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Help us to be peace-makers

Author: Colvin Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Help us, Lord, to be peace-makers Topics: Peace Used With Tune: EVENING PRAYER Text Sources: Written by Colvin in Malawi

EVENING PRAYER

Appears in 47 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Stainer Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 55543 33212 33543 Used With Text: Help us to be peace-makers

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Help us, Christ, to be peace-makers

Author: Tom Colvin Hymnal: Come, Let Us Walk This Road Together #34 (1997) Lyrics: 1 Help us, Christ, to be peace-makers, rooted in your love and life, bringing captives hopes of freedom, peace with justice ending strife. 2 All these walls of class and race are built of pride and selfishness; violence follows exploitation, war erupts from fearfulness. 3 "Care for friends, ignore the others" worldly wisdom seems to say. Loving foes and friends as neighbors is our costly, Christlike way. 4 We are stronger than our captors, free are we but pris'ners they. Though they count us now as nothing, love through Christ will win the day. 5 May we walk with you, dear Yesu, heeding neither wound nor loss, seeking justice for our neighbor, finding freedom through your Cross. Topics: Songs of Dedication and Service Languages: English Tune Title: EVENING PRAYER

Help us to be peace-makers

Author: Colvin Hymnal: Global Praise 1 (Rev. ed.) #29 (2000) First Line: Help us, Lord, to be peace-makers Topics: Peace Languages: English Tune Title: EVENING PRAYER

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John Stainer

1840 - 1901 Person Name: John Stainer, 1840-1901 Composer of "EVENING PRAYER" in Come, Let Us Walk This Road Together

Tom Colvin

1925 - 2000 Author of "Help us, Christ, to be peace-makers" in Come, Let Us Walk This Road Together Tom Colvin (b. 1925; d. 2000) was trained as an engineer and worked in that profession in Burma and Singapore from 1945 to 1948. After studying theology at Trinity College, Glasgow University, he was ordained in the Church of Scotland in 1954. He served as missionary in Nyasaland (now Malawi) from 1954 to 1958, in Ghana from 1958 to 1964, and again in Nyasaland from 1964 to 1974. His work there included preaching, education, and community development. After completing his missionary work, Colvin became a minister in the United Reformed Church of England and served an inner-city church in London. He returned to Africa in 1984 as a development consultant to the Zimbabwe Christian Council. Colvin's writings include Christ's Work in Free Africa (1964) and three collections of hymns, many written in collaboration with African Christians–Free to Serve (1966), Leap My Soul (1976), and Fill Us with Your Love (1983). Bert Polman