All-Creating Heavenly Giver

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All creating heavenly Giver

Author: Michael Saward
Tune: MEAD HOUSE
Published in 4 hymnals

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Source: Ancient and Modern: hymns and songs for refreshing worship #485

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Author: Michael Saward

Michael John Saward (b. Blackheath, Kent, England, 1932) was residentiary Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, and a church commissioner and member of the general synod of the Church of England. Educated at Eltham College, Bristol University, and Tyndale Hall, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1956. Saward served in several congregations and was radio and television officer for the Church Information Office (1967-1972). His publications include Leisure (1963), Couldn’t Care Less (1966), Don't Miss the Party (1974), and All Change (1983). Associated with the Jubilate Group for a number of years, he has written some sixty hymns and served as text editor for Hymns for Today's Church (1982). Bert Polman Go to person page >

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First Line:	All creating heavenly Giver
Title:	All-Creating Heavenly Giver
Author:	Michael Saward
Source:	Sing Glory (Jubilate Hymns, 1999)
Language:	English

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MEAD HOUSE

Cyril V. Taylor (PHH 286) composed MEAD HOUSE as a setting for Christopher Wordsworth's "Alleluia, Alleluia!" (387). Named for a house in Redhill, Surrey, England, where Taylor often stayed as a boy, the tune was one of twenty tunes by Taylor published in the BBC Hymn Book (1951). MEAD HOUSE is a ro…

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