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Author: Jim Strathdee Meter: Irregular Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: We have this ministry and we are not ... Topics: The Church at Worship Profession of Faith, Ordination, Commissioning, Installation; Commissioning; Confirmation; Ordination; Proper 9 Year A; Proper 26 Year A; Proper 4 Year B; Proper 8 Year B Used With Tune: MINISTRY

Renew Thy Church, Her Ministries

Author: Kenneth L. Cober Meter: 10.6.10.6.8.8.8.6 Appears in 26 hymnals First Line: Renew Thy church, her ministries restore Lyrics: your church, her ministries restore: Both ... Topics: Renewal of the Church; Scriptures Scripture: Habakkuk 3:2 Used With Tune: ALL IS WELL

Take My Life and Let It Be

Author: Frances Ridley Havergal Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 1,190 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Take my life and let it be consecrated, all for thee; take my moments and my days; let them flow in ceaseless praise. 2 Take my hands, and let them move at the impulse of thy love, take my feet, and let them be swift and purposeful for thee. 3 Take my ... Topics: Ministry Used With Tune: MOZART

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ST. DROSTANE

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 111 hymnals Tune Person: John Bacchus Dykes Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 51512 32154 3222 Used With Text: Ride On, Ride On in Majesty!

MINISTRY (Strathdee)

Meter: Irregular Appears in 2 hymnals Tune Person: Jim Strathdee Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51234 54321 36551

HERE I AM TO WORSHIP

Meter: Irregular Appears in 19 hymnals Tune Person: Tim Hughes Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 33422 34432 11334 Used With Text: Here I Am to Worship

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We Have This Ministry

Author: Jim Strathdee Hymnal: Voices United #510 (1996) Meter: Irregular Lyrics: We have this ministry and we are not ... Topics: The Church at Worship Profession of Faith, Ordination, Commissioning, Installation; Commissioning; Confirmation; Ordination; Proper 9 Year A; Proper 26 Year A; Proper 4 Year B; Proper 8 Year B Tune Title: MINISTRY

We have this ministry

Author: Jim Strathdee, 1941- Hymnal: The Book of Praise #590 (1997) First Line: We have this ministry and we are not discouraged Lyrics: We have this ministry and we are not ... Topics: Church; Communication / Language; Compassion; Gentleness; Jesus Christ Name of; Sacraments and Ordinances Ordination / Commissioning; Servant / Service; Stewardship Scripture: Matthew 11:29 Languages: English Tune Title: MINISTRY

Renew Thy Church, Her Ministries Restore

Author: Kenneth L. Cober, 1902-1993 Hymnal: One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism #581 (2018) Lyrics: Thy church, her ministries restore: Both ... Topics: Church Ministers/ministry Scripture: 1 Kings 19:12 Languages: English Tune Title: ALL IS WELL

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Jim Strathdee

b. 1941 Author of "We Have This Ministry" in Voices United Many of the songs of Jim Strathdee (b. 1941) represent an important part of this genre. Mr. Strathdee and his wife, Jean, are performing artists whose concerts reach thousands of people each year. They say their songs "are a musical offering of hope and encouragement for all people, bringing a message of compassion, justice and healing." The Strathdees' ministry was centered for many years at St. Mark's United Methodist Church in Sacramento, Calif., where they were directors of music. Since August 2006 they have been "in ministry to the church-at-large." The congregational nature of many of their songs springs from their connection with this church. Their concert attendees are invited to participate as singers, not just observers. This "sing-along" quality is another important gift from those who compose and perform in the folk stream. "What does the Lord require of you?" is a Scripture song based on Micah 6:8. The three interlocking melodies form a quodlibet on the text. This is an unassuming song that may be easily learned by a gathering, giving each of three vocal sections its own part. When singing this song, the congregation feels like a choir. As each section learns its part, they not only hear a beautiful harmony emerge, but also internalize the meaning of this text -- a verse that describes the ethical responsibility of the follower of God. The Strathdees "treasure the musical heritage of the Christian Church and see their work never to replace this tradition, but to enrich it." The musical idioms embodied in their songs represent a variety of styles including folk, rock, jazz and international musical idiom accompanied with guitar, piano, mandolin, harmonica and African drums. The result is music with a wide range of emotional diversity, from prayerful to playful. While their spiritual roots are among United Methodists, ecumenical and interfaith settings are at the heart of the Strathdees' ministry. Their music has been sung on six continents and appears in many hymnals. They recently finished their 17th CD, "STAND for what is right." The Strathdees often minister in Central America, where they have ties to many churches and sing in Spanish. --http://www.umportal.org

