Oración por la creación (Prayer for Creation)

Author: Elías Gabriel Galván

Elias Galvan was born in San Juan Acozac, Puebla, Mexico, into a Methodist parsonage. He attended high school at the Instituteo Mexicano Madero in Puebla, a Methodist boarding school. On a scholarship from the Spanish-American Institute, a United Methodist institution related to the former Southern California-Arizona Annual Conference, he attended Compton Junior College and later obtained a B.A. degree from California State University at Long Beach. He attended the School of Theology at Claremont where he obtained a Rel. D. He became a probationary member of the Southern California-Arizona Conference, and later was received into full membership and ordained an elder. He has served the following appointments: Asbury United Methodist Church… Go to person page >

trad. Ingl.: Raquel Mora Martínez

Raquel Martinez (b. January 17, 1940) is a well-known composer and arranger of Hispanic songs and hymns. She has degrees from the University of Texas at El Paso and Perkins School of Theology and the School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University. She served as editor of the official United Methodist hymnal, Mil Voces Para Celebrar (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996). --www.gbod.org/lead-your-church/hymn-studies/ Go to person page >