Gareth Hill
HILL, Gareth. b. Pontypool, 1956. Educated in Pontypool and Cwmbran, Gareth Hill worked for many years as a journalist and teacher of journalism. He became a local preacher in the Methodist Church of Great Britain aged seventeen, and was ordained as to the presbyteral ministry in 2001, subsequently serving in several appointments in Cornwall.
He cites the influence of both the congregational hymn-singing tradition of his native Wales and the popular music of his teenage years on his work in ministry. As a hymn-writer, he has three texts in British Methodism’s Singing the Faith (2011) and has published many more online. His Passiontide hymn ‘The desolate Messiah dies’ is a stark and vivid...
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