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Christopher Dock

1698 - 1771 Person Name: Christopher Dock, 1689-1771 Scripture: Isaiah 63:8 Author of "O Children, Would You Cherish" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 Dock, Christopher. (ca.1698--1771). Mennonite. Came from Germany sometime between 1710 and 1714. Four years later he opened a school for the Mennonite children on the Skippack in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. On September 28, 1735, he purchased 100 acres in Salford Township nearby and opened a second school, thereafter three days a week in each school. For several summers he also taught a Mennonite school in Germantown. A devout, sensitive lover of children, it was his custom to remain in the schoolroom each day after the children had left and pray for each individually. In this devotion, he was found dead on his kneed in the school one evening in 1771. His classrooms were adorned with illuminated mottoes from his pen. His method of organizing and conducting a school, Eine Einfältige und gründlich abgefasste Schul-Ordnung was published in Germantown by Christoph Saur in 1770. His Life and Works was compiled by Martin G. Brumbaugh in 1908. Six of his children's hymns are in the Unpartheiische Lieder-sammlung compiled by S. D. Guengerich in 1892: Mein Lebensfaden lauft zu Ende Ich will euch, Kinder, nicht verhehlen Bedenkt auch wohl, ihr liebe Jugend Allein auf Gott setzt dein Vertrau'n Kommt, liebe Kinder, kommt herbei Ach Kinder, wollt ihr lieben Others were: Ach! Kommet her ihr Menschen-Kinder! Kein Trost ward ihm gegeben Fromm seyn ist ein Schatz der Jugend Abermal uns deine Güte Ihr suender kommt gegangen Suesser Christ, Der du bist --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives

Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker

1843 - 1916 Person Name: Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker, 1843-1916 Scripture: Isaiah 63:8 Translator of "O Children, Would You Cherish" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4

Wilmer D. Swope

1925 - 2010 Scripture: Isaiah 63:8 Alterer of "O Children, Would You Cherish" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 Born Dec. 16, 1925 in Leetonia, OH to Herman and Mabel Swope. He was a farmer and also worked at the A & P Warehouse in Salem, OH and the Buechner Residence Hall near YSU in Youngstown, OH. He served as Fairfield Township Trustee from 1970-2001. He was a member of the Midway Mennonite Church and enjoyed writing hymns and Mennonite Church history. He died in Leetonia, OH on February 1, 2010. --See Youngstown News.

Brus del Monte

Scripture: Isaiah 63:9 Author of "Dios es amor" in Celebremos Su Gloria

Hans Mühle

1887 - 1973 Person Name: Hans Mühle (1897-1973) Scripture: Isaiah 63:9 Author of "Cristo, centro de mi vida" in Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día

Lucio A. D. Maier

b. 1972 Person Name: Lucio A. D. Maier (1972- ) Scripture: Isaiah 63:9 Vers. esp. of "Cristo, centro de mi vida" in Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día

Roland Packer

b. 1955 Person Name: Roland Packer, 1955- Scripture: Isaiah 63:7-9 Harmonizer of "JULIAN" in Common Praise (1998)

Rory Cooney

b. 1952 Person Name: Rory Cooney, b. 1952 Scripture: Isaiah 1-66 Arranger of "STAR OF COUNTY DOWN" in Lift Up Your Hearts

John Bacchus Dykes

1823 - 1876 Person Name: John Bacchus Dykes, 1823-1876 Scripture: Isaiah 63:8 Composer of "BLAIRGOURIE (NEW)" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 As a young child John Bacchus Dykes (b. Kingston-upon-Hull' England, 1823; d. Ticehurst, Sussex, England, 1876) took violin and piano lessons. At the age of ten he became the organist of St. John's in Hull, where his grandfather was vicar. After receiving a classics degree from St. Catherine College, Cambridge, England, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1847. In 1849 he became the precentor and choir director at Durham Cathedral, where he introduced reforms in the choir by insisting on consistent attendance, increasing rehearsals, and initiating music festivals. He served the parish of St. Oswald in Durham from 1862 until the year of his death. To the chagrin of his bishop, Dykes favored the high church practices associated with the Oxford Movement (choir robes, incense, and the like). A number of his three hundred hymn tunes are still respected as durable examples of Victorian hymnody. Most of his tunes were first published in Chope's Congregational Hymn and Tune Book (1857) and in early editions of the famous British hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern. Bert Polman

John J. Overholt

1918 - 2000 Scripture: Isaiah 63:8 Arranger of "BLAIRGOURIE (NEW)" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 John J. Overholt was born to an Amish family of limited means in the state of Ohio in 1918. As a child he was soon introduced to his father's personal collection of gospel songs and hymns, which was to have a marked influence on his later life. With his twin brother Joe, he early was exposed to the Amish-Mennonite tradition hymn-singing and praising worship. An early career in Christian service led to a two-year period of relief work in the country of Poland following World War II. During that interim he began to gather many European songs and hymns as a personal hobby, not realizing that these selections would become invaluable to The Christian Hymnary which was begun in 1960 and completed twelve years later in 1972, with a compilation of 1000 songs, hymns and chorales. (The largest Menn. hymnal). A second hymnal was begun simultaneously in the German language entitled Erweckungs Lieder Nr.1 which was brought to completion in 1986. This hymnal has a total of 200 selections with a small addendum of English hymns. Mr. Overholt married in 1965 to an accomplished soprano Vera Marie Sommers, who was not to be outdone by her husband's creativity and compiled a hymnal of 156 selections entitled Be Glad and Sing, directed to children and youth and first printed in 1986. During this later career of hymn publishing, Mr. Overholt also found time for Gospel team work throughout Europe. At this writing he is preparing for a 5th consecutive tour which he arranges and guides. The countries visited will be Belgium, Switzerland, France, Germany, Poland, USSR and Romania. Mr. Overholt was called to the Christian ministry in 1957 and resides at Sarasota, Florida where he is co-minister of a Beachy Amish-Mennonite Church. Five children were born to this family and all enjoy worship in song. --Letter from Hannah Joanna Overholt to Mary Louise VanDyke, 10 October 1990, DNAH Archives. Photo enclosed.