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Mary Bittner
1938 - 2007 Person Name: Mary R. Bittner Scripture: Matthew 14:15-21 Author of "If We Could Be Like the Widow" in Water from the Rock Mary Bittner was a native of Pennsylvania and received a B.S. in music education from Penn State University. She taught piano, organ, clarinet, and school music, and also served as music director and/or organist in Baptist, United Methodist, and Presbyterian churches and a U.S. Air Force Base Protestant chapel. In 1991 she became organist at Knox Presbyterian Church in Naperville, IL. She was an active member of the Naperville chapter of the Illinois State Music Teachers Association, and honored as Member of the year in 1998. She also participated in recitals and activities of the Fox Valley chapter of the American Guild of Organists. She began writing hymns in 1990 while enrolled in a church music degree program at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. She received her Master of Theological Studies in church music in 1993, the same year she began attending hymn writing workshops and conferences of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Mary died from cancer in 2007.
Source: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailyherald/obituary.aspx?pid=93934328
Mary Bittner
Thomas Binney
1798 - 1874 Person Name: Thomas Binney, 1798-1874 Scripture: Matthew 14:22-33 Adapter of "MANNHEIM" in Common Praise (1998) Binney, Thomas, D.D., b. at Newcastle-on-Tyne, in 1798, and educated at Wymondley College, Hertfordshire. Entering the ministry, he was successively pastor of a congregation at Bedford, an Independent Chapel at Newport, Isle of Wight, and of the King's Weigh House Chapel, London, 1829. The University of Aberdeen conferred upon him the LL.D. degree. He died Feb. 23, 1874. His works, exceeding 50 in number, include Life of the Rev. Stephen Morell, 1826; Money, 1864; St. Paul, his Life and Ministry, &c. He wrote a few hymns, including "Eternal Light! Eternal Light,” and "Holy Father, Whom we praise.” (Close of Service.)
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Thomas Binney
Stephan Bilak
1926 - 2004 Scripture: Matthew 14:25-31 Translator of "While on the Sea" in Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) Epifanius Stephan (Epi) Bilak, was a Ukranian evangelist who had a radio program based in Lausanne, Switzerland, "The Messenger of Truth," heard throughout Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union for more than 30 years. He was the minister of the Old Park Church of Christ in Ternopil, Ukraine and with the L'Eglise du Christ in Lausanne. At the age of 15, Bilak was taken by the Nazis to forced labor camps in Germany. Following World War II, he studied at the Bible Institute in Nogent, near Paris, France. Stephan graduated from Lipscomb University (Nashville, Tenn.) in 1957, did mission work in Canada and in Plattsburg, New York, taught at Rochester College (Rochester Hills, Mich.), before settling in Lausanne. He translated a few hymns from Ukrainian to English, the best-known of which is "While on the Sea."
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Stephan Bilak
