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Author: John A. Dalles
Born: September 13, 1954, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
A lifelong Presbyterian, John Dalles has lived in Pittsburgh, Coatesville, Lancaster, and State College, Pennsylvania; and South Bend, Indiana. He received the Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Pennsylvania State in 1976. While engaged in a semester abroad in Petworth, England, he sensed a call to the ministry. An architectural designer before divinity studies, he received the Master of Divinity from Lancaster Theological Seminary in 1982. During seminary, he served as a resource consultant for the original Parish Resource Center in L… Go to person page >
Change Your Church, O God, to Be was written in Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania] in 1992, based on the thought from the motto of the Presbyterian Church (USA): The Latin slogan, Ecclesia reformata, semper reformanda (The church reformed and always to be reformed). It was used in a renewal worship service at the Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh...(which I served for a decade as associate pastor) for the first time in 1992. John Dalles
George J. Elvey (PHH 48) composed ST. GEORGE'S WINDSOR as a setting for James Montgomery's text "Hark! The Song of Jubilee," with which it was published in Edward H. Thorne's Selection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1858). The tune has been associated with Alford's text since publication of the hymn in th…
Display Title: Change Your Church, O God, to BeFirst Line: Change your church, O God to beTune Title: ST. GEORGE'S WINDSORAuthor: John A. DallesMeter: 77.77 D
Display Title: Change Your Church, O GodFirst Line: Change your Church, O God, to beTune Title: ST. GEORGE’S WINDSORAuthor: John A. Dalles, 1954-Meter: 7.7.7.7.D.Scripture: Psalm 85:6; John 15:1-12Date: 1996Subject: Nurturing and Renewing | ; Renewal | ; Repentance |