World Communion Sunday Origins - Written in 1997

The practice of celebrating World Communion Sunday on the first Sunday in October began as part of a stewardship emphasis in a local Presbyterian Congregation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the Great Depression.

This article presents information I researched in 1997 about the origins of World Communion at Shadyside Presbyterian Church in 1933, as printed in the wonderful but no longer in publication journal called "Church Worship".

Simply click on each photo, and you will be able to read each page easily.

Please note, there had been a link that is now broken, to this article.  I am citing the link here, in the hope that people will find this post when they search for the article:

https://www.wekivapresbyterian.org/articles/presbyterian_origins.htm

World Communion Sunday Sermon 2018

By the Rev. Dr. John A. Dalles

Pastor of Wekiva Presbyterian Church in Longwood, Florida

For this year’s World Communion Sunday “Peace and Global Witness” offering, Dr. John A. Dalles, pastor of Wekiva Presbyterian Church in Longwood, Florida, was asked by the PC(USA) Presbyterian Mission Agency to write a s sermon to go with the 2018 theme: “Peace at all Times”

The sermon is available online (https://www.presbyterianmission.org/resource/peace-global-witness-sermon-peace-at-all-times/) for folks to download.

This is also the sermon that Dr. Dalles will be preaching at his congregation on World Communion Sunday, October 7, 2018.