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Great and deep the Spirit's purpose

Author: Marnie Barrell (b. 1952) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: The Holy Spirit in the Church Illumination of God's Word; The Holy Spirit in the Church Enlivening and Renewing the Church; Dance; Scripture; Unity of Humanity Scripture: 2 Timothy 1:9-10 Used With Tune: LUX TREMENDA

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LUX TREMENDA

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 6 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Alfred Victor Fedak (b. 1953) Tune Key: d minor Incipit: 51654 35231 42321 Used With Text: Great and deep the Spirit's purpose

BRUNEL

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Colin Gibson Tune Key: G Major or modal Incipit: 31664 27753 12343 Used With Text: Great and deep the Spirit's purpose

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Great and deep the Spirit's purpose

Author: Marnie Barrell Hymnal: Alleluia Aotearoa #55 (1999) Topics: Arts/Music; Faith; Healing/Reconciliation; Holy Spirit; World Languages: English Tune Title: BRUNEL

Great and deep the Spirit's purpose

Author: Marnie Barrell (b. 1952) Hymnal: Church Hymnary (4th ed.) #617 (2005) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Topics: The Holy Spirit in the Church Illumination of God's Word; The Holy Spirit in the Church Enlivening and Renewing the Church; Dance; Scripture; Unity of Humanity Scripture: 2 Timothy 1:9-10 Languages: English Tune Title: LUX TREMENDA

Great and deep the Spirit's purpose

Author: Marnie Barrell (b. 1952) Hymnal: Hymns of Glory, Songs of Praise #617 (2008) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Topics: The Holy Spirit in the Church Illumination of God's Word; The Holy Spirit in the Church Enlivening and Renewing the Church; Dance; Scripture; Unity of Humanity Scripture: 2 Timothy 1:9-10 Languages: English Tune Title: LUX TREMENDA

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Colin Gibson

b. 1933 Composer of "BRUNEL" in Alleluia Aotearoa Colin Gibson (b. 1933) was born in Dunedin, the south island of New Zealand. He has been writing hymn texts and hymn settings for over 20 years. His works have been published and performed in Africa, the United States, Asia and Australasia, Great Britain and Europe. He is organist and director of the Mornington Methodist Choir, Dunedin, New Zealand, a lay preacher, and retired in 1999 as Head of the Department and Donald Collie Professor of English at the University of Otago where he currently heads the Department of Theatre Studies and continues to lecture on English Literature as Emeritus Professor. He has conducted numerous hymn workshops in New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain, and has been co-editor of a number of hymn collections. His frequent collaboration with Shirley Erena Murray is represented in several Hope publications, and he has his own published collections of hymns: Singing Love (Collins) and more recently Reading the Signature (Hope, 1994 - Code #1753) and Songs for a Rainbow People (Hope, 1998 - Code #8005). Three of his hymns are included in the Hope hymnal Worship & Rejoice (2001). --www.hopepublishing.com

Alfred V. Fedak

b. 1953 Person Name: Alfred Victor Fedak (b. 1953) Composer of "LUX TREMENDA" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) Alfred Fedak (b. 1953), is a well-known organist, composer, and Minister of Music at Westminster Presbyterian Church on Capitol Hill in Albany, New York. He graduated from Hope College in 1975 with degrees in organ performance and music history. He obtained a Master’s degree in organ performance from Montclair State University, and has also studied at Westminster Choir College, Eastman School of Music, the Institute for European Studies in Vienna, and at the first Cambridge Choral Studies Seminar at Clare College, Cambridge. As a composer, he has over 200 choral and organ works in print, and has three published anthologies of his work (Selah Publishing). In 1995, he was named a Visiting Fellow in Church Music at Episcopal Seminary of the Soutwest in Austin, Texas. He is also a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists, and was awarded the AGO’s prestigious S. Lewis Elmer Award. Fedak is a Life Member of the Hymn Society, and writes for The American Organist, The Hymn, Reformed Worship, and Music and Worship. He was a member of the Presbyterian Committee on Congregational Song that prepared Glory to God, the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Laura de Jong

Marnie Barrell

b. 1952 Person Name: Marnie Barrell (b. 1952) Author of "Great and deep the Spirit's purpose" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) Marnie Barrell is a hymn writer and piano teacher living in Christchurch, New Zealand and teaching at Christchurch School of Music. Dianne Shapiro, from Christchurch School of Music website (http://www.csm.org.nz/about/staff/) and Barrell's Facebook page (accessed 10/30/2017
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