Terry York, DMA

Education

DMA, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
MM (Church Music), New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
BA, California Baptist University

Courses Taught

Christian Worship
Integrative Seminar: Faith and Practice

Publication Highlights

• Co-author w/ David Bolin, The Worship Matrix (Celebrating Grace, Inc., 2010).

About Dr. York

Terry W. York serves as Professor of Christian Ministry and Church Music at Baylor University's George W. Truett Theological Seminary. He joined the faculty in 1998 after serving three years as the Associate Pastor of Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas, TX.

He has been Minister of Music in churches in California and Arizona. From 1984-1995 he served at the Baptist Sunday School Board (now LifeWay Christian Resources) in Nashville, TN. His duties there included being the Project Coordinator for The Baptist Hymnal, 1991. In all, Dr. York has published more than 40 hymns including the well-known "Worthy of Worship." His hymn "Give Us Courage" was commissioned by the Truett Seminary administration and approved by the Truett Seminary faculty as the official Seminary Hymn in 2006. In addition to his hymns, Dr. York has published more than 60 choral anthem texts set by composers such as Bob Burroughs, David Danner, Tom Fettke, Benjamin Harlan, Mary McDonald, Earlene Rentz, David Schwoebel, Joseph Martin, Vicki Hancock Wright, and Taylor Scott Davis, Dan Goeller, and Vicki Tucker Courtney.

The Worship Matrix, co-authored with David Bolin, is the fourth of Dr. York's books to have been translated into Chinese. In June 2008 it was his privilege to be one of two featured plenary speakers at The World Association of Chinese Church Musicians' biannual conference which met in Kuching, Malaysia. In June 2009, the Baptist Church Music Conference, meeting in Nashville, TN, gave Dr. York the W. Hines Sims Award, its most prestigious recognition.

Many of Dr. York's anthems, books, hymns, sermons, essays, and poems can be accessed on the website he shares with David Bolin, www.textandtune.com.

Dr. York and his wife, Janna, have two children and three grandchildren.