QUANTA QUALIA" in Worship and Rejoice As a young child John Bacchus Dykes (b. Kingston-upon-Hull' England, 1823; d. Ticehurst, Sussex, England, 1876) took violin and piano lessons. At the age of ten he became the organist of St. John's in Hull, where his grandfather was vicar. After receiving a classics degree from St. Catherine College, Cambridge, England, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1847. In 1849 he became the precentor and choir director at Durham Cathedral, where he introduced reforms in the choir by insisting on consistent attendance, increasing rehearsals, and initiating music festivals. He served the parish of St. Oswald in Durham from 1862 until the year of his death. To the chagrin of his bishop, Dykes favored the high church practices associated with the Oxford Movement (choir robes, incense, and the like). A number of his three hundred hymn tunes are still respected as durable examples of Victorian hymnody. Most of his tunes were first published in Chope's Congregational Hymn and Tune Book (1857) and in early editions of the famous British hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern. Bert Polman