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[Go ye therefore and teach all nations]

[Go ye therefore and teach all nations]

Composer: Leon Patillo; Arranger: Eugene Thomas
Published in 6 hymnals


Composer: Leon Patillo

Leon Norman Patillo (born January 1, 1947, San Francisco, California) is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, and evangelist whose career spans from mainstream rock to Christian ministry. After performing as keyboardist and vocalist with Carlos Santana on the albums Borboletta (1974) and Festival (1977), Patillo experienced a spiritual conversion that redirected his life toward Christian music. He released his first gospel album Dance Children Dance (1979) with Maranatha! Music and later recorded a series of successful albums for Myrrh / Word Records through the 1980s, earning multiple Billboard Christian chart placements. Patillo is the writer and performer of “Sing Unto the Lord” — a joyful, Scripture-based song that ent… Go to person page >

Arranger: Eugene Thomas

Eugene Thomas (b. 1941) is an American church musician and arranger best known for his setting of Jack W. Hayford’s Majesty, Worship His Majesty (1981). He has supplied choral endings and harmonizations for many other widely used hymns, crafting accessible SATB textures for congregations and choirs in the late-twentieth-century evangelical tradition. J. S. McDuff (from publisher notes and U.S. copyright filings retrieved 9/15/2025) Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [Go ye therefore and teach all nations]
Composer: Leon Patillo
Arranger: Eugene Thomas
Meter: Irregular
Key: B♭ Major
Copyright: © 1981 , Arr. © 1986 WORD MUSIC (a div. of WORD, INC.)

Timeline

Arrangements

Piano Solo

  • We Are the Reason: Contemporary Arrangements for Piano
    Composer/Editors Kurt Kaiser; Bill George
    Published By: Word Music Group, LLC (1982) pp. 69

Instances in all hymnals

Instances (1 - 6 of 6)

Gather Comprehensive #454

Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) #320

One in Faith #819

RitualSong #604

Singing the New Testament #114

The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration #308

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