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Rev. Paul van der Bijl is the Director of Worship & Music at Covenant Church in Chicago, a role he has held since 2007 after beginning to assist with music there in 1995. He earned a Master's in Worship Studies from the Robert E. Webber Institute in 2020. Paul oversees...

Patrick van der Vorst is Assistant Priest at Our Lady of Mount Carmel & St George in Enfield, North London, in the Diocese of Westminster, London. He is a graduate of the University of Leuven and the Pontifical Beda College in Rome. Before being ordained to the priesthood in June...

Rogier van der Weyden (c.1399/1400- 1464), initially known as Roger de le Pasture, was an early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commissioned single and diptych portraits. He was highly successful in his lifetime; his paintings were exported to Italy and Spain, and he received commissions from, amongst others, Philip the...

Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy. With the exception of Holbein, van Dyck and his contemporary Diego Velázquez were the first painters of pre-eminent talent to work mainly as court portraitists, revolutionizing the genre. Van Dyck is best known for his...

Rev. Dr. Joel Van Dyke is one of the founding members of Street Psalms and one of the original ordained members. He has lived and served in Guatemala City since 2003. he did youth ministry and pastored a church in Philadelphia for five years before moving to Guatemala City where he...