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Clifford Bax

1886 - 1962 Scripture: Mark 1:15 Author of "Turn Back, O Man, Forswear Thy Foolish Ways" in The Hymnbook Clifford Bax was a prolific English author and playwright. He was born in south London. He studied at The Slade and the Heatherly Art School but he gave up painting and worked on writing. He was a friend of Gustav Holst and he wrote the hymn "Turn back, O man, forswear thy foolish ways" during World War I, at the request of Holst who wanted a text for the motet he composed on the tune OLD 124th. Dianne Shapiro, from Wikipedia, Find A Grave (www.findagrave.com) and "The Cambridge Dictionary of Hymnology" (https://hymnology.hymnsam.co.uk) accessed 1-30-2019

Randall Keith DeBruyn

b. 1947 Person Name: Randall DeBruyn, b. 1947 Scripture: Mark 1:14-20 Composer (descant) of "[I danced in the morning when the world was begun]" in Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.)

Joseph Abell

1939 - 2001 Person Name: Joseph Abell, 1939-2001 Scripture: Mark 1:16-20 Arranger of "[Tú has venido a la orilla]" in Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.)

Iona Community

Scripture: Mark 1:16-21 Author of "Will you come and follow me" in Wonder, Love, and Praise 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

Kathleen Thomerson

b. 1934 Person Name: Kathleen Armstrong Thomerson, 1934- Scripture: Mark 1:16-20 Author of "I want to walk as a child of the light" in Together in Song Kathleen Thomerson is Organist and Music Director at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church in Austin, Texas. She was born in Tennessee and grew up in Mississippi, California, and Texas. College music study was at the Universities of Colorado and Texas, the Flemish Royal Conservatory in Antwerp, and privately in Paris. Before retirement in Austin, she lived in Collinsville, Illinois, when her husband was a biology professor at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Her best-known hymn text is "I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light," set to her hymn tune HOUSTON. --www.morningstarmusic.com

Lauchlan MacLean Watt

1867 - 1957 Person Name: Lauchlan McLean Watt (1867-1957) Scripture: Mark 1:14-20 Author of "I bind my heart this tide" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

J. Randall Zercher

b. 1940 Person Name: J. Randall Zercher (b. 1940) Scripture: Mark 1:14-20 Composer of "UNION" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

Gerald L. Barnes

b. 1935 Person Name: Gerald L. Barnes, b. 1935 Scripture: Mark 1:15 Composer of "TETHERDOWN" in Singing the Faith

Fred Pratt Green

1903 - 2000 Person Name: F. Pratt Green, 1903-2000 Scripture: Mark 1:14-15 Author of "When Jesus came to Jordan" in Common Praise 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.

Louis Bourgeois

1510 - 1561 Person Name: Louis Bourgeois, c. 1510-1561 Scripture: Mark 1 Composer of "RENDEZ A DIEU" in Worship (3rd ed.) Louis Bourgeois (b. Paris, France, c. 1510; d. Paris, 1561). In both his early and later years Bourgeois wrote French songs to entertain the rich, but in the history of church music he is known especially for his contribution to the Genevan Psalter. Apparently moving to Geneva in 1541, the same year John Calvin returned to Geneva from Strasbourg, Bourgeois served as cantor and master of the choristers at both St. Pierre and St. Gervais, which is to say he was music director there under the pastoral leadership of Calvin. Bourgeois used the choristers to teach the new psalm tunes to the congregation. The extent of Bourgeois's involvement in the Genevan Psalter is a matter of scholarly debate. Calvin had published several partial psalters, including one in Strasbourg in 1539 and another in Geneva in 1542, with melodies by unknown composers. In 1551 another French psalter appeared in Geneva, Eighty-three Psalms of David, with texts by Marot and de Beze, and with most of the melodies by Bourgeois, who supplied thirty four original tunes and thirty-six revisions of older tunes. This edition was republished repeatedly, and later Bourgeois's tunes were incorporated into the complete Genevan Psalter (1562). However, his revision of some older tunes was not uniformly appreciated by those who were familiar with the original versions; he was actually imprisoned overnight for some of his musical arrangements but freed after Calvin's intervention. In addition to his contribution to the 1551 Psalter, Bourgeois produced a four-part harmonization of fifty psalms, published in Lyons (1547, enlarged 1554), and wrote a textbook on singing and sight-reading, La Droit Chemin de Musique (1550). He left Geneva in 1552 and lived in Lyons and Paris for the remainder of his life. Bert Polman