“I’ll Meet You in Church Sunday Morning” is a bluegrass gospel song written by Bill Monroe, the Kentucky mandolinist who founded the music. Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys recorded it in the early 1950s, and it later gave its name to one of his gospel albums.
The song is a warm invitation rather than a lament — a promise to meet a loved one at church for Sunday worship, framed in the plain, fellowship-minded language of country gospel. Sacred singing was a fixed part of Monroe’s music, rooted in the church traditions of his Kentucky childhood, and this song is a characteristically simple, uplifting example.
The song held a steady place in bluegrass gospel singing, its easy melody and quartet-friendly harmony making it a natural for stage programs. The version heard here is by the Bluegrass Band, from their 1991 gospel album “Shine Hallelujah Shine.”
