Singing and Signing Songbook This We Believe Fourth Edition

Singing and Signing This We Believe (fourth edition) of the fourteen Articles on Church of God Declaration of Faith have been set to music.  These basic Bible truths are now available to you and to our children on DVD, in SONGBOOK, and on CD. The Singing and Signing This We Believe SONGBOOK has each song included with words and with sheet music; and, in the back of the songbook listed alphabetically, there are ILLUSTRATIONS and INSTRUCTIONS for signing each word based on the American Sign Language. These are truths of the Bible that we all want our children to learn from our Pentecostal heritage.  What better way to train our children than by hearing and seeing and doing?   We learn by hearing; we learn even more by hearing and seeing; we learn best by hearing and seeing and doing.  What we hear and see and do, we can remember for a lifetime.  Singing and Signing This We Believe (fourth edition) is a resource—a threefold “chord” or triad of invaluable truths.  Put them into the hands of our children and use them for teaching.  Our children will be enriched by memorizing the Bible verses and by knowing Singing and Signing This We Believe on Church of God Declaration of Faith.

Why was this series of books and tapes about Singing This We Believe on Church of God Declaration of Faith written? In 1977, the Women's Ministry Department of the Church of God published a Bible doctrine course on our "Declaration of Faith for Children" condensing them into ten Bible lessons. At that time the Department asked Irma to write a theme song for each lesson. The following morning she awoke from her dream and was singing, "This We Believe." With a grateful heart she wrote it down. Irma came to the Lord at the age of nine in the Church of God in Zellwood, Florida. Later, with her love for God and music, she enrolled in Lee College (currently Lee University) to study music in 1954. There she met Edward L. Williams, the Music Department chairman. Eddie also had come to the Lord at nine years of age in Baldwin Park, California. At this young age, it was very evident that God had gifted him with the ability to play music, for soon he was playing the accordion and the piano in churches. Eddie and Irma were married on July 27, 1955, by his father, the Rev. H. D. Williams, in Irma's home church in Zellwood, Florida. God orchestrated their lives, and for over 57 years they have served the Lord in church ministry, in education, and in missions. Together they have over 200 published hymns, gospel songs, and children's songs with books, songbooks, poems, and many articles. However, "Jesus Will Hear Me When I Pray" is Eddie's signature song; and, "I Have a Hope" and "Through the Spirit of the Lord I Have Wings" are two of Irma's most requested songs. Irma is a graduate of Northwest Bible College and Lee University. Eddie earned two graduate degrees: a master of divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; a master of arts in evangelism from Scarritt College; and one postgraduate degree, a doctor of ministry from the School of Divinity, Vanderbilt University.