John A. Dalles

Who is John A. Dalles?

John A. Dalles is a clergyman and hymnwriter who was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Penn State, Lancaster Theological Seminary and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, he is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church. Having served the First Presbyterian Church of South Bend, Indiana and the Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church, since 1997 he has served as Senior Pastor of Wekiva Presbyterian Church in Longwood, Florida.

As a part of his ministry there, Wekiva Presbyterian Church was the first church in the United States to offer live webcasts of its worship services, an ongoing ministry inaugurated on Sunday, January 2, 2005.

Dalles is known as a prolific writer of texts for hymns. His hymns have been published in hymnbooks used by denominations in the United States, Canada and Australia. He has published three collections of hymns, Come, O Spirit, Swift Currents and Still Waters and We Turn To God. His hymn texts have also been set as choral anthems by sacred composers john Ferguson, Glenn Rudolph, John S. Dixon, Dorothy Frisch, and others, published by Oxford University Press, MorningStar, Hinshaw, GIA Publications, Selah and Wayne Leupold Editions.