Food for Pilgrim People

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Nagŭnee yangshik (Food for pilgrim people)

Paraphraser: Marion Pope (1990); Paraphraser: Shirley Erena Murray (2000)
Tune: YANG SHIK
Published in 2 hymnals

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Paraphraser: Marion Pope

Marion Pope was a Canadian United Church missionary who spent many years in Korea. She was highly influenced by the missiologist Katharine Hockin, also a United Church missionary who was one of the last western missionaries to leave China after the founding of the People's Republic. Marion was deeply dedicated to expressing the gospel in the cultural context in which it was immersed. She was a gentle but very strong woman who was ahead of her time in her thinking about mission partnership. Robert Faris (co-worker) Go to person page >

Paraphraser: Shirley Erena Murray

Shirley Erena Murray (b. Invercargill, New Zealand, 1931) studied music as an undergraduate but received a master’s degree (with honors) in classics and French from Otago University. Her upbringing was Methodist, but she became a Presbyterian when she married the Reverend John Stewart Murray, who was a moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Shirley began her career as a teacher of languages, but she became more active in Amnesty International, and for eight years she served the Labor Party Research Unit of Parliament. Her involvement in these organizations has enriched her writing of hymns, which address human rights, women’s concerns, justice, peace, the integrity of creation, and the unity of the church. Many of her hymn… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Nagŭnee yangshik (Food for pilgrim people)
Title: Food for Pilgrim People
Latin Title: O Esca Viatorum
Paraphraser: Shirley Erena Murray (2000)
Paraphraser: Marion Pope (1990)
Language: English; Korean
Copyright: © 1990, 2000, Christian Conference of Asia, admin. GIA Publications, Inc.

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