Transformations and Whispers

By John A. Dalles

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Anthem I Wrote With Glenn Rudolph - Just Published by MoringStar Music

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I am so glad to announce that an anthem that I wrote with my collaborator and friend, composer Glenn Rudolph has just been published by Morn...
Sunday, August 25, 2024

Delicious, Delightful, DeLand's Athens Theater

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A 1921 Italian Renaissance Revival palazzo has graced North Florida Avenue in DeLand for more than a century.  The Athens Theatre also stand...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Pounds Building is Every Ounce a Treasure

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  Winter Garden, Florida, has a beautiful stroll-able downtown, complete with median plantings down the center of Plant Street, an interacti...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

"123123"....

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“123123….”  That’s what Ginger said to Fred when she was “teaching him” to dance the waltz (!) in the RKO musical “Swing Time”.  Ginger is a...
Monday, December 18, 2023

Fort Street Presbyterian Church, in Detroit, Michigan - 175 Years Old

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1849 = 175 Years Fort Street Presbyterian Church, in Detroit, Michigan, is an absolutely impressive church. In 2024 they are celebrating the...

Hamilton Union Presbyterian Church - 200th Anniversary

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Hamilton Union 1824 – 200 years. Celebrating 200 years, the Hamilton Union Presbyterian Church is located in Guilderland, New York.   Carol ...
Sunday, December 17, 2023

Wekiva Presbyterian Church Has Longest Running Sunday Morning Worship Webcast in Internet History

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Back in mid-2004, while serving as the senior pastor of Wekiva Presbyterian Church in Longwood, Florida, and while dreaming about new initia...
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About Me

John A. Dalles is a Presbyterian clergyman & hymn-writer. Most recently he was Interim Senior Minister of Shadyside Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh. A graduate of Penn State, Lancaster Seminary (MDiv) & Pittsburgh Seminary (Doctor of Ministry), he has served First Presbyterian Church of South Bend, & Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh. From 1997 through 2018, he was Senior Pastor of Wekiva Presbyterian Church in Longwood, FL. As a part of his ministry, Wekiva became the first church in the USA to present live webcasts of worship, a ministry inaugurated Sun, Jan. 2, 2005. Dalles is a writer of hymn texts. His hymns are published in hymnbooks in the USA, Canada and Australia. He has published three books of hymns, COME, O SPIRIT, SWIFT CURRENTS AND STILL WATERS, and WE TURN TO GOD. His hymn texts are also set as choral anthems by noted sacred composers. His 2009 hymn, "God Bless the Work Your People Do" won the 14th annual Macalester Plymouth United Church Hymn Contest. He is married to the former Judith Taylor; they have a son, John Taylor Dalles and a daughter, Anne Elizabeth Dalles Sandoval.
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