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Mike Fay

Person Name: Mike Fay, 20th c. Hymnal Number: 646 Author of "As We Gather" in Worship and Rejoice

Eugene Greco

Person Name: Eugene Greco, 1960- Hymnal Number: 45 Author of "Mighty Is Our God" in Worship and Rejoice

Geoffrey Ainger

1925 - 2013 Person Name: Geoffrey Ainger, 1925- Hymnal Number: 194 Author of "Born in the Night, Mary's Child" in Worship and Rejoice

b. 1943 Person Name: Stephen R. Adams, 1943- Hymnal Number: 396 Author of "Where the Spirit of the Lord Is" in Worship and Rejoice Stephen Robert Adams USA 1943-present. Born at Woonsocket, RI, he studied music at age seven, taking lessons from a pastor’s wife. At Andover Academy, Andover, MA, he continued music studies. In 1960 he became church organist where his father was a Nazarene pastor. Steve and brother, Nate, were singing on network radio before they were school age. By age 13, he felt God’s call to become a Christian songwriter. The family moved to IN after 1960, and he, again, was church organist. He studied Greek philosophy and English literature at Indiana U, Bloomington, IN. He worked with musician, Doug Oldham, in 1973. By 1974 he had settled in Urbana, OH, and was organist/choirmaster of a church in Xenia, OH. He survived a devastating tornado there in April 1974. Seeing a funnel cloud, he left his car and ran into a furniture store and hid under a sofa he had turned over. Later, his dad spent over an hour removing rubble before there was a hole large enough for his escape. Returning two days later to the store, he found that the National Guard, digging to find him, had found everyone else in the store dead. From this disaster, he wrote the song, ‘Peace in the Midst of the Storm’. That same year he had an allergic reaction to propane gas from his trailer and lost his voice for 2 and a half years, regaining it while traveling as an accompanist with Doug Oldham. In the mid-70s he married Janet ‘Jane’ R, and they had two children: Craig Alfred and Christopher John. He wrote some 24 gospel songs, several becoming well-known. Most of his music was published through Dimension Music Company. Stephen and wife currently reside at Franklin, TN. John Perry

Hilary Jolly

b. 1945 Person Name: Hilary Jolly, 1945- Hymnal Number: 536 Author of "Through the Darkness of the Ages" in Worship and Rejoice

Greg Asimakoupoulos

b. 1952 Person Name: Gregory E. Asimakoupoulos, 1952- Hymnal Number: 682 Author of "The Fruit of Love" in Worship and Rejoice

Alcuin

735 - 804 Person Name: Alcuin, 8th c. Hymnal Number: 418 Author of "Eternal Light, Shine in My Heart" in Worship and Rejoice Alcuin [Alcuinus] Albinus Flaccus, was born in Yorkshire (and probably at York), c. 735. He received his early education under Egbert, Archbishop of York, to whom he was librarian for some time. Subsequently, in 782, at the request of Charlemagne, he went to France and attained there a position of considerable importance. He died at Tours in 804. His connection with hymnology is slight. His Opera were edited by Du Chesne, and published in Paris in 1617. See "Luminis fons, lux et origo lucis," p. 1667, i. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Billema Kwillia

b. 1925 Person Name: Billema Kwillia, 1925- Hymnal Number: 694 Author of "Come, Let Us Eat" in Worship and Rejoice Billema Kwillia is a Liberian convert to Christianity and a literacy teacher-evangelist in that country. --rogergmiller22152.tripod.com/

J. D. Robb

1892 - 1989 Person Name: John Donald Robb, 1892-1989 Hymnal Number: 207 Translator of "Oh, Sleep Now, Holy Baby" in Worship and Rejoice John Donald Robb (1892-1989) was born in Minneapolis and educated at Yale University and Harvard University. He practiced law until 1941, when he moved from New York to the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, where he was professor and head of the music department. He retired in 1957. Robb was a prolific composer. He wrote an opera, Little Jo (1947-1949); three symphonies, orchestral music, chamber music, and electronic pieces. He was also a collector of Hispanic folk music which was published in Hispanic Folk Songs of New Mexico/ (1954; rev., 1978) and Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest (1980). --The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993