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![]() | African American Heritage Hymnal #326 | There's a sweet sweet spirit in this place | Sweet, Sweet Spirit | Sweet Holy Spirit, Sweet Heav'nly Dove | Doris Akers, b.1922 | Doris Akers, b.1922 | Irregular | 2 Corinthians 13:11 | MANNA | A Flat Major | | English | 2001 | |  | | |
![]() | Baptist Hymnal 1991 #243 | There's a sweet, sweet spirit in this place | Sweet, Sweet Spirit | Sweet Holy Spirit | Doris Akers; Kurt Kaiser | Doris Akers; Kurt Kaiser | Irregular | 2 Corinthians 13:11 | MANNA | G Major | | | 1991 |  | | | |
![]() | Baptist Hymnal 2008 #328 | There's a sweet, sweet spirit in this place | Sweet, Sweet Spirit | Sweet Holy Spirit, Sweet Heav'nly Dove | Doris Akers | Doris Akers; Kurt Kaiser | Irregular | | MANNA | G Major or modal | | English | 2008 | | | | |
![]() | Celebrating Grace Hymnal #241 | There's a sweet, sweet spirit in this place | Sweet, Sweet Spirit | Sweet Holy Spirit, sweet Heavenly Dove | Doris Akers | Doris Akers; Kurt Kaiser | 9.11.9.11 with refrain | | MANNA | G Major or modal | | | 2010 | | | | |
![]() | Celebration Hymnal #391 | There's a sweet, sweet spirit in this place, | Sweet, Sweet Spirit | | | | | | [Sweet, Sweet Spirit] | G Major | | | 1997 | | | | |
![]() | Chalice Hymnal #261 | There's a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place | Sweet, Sweet Spirit | Sweet Holy Spirit, sweet heavenly Dove | Doris Akers | Doris Akers | Irregular | | SWEET, SWEET SPIRIT | F Major or modal | | English | 1995 | | | | |
![]() | Hymns of Faith #78 | There's a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place | Sweet, Sweet Spirit | Sweet Holy Spirit, Sweet heavenly Dove | Doris Akers | Doris Akers | | 1 Chronicles 29:14; Psalm 133:1 | [There's a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place] | G Major or modal | | | 1980 | | | | |
![]() | Lift Every Voice and Sing II: an African American hymnal #120 | There's a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place | Sweet, Sweet Spirit | Sweet Holy Spirit | Doris Akers (b. 1922) | Doris Akers | | | [There's a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place] | G Major or modal | | English | 1993 | | | | |
![]() | Presbyterian Hymnal #398 | There's a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place | There's a Sweet, Sweet Spirit | Sweet Holy Spirit, sweet heavenly Dove | Doris Mae Akers | Doris Akers | 9.11.9.11 with refrain | John 14:18 | SWEET, SWEET SPIRIT | G Major | | English | 1990 | | | | |
![]() | Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #262 | There's a sweet, sweet spirit in this place | | | | | | | [There's a sweet, sweet spirit in this place] | | | | 1985 | | | | |
![]() | Sing Joyfully #153 | There's a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place | Sweet, Sweet Spirit | Sweet Holy Spirit, Sweet heavenly Dove | Doris Akers | Doris Akers | | | [There's a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place] | G Major | | English | 1989 | | | | |
![]() | The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration #252 | There's a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place | Sweet, Sweet Spirit | Sweet Holy Spirit | Doris Akers | Doris Akers | Irregular | | MANNA | G Major or modal | | | 1986 | | | | |
![]() | The New Century Hymnal #293 | There's a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place | Sweet, Sweet Spirit | Sweet Holy Spirit, sweet heavenly Dove | Doris Akers | Doris Akers | 9.11.9.11 with refrain | 2 Corinthians 3:17 - 5:5 | SWEET, SWEET SPIRIT | G Major | | | 1995 | | | | |
![]() | The United Methodist Hymnal #334 | There's a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place | Sweet, Sweet Spirit | Sweet Holy Spirit, sweet heavenly Dove | Doris Akers | Doris Akers | Irregular with refrain | | SWEET, SWEET SPIRIT | G Major | | English | 1989 | | | | |
![]() | The Worshiping Church #291 | There's a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place | Sweet, Sweet Spirit | Sweet Holy Spirit, sweet heavenly Dove | Doris Akers | Doris Akers | Irregular | Romans 8:9-11; Galatians 5:22; John 6:63; Psalm 133:1; Matthew 3:16 | SWEET, SWEET SPIRIT | F Major | | English | 1990 | | | | |
![]() | Wonder, Love, and Praise: a supplement to the Hymnal 1982 #752 | There's a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place | There's a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place | Sweet Holy Spirit, Sweet Heavenly Dove | Doris Akers (1922-1995) | Doris Akers (1922-1995) | 6.4.6.4 | | [There's a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place] | G Major or modal | | English | 1997 | | | | |
![]() | Worship and Rejoice #134 | There's a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place | Sweet, Sweet Spirit | Sweet Holy Spirit | Doris Akers, 1922-1995 | Doris Akers, 1922-1995 | | John 6:63; Matthew 3:16; Galatians 5:22; Psalm 133:1; Romans 8:9-11; Psalm 51:11; Acts 2:1-3 | [There's a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place] | F Major or modal | | | 2001 | | | | |
Doris Mae Akers (May 21, 1923 - July 26, 1995) was an American Gospel music composer, arranger and singer. Known for her work with the Sky Pilot Choir, she was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2001.
Doris Akers was born in Brookfield, Missouri to parents Floyd and Pearl Akers. She had nine siblings; Edward, Floyd, Evelyn, Marian, Donald, Nellie, Bernice, Harley, and Charles. The family moved to Kirksville, Missouri when she was five years old. She learned to play the piano by ear at age six wrote her first song, "Keep The Fire Burning In Me" when she was ten years old. During the 1930s she formed a group with her siblings, Edward, Marian and Donald, who went by the name of "Dot and The Swingsters".
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