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Rusty Edwards

Rusty Edwards is a Lutheran pastor at Christ Lutheran Church in Marietta, Georgia. From 1991 to 1998 he was Senior Pastor at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Rockford, Ill. There he was pastoral advisor and co-founder of the Luther Academy at Gloria Dei ( K-6 school).

Edwards has published over 60 works, including anthems, hymns and hymn tunes. His hymns have been selected for 15 denominational hymnals in the USA, Canada, Japan, and Australia. Selah has published his anthem, Hands Are Holding Rust, and a hymn collection, Grateful Praise.

Edwards was born in Dixon, Ill. in 1955. He received a B.M.E. from the University of Nebraska. He earned a Masters in Divinity from Luther Seminary and was ordained in 1985. He received a D. Min. from the Graduate Theological Foundation in South Bend, Indiana. He was named an Emerging Hymnwriter by The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada in 1992, and received the ASCAP Standard Award in 1994.
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Congregational Song publications
Grateful Praise: Hymns and Songs by Rusty Edwards

Choral octavos
Hands Are Holding Rust (SATB and keyboard, 410-537)
If You Can Walk (Hal H. Hopson, SATB, keyboard, 410-620, Mod. easy)

 

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