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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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