Change Your Church, O God, to Be

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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 >

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First Line: Change your church, O God to be
Title: Change Your Church, O God, to Be
Author: John A. Dalles (1992)
Meter: 7.7.7.7 D
Language: English
Notes: 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
Copyright: © 1992 John A. Dalles. Used by permission.
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Tune

ST. GEORGE'S WINDSOR (Elvey)

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…

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