Singing the Word: Hymns for Nurture and Mission

It has been said that "Necessity is the mother of invention." Someone I knew once turned that around to say, "The mother of necessity is the inventor of many things." Whichever way you want to say it, that expression explains how this book came to be. It grew out of the need for particular music for worship.Thus began a new professional hobby. Once I had begun, I wrote hymn texts during the 1990s and through the early 2000s and beyond, in all nearly 40.