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Author: Keith Getty; Stuart Townend Meter: 10.8.10.8.12.14 Appears in 11 hymnals Topics: Disasters; Disasters First Line: Oh, to see the dawn of the darkest day Scripture: Luke 23:26-49 Used With Tune: POWER OF THE CROSS

The Challenge of Migration

Author: Andrew Pratt Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Disasters First Line: Idyllic beaches break the waves Used With Tune: KINGSFOLD

Touch the Earth Lightly

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 23 hymnals Topics: Disasters; Disasters First Line: Touch the earth lightly, use the earth gently Lyrics: 1 Touch the earth lightly, use the earth gently, nourish the life of the world in our care: gift of great wonder, ours to surrender, trust for the children tomorrow will bear. 2 We who endanger, who create hunger, agents of death for all creatures that live, we who would foster clouds of disaster, God of our planet, forestall and forgive! 3 Let there be greening, birth from the burning, water that blesses and air that is sweet, health in God's garden, hope in God's children, regeneration that peace will complete. 4 God of all living, God of all loving, God of the seedling, the snow, and the sun, teach us, deflect us, Christ, reconnect us, using us gently and making us one. Scripture: Genesis 1:26-30 Used With Tune: AI HU

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TALLIS' CANON

Appears in 483 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Thomas Tallis, 1505-1585 Topics: In Time of War/Disaster Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 11711 22343 14433 Used With Text: O God of Love, O King of Peace

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Touch the Earth Lightly

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Hymnal: Worship and Song #3129 (2011) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Topics: Disasters; Disasters First Line: Touch the earth lightly, use the earth gently Lyrics: 1 Touch the earth lightly, use the earth gently, nourish the life of the world in our care: gift of great wonder, ours to surrender, trust for the children tomorrow will bear. 2 We who endanger, who create hunger, agents of death for all creatures that live, we who would foster clouds of disaster, God of our planet, forestall and forgive! 3 Let there be greening, birth from the burning, water that blesses and air that is sweet, health in God's garden, hope in God's children, regeneration that peace will complete. 4 God of all living, God of all loving, God of the seedling, the snow, and the sun, teach us, deflect us, Christ, reconnect us, using us gently and making us one. Scripture: Genesis 1:26-30 Languages: English Tune Title: AI HU

The Power of the Cross

Author: Keith Getty; Stuart Townend Hymnal: Worship and Song #3085 (2011) Meter: 10.8.10.8.12.14 Topics: Disasters; Disasters First Line: Oh, to see the dawn of the darkest day Scripture: Luke 23:26-49 Languages: English Tune Title: POWER OF THE CROSS

The Lord Has Promised Good to Us

Author: Mary R. Bittner Hymnal: Water from the Rock #p.24 (2004) Topics: Hope Response to disasters and violence First Line: The Lord has promised good to us,

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Thomas Tallis

1505 - 1585 Person Name: Thomas Tallis, 1505-1585 Topics: In Time of War/Disaster Composer of "TALLIS' CANON" in Catholic Book of Worship III Thomas Tallis (b. Leicestershire [?], England, c. 1505; d. Greenwich, Kent, England 1585) was one of the few Tudor musicians who served during the reigns of Henry VIII: Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth I and managed to remain in the good favor of both Catholic and Protestant monarchs. He was court organist and composer from 1543 until his death, composing music for Roman Catholic masses and Anglican liturgies (depending on the monarch). With William Byrd, Tallis also enjoyed a long-term monopoly on music printing. Prior to his court connections Tallis had served at Waltham Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral. He composed mostly church music, including Latin motets, English anthems, settings of the liturgy, magnificats, and two sets of lamentations. His most extensive contrapuntal work was the choral composition, "Spem in alium," a work in forty parts for eight five-voice choirs. He also provided nine modal psalm tunes for Matthew Parker's Psalter (c. 1561). Bert Polman

Charles Albert Tindley

1851 - 1933 Person Name: Charles A.Tindley Topics: Disaster Author of "When the Storms of Life Are Raging" in Voices Together Charles Albert Tindley was born in Berlin, Maryland, July 7, 1851; son of Charles and Hester Tindley. His father was a slave, and his mother was free. Hester died when he was very young; he was taken in my his mother’s sister Caroline Miller Robbins in order to keep his freedom. It seems that he was expected to work to help the family. In his Book of Sermons (1932), he speaks of being “hired out” as a young boy, “wherever father could place me.” He married Daisy Henry when he was seventeen. Together they had eight children, some of whom would later assist him with the publication of his hymns. Tindley was largely self-taught throughout his lifetime. He learned to read mostly on his own. After he and Daisy moved to Philadelphia in 1875, he took correspondence courses toward becoming a Methodist minister. He did this while working as a sexton (building caretaker) for the East Bainbridge Street Church. Beginning in 1885, he was appointed by the local bishop to serve two or three-year terms at a series of churches, until coming full circle to become pastor at East Bainbridge in 1902. Under his leadership, the church grew rapidly. They relocated in 1904 to the East Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, then again in 1924 to the new Tindley Temple, where the membership roll blossomed to about ten thousand. Tindley was known for being a captivating preacher, and for also taking an active role in the betterment of the people in his community. His songs were an outgrowth of his preaching ministry, often introduced during his sermons. Tindley was able to draw people of multiple races to his church ministry; likewise, his songs have been adopted and proliferated by white and black churches alike. The songs of Charles Tindley were published cumulatively in two editions of Soul Echoes (1905, 1909) and six editions of New Songs of Paradise (1916-1941). His wife Daisy died in 1924, before the completion of the Tindley Temple. He remarried in 1927 to Jenny Cotton. Charles A. Tindley died July 26, 1933.

Stuart Townend

Topics: Disasters; Disasters Author of "The Power of the Cross" in Worship and Song Stuart Townend (b. 1963) grew up in West Yorkshire, England, the youngest son of an Anglican vicar. He started learning piano at a young age, and began writing music at age 22. He has produced albums for Keith Routledge and Vinesong, among many others, and has also released eight solo albums to date. Some of his better-known songs include “How Deep the Father’s Love,” “The King of Love,” and “The Power of the Cross.” He continues to work closely with friends Keith and Kristyn Getty, and is currently a worship leader in Church of Christ the King in Brighton, where he lives with wife Caroline, and children Joseph, Emma and Eden. Laura de Jong

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