The Love of Christ Jesus Is Urging Us On

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Author: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette

Carolyn Winfrey Gillette has been a pastor in rural, small town, suburban, and city churches; she has also served as a hospice chaplain, a hospital chaplain, and a school bus aide helping children with special needs. She and her husband Bruce are pastors of the First Presbyterian Union Church in Owego, NY. Carolyn is a gifted hymn writer who has written over 400 hymns. These hymns have been sung by congregations throughout the United States and around the world — from the Washington National Cathedral to St. Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland to St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa to small town churches and small household congregations; they have also been sung at national church and international ecumenical meetin… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: The love of Christ Jesus is urging us on
Title: The Love of Christ Jesus Is Urging Us On
Author: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette (2012)
Meter: 11.11.11.11
Language: English
Notes: This hymn may be reproduced and used in worship from http://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/the-love-of-christ-jesus-is-urging-us-on
Copyright: © 2012 Carolyn Winfrey Gillette

Tune

FOUNDATION (American)

The anonymous tune FOUNDATION first appeared in Joseph Funk's A Compilation of Genuine Church Music (1832) as a setting for this text (there it was called PROTECTION). The tune was also published with the text in Southern Harmony and Sacred Harp. The ancestors of Joseph Funk (b. Lancaster County, PA…

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