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Marty Nystrom

Person Name: Martin Nystrom Topics: Affliction; Biblical Names and Places Jordan; Biblical Names and Places Mizar; Biblical Names and Places Mount Hermon; Broken-hearted; Church Year Advent; Church Year Lent; Comfort and Encouragement; Desiring God; Elements of Worship Baptism; Elements of Worship Confession (Individual); Elements of Worship Gathering; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; Emmaus Road; Enemies; Fear; God Trust in; God as Rock; God's Love; Hope; Jesus Christ Good Shepherd; Lament Individual; Loneliness; Longing for God; Mercy; Mocking; Occasional Services Funerals; Processions; Questioning; Remnant of Isarel; Seeking God; Sorrow; Temple; Temptation And Trial; Year A, B, C, Easter, Easter vigil; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, June 19-25 (if after Trinity Sunday) Author of "As the Deer" in Psalms for All Seasons Martin J. Nystrom, a songwriter, was born in 1956 in Seattle, Washington, to a mother who grew up in the Christian Reformed Church; his father was brought up in the Evangelical Covenant Church. After graduating from Oral Roberts University with a degree in music education, Nystrom worked as a music director for the New York branch of Christ for the Nations. More recently he has served as a song development manager for Integrity Music, for whom he has written more than seventy songs. Nystrom is featured as worship leader on five Integrity "Hosanna" tapes. He also gives presentations at numerous conferences throughout the world. --www.reformedworship.org

G. A. Young

1855 - 1935 Topics: Comfort,Encouragement, Hope Author of "God Leads Us Along" in Baptist Hymnal 2008

Samuel Webbe

1740 - 1816 Person Name: Samuel Webbe, Sr. Topics: God's Church Healing and Wholeness; God's Church Healing and Wholeness; Comfort; Lord's Supper; Grief; Healing; Holy Spirit; Hope Composer of "CONSOLATOR" in Chalice Hymnal Samuel Webbe (the elder; b. London, England, 1740; d. London, 1816) Webbe's father died soon after Samuel was born without providing financial security for the family. Thus Webbe received little education and was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker at the age of eleven. However, he was determined to study and taught himself Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, German, and Italian while working on his apprenticeship. He also worked as a music copyist and received musical training from Carl Barbant, organist at the Bavarian Embassy. Restricted at this time in England, Roman Catholic worship was freely permitted in the foreign embassies. Because Webbe was Roman Catholic, he became organist at the Portuguese Chapel and later at the Sardinian and Spanish chapels in their respective embassies. He wrote much music for Roman Catholic services and composed hymn tunes, motets, and madrigals. Webbe is considered an outstanding composer of glees and catches, as is evident in his nine published collections of these smaller choral works. He also published A Collection of Sacred Music (c. 1790), A Collection of Masses for Small Choirs (1792), and, with his son Samuel (the younger), Antiphons in Six Books of Anthems (1818). Bert Polman

Juan Bautista Cabrera Ivars

1837 - 1916 Person Name: Juan Bautista Cabrera, 1837-1916 Topics: Alabanza; Praise; Comfort; Consuelo; Confianza; Trust; Courage; Valor; Dios el Padre Creador; God the Father Creator; Ecumenism; Ecumenismo; Esperanza; Hope; Faith; Fe; Fortaleza; Strength; Jesucristo; Jesus Christ; Lucha; Struggle; Majestad y Poder; Majesty and Power; Palabra de Dios; Word of God; Providence; Providencia; Reign of God; Reino de Dios Translator (Spanish) of "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God (Castillo Fuerte Es Nuestro Dios)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song Juan Bautista Cabrera Ivars was born in Benisa, Spain, April 23, 1837. He attended seminary in Valencia, studying Hebrew and Greek, and was ordained as a priest. He fled to Gibraltar in 1863 due to religious persecution where he abandoned Catholicism. He worked as a teacher and as a translator. One of the works he translated was E.H. Brown's work on the thirty-nine articles of the Anglican Church, which was his introduction to Protestantism. He was a leader of a Spanish Reformed Church in Gibraltar. He continued as a leader in this church when he returned to Spain after the government of Isabel II fell, but continued to face legal difficulties. He then organized the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church and was consecrated as bishop in 1894. He recognized the influence of music and literature on evangelism which led him to write and translate hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from Real Academia de la Historia (https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/39825/juan-bautista-cabrera-ivars) and Himnos Cristanos (https://www.himnos-cristianos.com/biografia-juan-bautista-cabrera/) (accessed 7/30/2021)

Natalie Sleeth

1930 - 1992 Topics: 믿 음; 영 생; 희 망; Comfort and Encouragement; Eternal Life; Faith; Funeral and memorial service; Hope; New Heaven and New Earth; Trust and Assurance; 고통과 편안; 평안 과 위로; 장례 와 추도식; 새하늘과 새땅; 신 뢰 와 확신 Author of "봉 오 리 에 꽃 한 송 이 (In the Bulb There Is a Flower (Hymn of Promise))" in 찬송과 예배 = Chansong gwa yebae = Come, Let Us Worship

Iona Community

Topics: Affliction; Angels; Church Year Lent; Comfort and Encouragement; Daily Prayer Night Prayer; Darkness; Enemies; Fear; Freedom from Fear; God Trust in; God as Refuge; God's Safety; God's Wings; God's Love; God's Name; God's Power; God's Protection; Hope; Love for God; Occasional Services Funerals; Occasional Services New Year; People of God / Church Suffering; Prayer Answer to; Prayer; Temptation And Trial; Trust; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 16-22; Year C, Lent, 1st Sunday; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, September 25-October 1 Arranger of "YE BANKS AND BRAES" in Psalms for All Seasons Iona Community, an ecumenical Christian group of men and women based on the small island of Iona off the coast of Scotland. The community began in 1938 when the Rev. George MacLeod of the Church of Scotland began a ministry among the unemployed poor who had been neglected by the church. He took a handful of men to the island to rebuild the ruins of a thousand-year-old abbey church. That rebuilding became a metaphor for the rebuilding of the common life, a return to the belief that daily activity is the stuff of godly service – work, and worship. The Community has since grown to include a group of members, associates, and friends all over the United Kingdom and many other countries. In addition to many conferences that attract people to Iona from around the world, the Community is known for its publishing of new songs and prayers for worship, both developed in community and gathered from around the world. For more information on the Iona Community, check their website: www.iona.org.uk. John Bell is probably the community’s most well-known member, having composed and arranged much of the community’s music. Sing! A New Creation

John L. Bell

b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell (b. 1949) Topics: Affliction; Comfort and Encouragement; Daily Prayer Evening Prayer; Daily Prayer Night Prayer; Disciples / Calling; God as Defender; God's Armor; God's Protection; Grace; Hope; Impatience; Jesus Christ Mind of; Joy; Lament Individual; Mercy; Peace; Prayer; Rest; Ten Commandments 9th Commandment (do not bear false witness); Trust; Year B, Easter, 3rd Sunday Arranger of "NIGHT HAS FALLEN" in Psalms for All Seasons 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

Fred Kaan

1929 - 2009 Topics: The Christian Life Justice and Human Rights; God Creation of God; Responses to God Commitment; The Christian Life Aspiration and Hope; The Christian Life Comfort and Healing; The Christian Life Discipleship, Service, and Mission; The Christian Life Guidance; The Christian Life Liberation and Justice; The Holy Spirit and The Church Unity and Fellowship Author of "A Hymn of Human Rights" in Hymns from the Four Winds Fred Kaan Hymn writer. His hymns include both original work and translations. He sought to address issues of peace and justice. He was born in Haarlem in the Netherlands in July 1929. He was baptised in St Bavo Cathedral but his family did not attend church regularly. He lived through the Nazi occupation, saw three of his grandparents die of starvation, and witnessed his parents deep involvement in the resistance movement. They took in a number of refugees. He became a pacifist and began attending church in his teens. Having become interested in British Congregationalism (later to become the United Reformed Church) through a friendship, he was attended Western College in Bristol. He was ordained in 1955 at the Windsor Road Congregational Church in Barry, Glamorgan. In 1963 he was called to be minister of the Pilgrim Church in Plymouth. It was in this congregation that he began to write hymns. The first edition of Pilgrim Praise was published in 1968, going into second and third editions in 1972 and 1975. He continued writing many more hymns throughout his life. Dianne Shapiro, from obituary written by Keith Forecast in Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/fred-kaan-minister-and-celebrated-hymn-writer-1809481.html)

Willard F. Jabusch

1930 - 2018 Topics: Biblical Names and Places Israel; Church Year Advent; Church Year Ash Wednesday; Church Year Good Friday; Church Year Lent; Comfort and Encouragement; Conflict; Cry to God; Daily Prayer Midday Prayer; Darkness; Elements of Worship Assurance of Pardon; Elements of Worship Confession (Corporate); Elements of Worship Confession (Individual); Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Failure; Forgiveness; God Dependence on; God Desire for; God as Refuge; God's Word; God's Forgiveness; God's Name; God's People (flock, sheep); God's Promises; God's Strength; Grace; Guilt; Hope; Hopelessness; Judgment; Love; Mercy; Occasional Services Funerals; Patience; People of God / Church Suffering; Prayer; Salvation; Social Justice; Temptation And Trial; The Fall; Victory; War and Revolution; Year A, Lent, 5th Sunday; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, August 7-13; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, June 5-11 (if after Trinity Sunday); Year B. Ordinary Time after Pentecost, June 26-July 2 Author of "From the Depths of Sin and Sadness" in Psalms for All Seasons Willard F. Jabusch (b. 1930) received degrees from St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, Mundelein, Illinois, and Loyola University, Chicago. He also earned a doctorate at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (1986), and studied music at the Chicago Conservatory and the University of London. A parish priest at St. James Roman Catholic Church in Chicago from 1956 to 1961, he taught at Niles College of Loyola University from 1963 to 1966 and at the Mundelein Seminary from 1968 to 1990. Since 1990 Jabusch has been director of Calvert House, the Roman Catholic student center at the University of Chicago. His theological publications include The Person in the Pulpit (1980), Walk Where Jesus Walked (1986), and The Spoken Christ (1990). He has written some forty tunes and one hundred hymn texts, often pairing them with eastern European and Israeli folk tunes. Bert Polman

Miriam Therese Winter

b. 1938 Topics: Sanctifiying and Perfecting Grace Prayer, Trust, Hope; Comfort; Grief; Hope; Testimony and Witness Author of "Wellspring of Wisdom" in The United Methodist Hymnal