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Lori Erhardt

b. 1961 Hymnal Number: 388 Composer of "SPIRIT DANCING" in Voices United

Don-Whan Cho

Hymnal Number: 698 Composer of "TTUGOUN MAUM" in Voices United

David Bretzius

Hymnal Number: 78 Composer of "SPRINGBROOK" in Voices United

1920 - 2010 Hymnal Number: 355 Author (Dutch) of "For The Crowd Of Thousands" in Voices United Willem (Wilhelmus) Barnard was born in Rotterdam on August 15, 1920. Barnard was a Dutch protestant (Netherlands Reformed) theologian, pastor, writer and poet. He published about twenty volumes of poetry under the pseudonym Guillaume van der Graft. After graduating from the Grammar School he studied Dutch Language and Literature at Leiden. Later he studied theology and was a Netherlands Reformed minister in Hardenberg and Nijmegen. In 1954 he became study-secretary of the Prof. Dr. G. van der Leeuw-foundation, which meant a lot for the renewal of liturgy and church-hymns. In the sixties he was minister in Roosendaal, but his unstable health forced him to apply for an early retirement in 1974. He died in Utrecht on November 21, 2010. NN

Norman P. Olsen

b. 1932 Hymnal Number: 503 Author of "When Seed Falls on Good Soil" in Voices United Norman P. Olsen (b. February 15, 1932) is a Lutheran pastor. He was born in Union City, New Jersey to Norwegian immigrants and came to Minnesota to attend Concordia College, Moorhead and Luther Seminary, St. Paul. He remained in Minnesota where he served six parishes. While serving at Grace Lutheran Church, Luverne, Minnesota, Norman collaborated with his congregation’s choir director to write some hymns. The best known, "When Seed Falls on Good Soil", was written as a theme hymn to accompany a Lenten series on the parable of the Sower. Though not the original tune, the words were set to the tune Walhof when it first appeared in a hymnal and has remained with that tune in other hymnals. Andrew Hermodson-Olsen (son) and Norman Olsen

Margaret Joyce Dickin

b. 1918 Hymnal Number: 446 Author of "O God of Life" in Voices United Dickin, Margaret Joyce. (Beulah, Manitoba, February 5, 1918-- ). United Church. Graduated from its Training School (Toronto), 1950; pursued Sunday School work, in Toronto (1946-1949), for the Saskatchewan Conference (1950-1952), and in Regina (1952-1956), before deciding to enter the ministry by way of the University of Saskatchewan, B.A. (1957), and theological studies at St. Andrew's College (Saskatoon) and Drew University (Madison, N.J.). Pastorates in Saskatchewan at Strasbourg (1959-1961); Radisson (1964-1965); Saltcoats (1965-1970) with Walter Farquharson; Semans (1972-1973); and Regina (1973-?); also at Houston, British Columbia, 1970-1972. --Hugh McKellar, DNAH Archives

William Richards

Hymnal Number: 898b Composer of "[Blessed are you among women]" in Voices United

Paul Gregory

b. 1920 Hymnal Number: 666 Translator of "In Lonely Mountain Ways (Ya-ma-ji Ko-e-te)" in Voices United

Étienne de Peyer

Hymnal Number: 299 Translator (into French) of "Teach Me, God, to Wonder (Enseignemoi, mon Dieu)" in Voices United

Walter Farquharson

b. 1936 Hymnal Number: 260 Author of "God Who Gives To Life Its Goodness" in Voices United Farquharson, Walter Henry. (Rosetown, Saskatchewan, May 30, 1936- ). United Church. University of Saskatchewan, B.A., 1957; B.D., 1961 (St. Andrew's College). His single pastorate (1961- ) has been a "tentmaker" ministry" at Saltcoats, Sask., which he combined with teaching English in the town's high school, and which he has from time to time shared with other clergy, notably Margaret Joyce Dickin. Many of his hymns have been set to music by Ron Klusmeier. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives