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Thomas H. Troeger

1945 - 2022 Person Name: Thomas H. Troeger, 1945- Scripture: Amos 5:21-24 Author of "As a chalice cast of gold" in The Book of Praise Thomas Troeger (1945-2022), professor of Christian communication at Yale Divinity school, was a well known preacher, poet, and musician. He was a fellow of Silliman College, held a B.A. from Yale University; B.D. Colgate Rochester Divinity School; S.T. D. Dickinson College, and was awarded an honorary D.D. from Virginia Theological Seminary. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1970 and the Episcopal Church in 1999, and remained dually aligned with both traditions. Troerger led conferences and lectures in worship and preaching throughout North America, as well as in Denmark, Holland, Australia, Japan, and Africa. He served as national chaplain to the American Guild of Organists, and for at least three years he hosted the Season of Worship broadcast for Cokesbury. He was president of the Academy of Homiletics as well as Societas Homiletica. He had, as of 2009, written 22 books in the areas of preaching, poetry, hymnody, and worship. Many of his hymn texts are found in New Hymns for the Lectionary (Oxford, 1992), and God, You Made All Things for Singing (Oxford, 2009). Laura de Jong

Lawrence Bartlett

1933 - 2002 Person Name: Lawrence Francis Bartlett, 1933- Scripture: Amos 5:21-24 Arranger of "SALLEY GARDENS" in Together in Song Lawrence Bartlett was born in Sydney on the February 13, 1933. He studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music between 1950 and 1957, and at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music in 1960. He also studied organ, piano, singing and composition. He was the Assistant Director of Music at the King's School, Parramatta, a tutor in church music at Ridley College in Melbourne and in 1965 he was acting cathedral organist and master of the choristers at St Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney. Bartlett was an Anglican clergyman and wrote many compositions suitable for church performance. Bartlett was also a member of the Australian Hymn Book committee, and has been involved in the initiation of schemes for promoting the composition and performance of new liturgical music. He died in Sydney on March 17, 2002. Nancy Naber, from http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/bartlett-lawrence

Rusty Edwards

b. 1955 Person Name: Rusty Edwards, 1955- Scripture: Amos 5:21-24 Composer of "REBEKAH" in The Book of Praise

E. Margaret Clarkson

1915 - 2008 Person Name: Margaret Clarkson, 1915-2008 Scripture: Amos 5:6-7 Author of "Our Cities cry to You, O God" in Common Praise (1998)

Ruth C. Duck

b. 1947 Person Name: Ruth Duck Scripture: Amos 5:15 Author of "Come Now, You Blessed, Eat at My Table " in Lift Up Your Hearts

Patrick Appleford

1925 - 2018 Person Name: Patrick Robert Norman Appleford, 1925- Scripture: Amos 5:21-24 Author of "Father all-loving and ruling in majesty" in Together in Song

Alfred V. Fedak

b. 1953 Person Name: Alfred V. Fedak, 1953- Scripture: Amos 5:6-7 Composer of "HANDS OF THE POOR" in Common Praise (1998) 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

Jeeva Sam

Scripture: Amos 5:15 Composer of "COME NOW, YOU BLESSED " in Lift Up Your Hearts Jeeva Sam (b. 1957) is an ordained minister in the United Church of Canada, currently serving two congregations at Morgan’s Point and Forks Road East United Churches in the Niagara region of Ontario. Sam received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Waterloo and a Master of Divinity from Queen’s Theological College. He is also a professional proofreader and editor, and a columnist for two local papers. Laura de Jong

Guillermo Cuéllar

b. 1955 Person Name: Guillermo Cuellar Scripture: Amos 5:15 Composer of "VOS SOS EL DESTAZADO " in Lift Up Your Hearts In the mid-1980s, composer Guillermo Cuéllar composed the folk mass La Misa Popular Salvadoreña as a result of a commission from Archbishop Oscar Romero. Romero was assassinated while celebrating mass in El Salvador. Cuéllar himself was forced into exile for ten years due to threats on his life. Sing! A New Creation

Marcus Hong

Person Name: Marcus Hong Scripture: Amos 5:15 Acc. of "VOS SOS EL DESTAZADO " in Lift Up Your Hearts Marcus A. Hong, originally from Salt Lake City, graduated from Alma College in Michigan in religious studies, where he also served as a Student Ministry Coordinator, developing the student worship program; he then studied at Princeton Theological Seminary, receiving both an M.Div. and MA in Christian Education program in 2011, and then began a PhD program in Christian Education and Formation. He served as a chaplain from 2011-2015 in Koinonia, the fellowship for Princeton Seminary’s PhD students. He is co-author of UWorship (2014) and several of his musical arrangements were included in Psalms for All Seasons (2012). Emily Brink