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Richard Baker

1927 - 2011 Person Name: Richard D. Baker Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Author of "All to Thee" in Baptist Hymnal 1991 Baker, Richard Dee. (Farmersville, Texas, May 12, 1927--September 5, 2011). Educated at Baylor University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Minister of music, Birchman Avenue Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Texas (1950-1956), then a music evangelist for eighteen years. In 1975, he was vice-president of Crescendo Publications, Dallas, Texas, and music coordinator of the World Evangelism Foundation. He was a recording artist and composed more than 100 songs. --William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives

James L. Elginburg

Person Name: James Lawson Elginburg Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Author of "I Will Follow Thee" in Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal Late 19th Century

João Wilson Faustini

1931 - 2023 Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Translator of "Anjos das Mansões de Glória" in Hinário para o Culto Cristão b. 1931, Bariri, São Paulo, Brazil. Presbyterian pastor, choir director, organist, singer, composer, translator, arranger and publisher of largest collection of Sacred Music in the Portuguese language. From 1982 to 1996 - Pastor at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) Newark, NJ St. Paul's Presbyterian Church in Newark is the oldest Brazilian Presbyterian Church in the USA. Retired on December 31, 1996. After Rev. Faustini was a Minister of Music at Second Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth.

Emmett S. Dean

1876 - 1951 Person Name: Emmett S. Dean, 1876-1951 Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Composer of "[O ransomed soul with joyous song]" in Sacred Songs of the Church Born: June 29, 1876, Conecuh County, Alabama. Died: October 8, 1951, Waco, Texas. Buried: Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, Texas. A Methodist, Dean taught singing schools for 40 years, wrote some 500 songs, and for four years headed the Trio Music Company. With Franklin Eiland and Homer Elliott, he founded the Southern Development Normal Music School in Waco, Texas. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Brian Henkelmann

Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Harmonizer of "HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING" in Moravian Book of Worship

Richard Dirksen

1921 - 2003 Person Name: Richard Wayne Dirksen (b. 1921) Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Composer of "DOMINUS REGNAVIT" in Wonder, Love, and Praise Richard Dirksen

Charles P. Price

1920 - 1999 Person Name: Charles P. Price (b. 1920) Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Author of "God, beyond all human praises" in Wonder, Love, and Praise Price was born in Pittsburgh in 1920 and educated at Harvard University, Virgina Theological Seminary, and Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He studied piano with Elizabeth and Ferguson Webster and was ordained as a deacon and priest in the Episcopal Church, Diocese of Pittsburgh. He served churches in Pennsylvania and New York City before becoming a professor at Virginia Theological Seminary (1956-1963). From 1963 to 1972 he was preacher to the university and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard University before returning to Virginia Seminary as professor of systematic theology (1972-1989). Price was a member of the Standing Liturgical Commission (1967-1985) and the Committee on Texts for The Hymnal 1982 (1976-1982), as well as deputy to the General Convention (1976-1985) and chaplain to the House of Deputies (1979-1985) for the Episcopal Church. His books include Introducing the Proposed Book of Common Prayer (1976) and, with Louis Weil, Liturgy for Living (1979). A number of his hymns and translations appear in The Hymnal 1982. --The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion

Reuben Morgan

b. 1975 Person Name: Reuben Morgan, b. 1975 Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Author of "Hear Our Praises (Se escucha el clamor)" in Santo, Santo, Santo Reuben Morgan is the Worship Pastor at Hillsong Church in London. Before this he was Worship Pastor at Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia, replacing Darlene Zchech in 2008. In the late 1990s, Morgan helped lead and develop the worship team for Hillsong’s Youth Group, Powerhouse. This band eventually grew into Hillsong United. Some of Morgan’s better known songs include “Hear our Praises,” “My Redeemer Lives,” and “Lord I Give You My Heart.” He released his first solo worship album, World Through Your Eyes, in 2005. He and his wife Sarah have three children. Laura de Jong

Ada Gibbs

1864 - 1905 Person Name: Ada R. Gibbs Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Composer of "CHANNELS" in The Worshiping Church

George Henry Day

1883 - 1966 Person Name: George H. Day, 1883-1966 Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Arranger of "GENEVA" in Worship (4th ed.) George Henry Day (1883-1966) was a choirboy at Trinity Chapel, New York City, where he studied with G. Edward Stubbs. Day was appointed choirmaster at St. Peter’s in Chelsea Square (1911) but maintained his position as an assistant auditor of the Gorham Manufacturing Company for two more years. He resigned as assistant auditor, took special courses at Columbia University, and in 1915 graduated from New York College of Music. He served as organist and choirmaster in churches in Youngstown, Ohio; Wilmington, Delaware, where he studied with Edward Shippen Barnes; and Rochester, New York, before going to Trinity Church. He was awarded a Doctor of Music degree from Lincoln-Jefferson University (1923). --The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993