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A lifetime of words, music, teaching and memory.
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John Fisher spent his working life explaining things to people. First science, to elementary and middle school children in Pennsylvania. Then real estate law and practice, to grown adults sitting for a licence exam.
In 2016 he founded John W. Fisher Creative Enterprises and started writing in earnest.
Lafayette College: Bachelor of Arts in psychology, cum laude, 1970.
Temple University: Master of Education, then thirty further graduate
credits and a supervisory certificate.
Licensed: broker in Pennsylvania and Florida, mortgage certified,
green practices certified, and certified to teach elementary and middle school.
Also: coursework at the Institute of Children’s Literature, and
articles published in Humpty Dumpty Children’s Digest.
At the front of the room
Before that, a lifetime of children: elementary and middle school science in Pennsylvania, and summers with Science in the Summer, the programme GlaxoSmithKline ran in Philadelphia.
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More than fifty anthems published through Sheet Music Plus, all released into the public domain so any choir anywhere can pick them up and sing them without asking.
The music does not sit on a shelf.
Every anthem is released so that any choir anywhere can pick it up and sing it without asking, and without paying.
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A Gospel passage set to music, so a congregation can sing the reading it has just heard preached. He named it, and he trademarked it.
Twenty-nine sermons at First Presbyterian Church, Fort Myers: the Gospel of Mark, baptism through resurrection.
Mark is finished and in print. Acts and Revelation is scheduled for 2026.
Scripture, then setting
Hymn tunes, folk melodies, children’s songs and original settings, whatever the passage asked for.
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The Sermon Song Singers
At Healthpark Senior Living, and at nursing homes around Fort Myers.
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The featured work
Thirty-two poems. Thirty-two photographs. Each poem faces a picture he took himself.
He names Walt Whitman as the reason he started, and points out that Leaves of Grass began at twelve poems.
Also at Amazon, Apple Books and Google Play. Links go to the retailer’s own listing for ISBN 979-8-89785-056-3.
I hope the reader will enjoy what they see and what they hear as they read out loud. John W. Fisher · back cover, Fronds of Palms
Twenty-nine sermons from First Presbyterian Church, Fort Myers, turned into settings a congregation can sing. Baptism through resurrection.
Thirty-two poems, each facing one of his own photographs. Wholesome, thought provoking, and funny in places.
The next volume, carrying the form through the Acts of the Apostles and the Book of Revelation.
A colonial Christmas story set at Valley Forge, drawing on the Pennsylvania he taught in for most of his life.
Sixteen years of teaching the licence exam, written down, for candidates sitting the Pennsylvania test.
The miracles of the Gospels told from the point of view of a Levite who was there. Still being written.
More than fifty published anthems, released into the public domain so any choir anywhere can sing them without asking.
The work itself
Seven titles, and more than fifty anthems.
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Covers for Fronds of Palms and Sermon Songs for Mark are the published editions. The rest are typeset plates, not printed covers; no cover image could be verified.
2026Marquis Who’s Who
Selected for inclusion in recognition of his work across the arts, real estate and education.
Fifty-six years after Phi Beta Kappa, forty-nine after the Freedoms Foundation Medal. The span is the point.
Bachelor of Arts in psychology, cum laude. President of the psychological honor society and holder of the McKelvy Scholarship.
Honorary award, in the same year he graduated.
Awarded by Founding Forward.
Given for his accomplishments in education.
Sixteen years teaching people to pass a licence exam.
Founded with three divisions: music composition, prose writing, and the Sermon Song.
An active member. The Sermon Song Singers perform at Healthpark Senior Living and at nursing homes nearby.
Recognised for expertise across the arts, real estate and education.
Fifty-six years
Married fifty-six years, and his wife’s caregiver since 2020. Both his children became teachers. Four grandchildren are working their way through school and university.
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Anthems published through Sheet Music Plus and released into the public domain.
Years married. Both children became teachers. Four grandchildren are working their way through school and university.
Only material that exists and could be verified. Sheet music, teaching papers and photographs from the Pennsylvania years would belong here and have not been supplied.
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Get in touch
The Sermon Song Singers perform at senior living and nursing homes.
Enquire about a visit →John W. Fisher Creative Enterprises LLC, founded 2016. Biographical detail on this page is drawn from his Marquis Who’s Who recognition of 2026 and from his publisher’s announcements. No award, date or affiliation appears here that is not stated in those sources. Two photographs are his own. Any plate captioned “illustrative portrait” is an AI-generated image made for this page: it is a likeness, not a record, and it does not document a particular event, place or date.
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