John A. Dalles is a clergyman and hymnwriter who was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
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.
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 (Educational Ministries, Inc.), Swift Currents and Still Waters (GIA Publications, 2000) and We Turn To God (Wayne Leupold Editions, 2010).
His hymn texts have also been set as choral anthems by sacred composers john Ferguson, Glenn Rudolph,[4] John S. Dixon,[5] Dorothy Frisch, and others, published by Oxford University Press, MorningStar,[6] Hinshaw,[7] GIA Publications, Selah[8] and Wayne Leupold Editions.