Lee Tom Perry is a business professor, Latter-day Saint church leader and hymn

Hymn

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writer. He is the son of L. Tom Perry

L. Tom Perry

Lowell Tom Perry is a senior member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , having become a member of that body in 1974...

, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

As a young man, Perry served as a LDS Church missionary

Mormon missionary

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of the most active modern practitioners of missionary work, with over 52,000 full-time missionaries worldwide, as of the end of 2010...

 in the Japan

Japan

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 West Mission

Mission (LDS Church)

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. He was associate dean of the Marriott School of Management

Marriott School of Management

The Marriott School of Management is a business school located in Provo, Utah at Brigham Young University , a private university in the United States owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...

 at Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...

 in 2005. From 1991 to 1994 he served as president of the BYU 3rd Stake. From 2005 to 2008 he was president

Mission president

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 of the California

California

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 Roseville

Roseville, California

-2010:The 2010 United States Census reported that Roseville had a population of 118,788. The population density was 3,279.4 people per square mile...

 Mission. He is married to Carolyn Perry and has 6 children: Audrey, Lee Thomas, Justin, Diana, Christina, and Rachel.

Perry wrote the words to "As Now We Take The Sacrament", which is hymn #169 in the 1985 English

English language

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 LDS Church hymnal

Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1985 book)

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