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G. A. Hennig

Scripture: Matthew 27:57-60 Composer of "WHAT GRACE" in Lift Up Your Hearts Grace Hennig has served as organist, choir director, worship team leader, and accompanist in several congregations over the past twenty years. Presently, she serves as director of the Women’s Choir at Martin Luther College and is also active in music composition. Grace was graduated from Bethany Lutheran College (AA), Dr. Martin Luther College (BS), from Concordia University-Chicago (MCM) and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (BA). Grace has presented worship topics at conferences and served on parish worship consulting teams. Her hymn tunes and settings appear in Christian Worship Supplement (2008) and other hymnals. Grace Hennig

Paul Henkel

1754 - 1825 Scripture: Matthew 27 Author of "Ye wretched sons of men draw near" in Church Hymn Book; consisting of hymns and psalms, original and selected. adapted to public worship and many other occasions. 2nd ed.

Paul Benoît

1893 - 1979 Person Name: Paul Benoit, OSB Scripture: Matthew 27:57-60 Composer of "CHRISTIAN LOVE" in Glory to God

Charlene Nafziger

Scripture: Matthew 27:55-61 Composer of "CLIMBING VINE" in Voices Together

James Quinn

1919 - 2010 Scripture: Matthew 27 Author of "Forgive Them, Father Dear" in Scripture Song Database James Quinn (b. Glasgow, Scotland, April 21, 1919; d. Edinburgh, Scotland, April 8, 2010) was a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest who was ordained in 1950. As a consultant for the International Commission on English in the Liturgy, sparked by Vatican II, he has exerted influence far beyond his native Scotland. A collection of his hymn texts is available from Selah Publishing company. Sing a New Creation

Patricia B Clark

1938 - 2009 Person Name: Patricia B. Clark Scripture: Matthew 27 Author of "Singing Songs of Sadness" in A Taste of Heaven's Joys

Paul Wigmore

b. 1925 Person Name: Paul Wigmore, 1925- Scripture: Matthew 27:45-66, 28:1-10 Author of "I Found Him Cradled" in Common Praise (1998) Born 1925, London. Schools in Harrow, Bushey Heath and Barnstaple (N Devon). Many occupations between the ages of 14 and 42: apprentice mechanical engineer, shop assistant, junior clerk, photo lab trainee, National Service RAF photographer in India, Burma and UK, Kodak medical radiographer and haematology lab technician, then technical author. Publications and PR manager with air/sea lifesaving equipment manufacturer. PRO for the Christian Medical College and Brown Memorial Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab. Freelance writer, graphic designer and photographer in Cambridge. Advertising editor and art director with Kodak UK from 1967 to early retirement in 1985. Wrote first verse at age ten in Port Isaac, Cornwall, getting as far as: Clouds race like tattered rags across Port Isaac Bay, ... and then stopping. During brief acquaintance with Penelope and John Betjeman from August 1982 until John's death in July, 1984, encouraged by the poet to keep writing verse. Two collections of light verse published in 1988 and 1990. First attempt at a hymn text written ('ÄòMay we, O Holy Spirit, bear your fruit'Äô) at the request of Jubilate Hymns Limited in compilation of Hymns for Today's Church. Something approaching 100 hymn texts now published, plus a couple of cantatas and one opera. The Jubilate Group

Fred Pratt Green

1903 - 2000 Person Name: Fred Pratt Green, 1903-2000 Scripture: Matthew 27:57-61 Author of "After darkness, light" in Singing the Faith The name of the Rev. F. Pratt Green is one of the best-known of the contemporary school of hymnwriters in the British Isles. His name and writings appear in practically every new hymnal and "hymn supplement" wherever English is spoken and sung. And now they are appearing in American hymnals, poetry magazines, and anthologies. Mr. Green was born in Liverpool, England, in 1903. Ordained in the British Methodist ministry, he has been pastor and district superintendent in Brighton and York, and now served in Norwich. There he continued to write new hymns "that fill the gap between the hymns of the first part of this century and the 'far-out' compositions that have crowded into some churches in the last decade or more." --Seven New Hymns of Hope , 1971. Used by permission.