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J. B. Ellis

Person Name: John Ellis, 1750 - 1834 Meter: 6.6.6.6 with refrain Composer (attributed to) of "LENOX" in The Book of Praise

Allen W. Foster

1940 - 2019 Person Name: Allen W. Foster (1940- ) Meter: 6.6.6.6 with refrain Composer of "CHALLENGE" in Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal

Grayson Warren Brown

b. 1948 Meter: 6.6.6.6 with refrain Author of "Praise the Risen Lord" in One in Faith Grayson Warren Brown is an internationally known liturgical composer, author, recording artist and speaker.

b. 1953 Person Name: Dan Feiten, b. 1953 Meter: 6.6.6.6 with refrain Author of "Seed, Scattered and Sown" in Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.) As a founding member of EKKLESIA, Dan Feiten was transformed and blessed by a music ministry that has profoundly touched many. His composition, "Seed, Scattered and Sown," has been sung in churches across the continents, including St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. Other notable songs include: "Let the Heavens Be Glad," "Create in Me," "My Soul Is Thirsting" and "Be Near Me, Lord," and have withstood the test of time as they continue to be prayerfully sung by parish families everywhere. Dan is blessed by his ongoing service in the music ministry of Most Precious Blood Parish in Denver, Colorado. --www.ilpmusic.org/

Johannes Brahms

1833 - 1897 Person Name: Johannes Brahms, 1833-1897 Meter: 6.6.6.6 with refrain Composer of "LUCY" in The A.M.E. Zion Hymnal Johannes Brahms (German: [joˈhanəs ˈbʁaːms]; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. In his lifetime, Brahms's popularity and influence were considerable. He is considered one of the greatest composers in history. See also in: Wikipedia

Colin Gibson

b. 1933 Meter: 6.6.6.6 with refrain Author of "God Is the One Whom We Seek Together" in Voices United Colin Gibson (b. 1933) was born in Dunedin, the south island of New Zealand. He has been writing hymn texts and hymn settings for over 20 years. His works have been published and performed in Africa, the United States, Asia and Australasia, Great Britain and Europe. He is organist and director of the Mornington Methodist Choir, Dunedin, New Zealand, a lay preacher, and retired in 1999 as Head of the Department and Donald Collie Professor of English at the University of Otago where he currently heads the Department of Theatre Studies and continues to lecture on English Literature as Emeritus Professor. He has conducted numerous hymn workshops in New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain, and has been co-editor of a number of hymn collections. His frequent collaboration with Shirley Erena Murray is represented in several Hope publications, and he has his own published collections of hymns: Singing Love (Collins) and more recently Reading the Signature (Hope, 1994 - Code #1753) and Songs for a Rainbow People (Hope, 1998 - Code #8005). Three of his hymns are included in the Hope hymnal Worship & Rejoice (2001). --www.hopepublishing.com

David Mowbray

b. 1938 Person Name: David Mowbray, 1938- Meter: 6.6.6.6 with refrain Author of "Lord of Our Growing Years" in Worship and Rejoice David Mowbray (b. 1938) was born in Wallington, Surrey, England. He attended Dulwich College, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge where he read English. He gained an MA at Trinity in Bristol and a BD at London (External). Ordained in the Church of England, he was a curate at St. Giles in Northampton and at St. Mary's in Walford. Appointed Vicar of Broxborne, Herts in 1970 in 1984, he became Vicar of All Saints, Hertfordshire. In 1991 he became Vicar of St. Matthew's Darley Abbey, Derby, where he serves to this day. He has been writing hymns since 1977 and most of his texts are represented by Jubilate Hymns. Three of his hymn texts have been included in Hope's new hymnal Worship & Rejoice (2001). --www.hopepublishing.com

Jacob B. Weber

b. 1988 Person Name: Jacob B. Weber, b. 1988 Meter: 6.6.6.6 with refrain Composer of "GIFT OF HEAVEN" in One and All Rejoice American Lutheran organist and composer Jacob B. Weber is an editor in the music department at Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Missouri. He has earned degrees in church music and organ from Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, Minnesota (BA), and Concordia University Wisconsin (MCM). A prolific composer, he has dozens of keyboard collections and choral settings in print. In 2021, he was awarded the biennial Raabe Prize for Excellence in Sacred Composition by the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians (ALCM) for his original choral setting, "Festival Gloria" (CPH), set in Latin for SATB, organ, and brass. He served as the editor of the children's hymnal, "One and All Rejoice" (Concordia Publishing House, 2020).

Erik Routley

1917 - 1982 Person Name: Erik Routley, 1917-1982 Meter: 6.6.6.6 with refrain Composer of "AUGUSTINE" in The Hymnal 1982

B. D. Ackley

1872 - 1958 Person Name: Bentley D. Ackley Meter: 6.6.6.6 with refrain Composer of "HE ROSE TRIUMPHANTLY" in The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration Bentley DeForrest Ackley was born 27 September 1872 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the brother of A. H. Ackley. In his early years, he traveled with his father and his father's band. He learned to play several musical instruments. By the age of 16, after the family had moved to New York, he began to play the organ for churches. He married Bessie Hill Morley on 20 December 1893. In 1907 he joined the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team as secretary/pianist. He worked for and traveled with the Billy Sunday organization for 8 years. He also worked as an editor for the Homer Rodeheaver publishing company. He composed more than 3000 tunes. He died 3 September 1958 in Winona Hills, Indiana at the age of 85 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Warsaw, Indiana, near his friend Homer Rodeheaver. Dianne Shapiro (from ackleyfamilygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley)