O Jesus, You Were Born To Be

O Jesus, you were born to be

Author: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette
Tune: TRURO
Published in 1 hymnal

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FESTIVAL HYMNS AND PROCESSIONALS

Author: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette

Carolyn Winfrey Gillette is a hymn writer and Presbyterian pastor. Carolyn and her husband Bruce have been the co-pastors of Limestone Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware since August 2004. Carolyn's hymns have been sung by congregations in every state of the USA and in several other countries; they have been on national PBS-TV three times and the BBC-TV in the United Kingdom. Noel Paul Stookey of "Peter, Paul and Mary" made a music video with Emmy winner Pete Staman of Carolyn's hymn, "O God, Our Words Cannot Express," which was written on September 11. Her hymns are found on the national websites of the General Board of Discipleship of The United Methodist Church, UMCOR, the Presbyterian Church (USA), American Baptist Church… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line: O Jesus, you were born to be
Title: O Jesus, You Were Born To Be
Author: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Language: English
Copyright: © 2008 by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette
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Tune

TRURO

TRURO is an anonymous tune, first published in Thomas Williams's Psalmodia Evangelica, (second vol., 1789) as a setting for Isaac Watts' "Now to the Lord a noble song." Virtually nothing is known about this eighteenth-century British editor of the two-volume Psalmodia Evangelica, a collection of thr…

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