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This is the Day
Author: Les Garrett Meter: Irregular Appears in 43 hymnals First Line: This is the day (This is the day) Text Sources: Traditional (st. 2-3)
This is the Day
THIS IS THE DAY
Meter: Irregular Appears in 45 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Les Garrett Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 11231 12334 3223 Used With Text: This Is the Day
THIS IS THE DAY
This is the day that the Lord has made
Hymnal: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #S.28 (1987) First Line: This is the day, this is the day Topics: Easter The Resurrection of Christ; Easter 1 The Upper Room Scripture: Psalm 118:24 Languages: English Tune Title: THIS IS THE DAY
This is the day that the Lord has made
This Is the Day
Author: Unknown; R. Gerald Hobbs Hymnal: Voices United #412 (1996) Meter: Irregular First Line: This is the day, this is the day Topics: The Church at Worship Opening and Morning Hymns; liturgical Opening Hymns; Choruses and Refrains; Opening Hymns; Service Music Gathering, Call to Worship, Greeting; Proper 18 Year B Tune Title: THIS IS THE DAY
This Is the Day
This Is the Day
Author: Les Garrett Hymnal: Songs for Life #3 (1995) Topics: Meeting with God's People Gathering Scripture: Psalm 118:24 Languages: English Tune Title: THIS IS THE DAY
This Is the Day
John L. Bell
b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell (b. 1949) Arranger of "THIS IS THE DAY" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal:
"I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)]
That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications.
Emily Brink
John L. Bell
Anonymous
Person Name: Unknown Author of "This is the day" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Anonymous
Tom Fettke
b. 1941 Arranger of "THIS IS THE DAY" in Baptist Hymnal 1991 Thomas E. Fettke (b. Bronx, New York City, 1941) Educated at Oakland City College and California State University, in Hayward, CA, Fettke has taught in several public and Christian high schools and served as minister of music in various churches, all in California. He has published over eight hundred compositions and arrangements (some under the pseudonyms Robert F. Douglas and David J. Allen) and produced a number of recordings. Fettke was the senior editor of The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration (1986).
Bert Polman
Tom Fettke
