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CAMPBELL

Meter: 8.5.8.5 Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John L. Bell Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 33654 12321 56353 Used With Text: God Give Us Life

Author: John L. Bell, b. 1949; Graham Maule, b. 1958 Meter: 4.4.6.8.6 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Human Life and Relationships; Death, Judgement and Eternal Life Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:19-22 Used With Tune: CAMPBELL

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God Give Us Life

Author: John L. Bell (1949-) Hymnal: Common Praise (1998) #297 (1998) Meter: 4.4.6 D First Line: God give us life when all around Topics: Funeral; Funeral; Lent (season) Scripture: Psalm 22 Languages: English Tune Title: CAMPBELL

God give us life

Author: John L. Bell, b. 1949; Graham Maule, b. 1958 Hymnal: Singing the Faith #612 (2011) Meter: 4.4.6.8.6 Topics: Human Life and Relationships; Death, Judgement and Eternal Life Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:19-22 Languages: English Tune Title: CAMPBELL

God Give Us Life

Author: John L. Bell Hymnal: Voices United #704 (1996) Meter: 8.5.8.5 First Line: God give us life when all around Topics: A New Heaven and A New Earth Death and Eternal Life; Angels; Eternal Life; Faith; Funerals and Memorial Services; Gift(s); Healing; Heaven(s)/Paradise; Hope; Jesus Christ Presence; Life; Love for Others; Music and Singing; Pain; Patience; Walking with God/Jesus Christ; Zeal; Proper 14 Year C Tune Title: CAMPBELL

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John L. Bell

b. 1949 Composer of "CAMPBELL (Bell)" 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