E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Author of "Just what he would have me be" in Jubilant Voices for Sunday Schools and Devotional Meetings Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke ============ Hoffman, Elisha Albright, author of "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?" (Holiness desired), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1881, was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1839. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ==============

Henry Hart Milman

1791 - 1868 Author of "Ride On, Ride On in Majesty!" in Psalms and Hymns to the Living God Milman, Henry Hart, D.D., the youngest son of Sir Francis Milman (who received his Baronetage as an eminent Court physician), was born Feb. 10th, 1791, and educated at Dr. Burney's at Greenwich, and subsequently at Eton. His career at B. N. C. Oxford, was brilliant. He took a first class in classics, and carried off the Newdigate, Latin Verse, Latin Essay, and English Essay. His Newdigate on the Apollo Belvedere, 1812, is styled by Dean Stanley "the most perfect of Oxford prize poems." His literary career for several years promised to be poetical. His tragedy Fazio was played at Covent Garden, Miss O'Neill acting Bianca. Samor was written in the year of his appointment to St. Mary's, Reading (1817); The Fall of Jerusalem (1820); Belshazzar and The Martyr of Antioch (1822), and Anne Boleyn, gained a brilliant reception from the reviewers and the public. He was appointed Poetry Professor at Oxford in 1821, and was succeeded ten years after by Keble. It must have been before 1823, the date of Heber's consecration to Calcutta, that the 13 hymns he contributed to Heber's Hymns were composed. But his poetry was only the prelude to his larger work. The Bampton Lectures (1827) mark his transition to theological study, and the future direction of it was permanently fixed by his History of the Jews (1829). This book raised a storm of obloquy. It was denounced from the University pulpit, and in the British Critic. "It was the first decisive inroad of German theology into England, the first palpable indication that the Bible could be studied like another book, that the characters and events of the sacred history could be treated at once critically and reverently" (Dean Stanley). In 1835 he was presented by Sir Robert Peel to a Canonry at Westminster and the Rectory of St. Margaret's. In 1839 appeared his valuable edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall; and in 1840 his History of Christianity to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire. Among his minor works in a different field were his Life of Keats and his edition and Life of Horace. It was not till 1854 that his greatest work—-for "vast and varied learning, indefatigable industry, calm impartiality, and subtle and acute criticism, among the most memorable in our language" (Quart Rev.)—-Latin Christianity—-appeared. He had been appointed Dean of St. Paul's in 1849. The great services under the dome originated in his tenure of the Deanery. His latest work, published after his death, Sept. 24, 1868, was The Annals of St. Paul’s. Though one of the most illustrious in the school of English liberal theology, he had no sympathy with the extreme speculations of Germany. The "criticism" of Tübingen "will rarely bear criticism." He "should like an Ewald to criticise Ewald." "Christianity will survive the criticism of Dr. Strauss," and the "bright flashing artillery" of Rénan. His historical style has been compared to Gibbon in its use of epigram and antithesis. His narrative is full of rapidity of movement. His long complex paragraphs have often a splendour of imagination as well as wealth of thought. All the varied powers of his mind found vent in his conversation; he was called, after his death, "the last of the great converters." The catalogue of his friends from the days of Heber, "his early friend," to those of Hallam, Macaulay, and Dean Stanley, was long and distinguished. Milman's 13 hymns were published in Heber's posthumous Hymns in 1827, and subsequently in his own Selection of Psalms & Hymns, 1837. The fine hymn for The Burial of the Dead, in Thring's Collection, "Brother, thou art gone before us," is from The Martyr of Antioch (1822). Like Heber's, they aim at higher literary expression and lyric grace. He makes free use of refrains. The structure is often excellent. His style is less florid and fuller of burning, sometimes lurid force than Heber's. His hymn for the 16th Sunday after Trinity, "When our heads are bowed with woe," has no peer in its presentation of Christ's human sympathy; the hymn for the 2nd Sunday in Lent, “Oh! help us, Lord! each hour of need," is a piece of pure deep devotion. "Ride on, ride on in majesty," the hymn for Palm Sunday, is one of our best hymns. And the stanzas for Good Friday, "Bound upon the accursed tree," form one of the finest meditations on the Passion. All his hymns are still in common use. [Rev.H.Leigh Bennett, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)