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ENFOLDING

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John L. Bell Tune Key: c minor Incipit: 33322 33322 33365 Used With Text: God to enfold you

God to enfold you

Author: John L. Bell, b. 1949 Meter: 5.5.9.5.5.5.4 Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Reconciliation, Healing and Wholeness Scripture: 2 Corinthians 13:13 Used With Tune: ENFOLDING

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God to enfold you

Author: John L. Bell; Graham Maule Hymnal: Iona Abbey Music Book #42 (2003) Languages: English Tune Title: ENFOLDING

God to enfold you

Author: John L. Bell; Graham Maule Hymnal: Anglican Hymns Old and New (Rev. and Enl.) #258 (2008) Languages: English Tune Title: ENFOLDING

Author: John L. Bell, b. 1949 Hymnal: Singing the Faith #648 (2011) Meter: 5.5.9.5.5.5.4 Topics: Reconciliation, Healing and Wholeness Scripture: 2 Corinthians 13:13 Languages: English Tune Title: ENFOLDING

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John L. Bell

b. 1949 Author of "God to enfold you" in Anglican Hymns Old and New (Rev. and Enl.) 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