St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church
34 Head St N N7G 2J7 Strathroy, ON, Canada

Here's your Friday Funny! No, I don't think our organist is taking up the electric guitar any time soon! Blessings for a restful weekend and don't forget to join us on YouTube for this Sunday's service. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiSJQdR0nNuLsZ5KNeQCJfQ

Notes on 2 Kings 2.1-12

I (Kelly) would like to put together some family lent kits with activities and will create some post with stories and activities. If you are in the Strathroy area let me know if you are interested in a kit to make arrangements for pick up or drop off.

It's Hannah Grier Coome Day! Read all about this remarkable woman below: From 'For All the Saints': The Sisterhood of St. John the Divine is an order of Anglic...an nuns founded in Canada in 1884 and dedicated (as its Rule states) to personal sanctification and active charity. Today we remember Hannah Grier Coome, who was its founder and first Mother Superior. Born in Ontario, she married an Englishman and spent most of her married life in Britain. In 1877 her husband’s business sent him to Chicago, where he died of cancer the following year. Mrs Coome remained in Chicago for another three years, then decided to return to England and try her vocation as an Anglican nun. On her way back she visited her family in Toronto and discovered a group of Anglicans who wished to found a Canadian sisterhood. She accepted their invitation to take the first step and performed her novitiate in the United States. Mother Hannah returned to Toronto in September, 1884, and launched the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine. She and her new community initially faced a good deal of harassment, but their work during the Riel Rebellion, serving in the government’s field hospitals, overcame these prejudices. The Sisters eventually founded a hospital of their own, where over half their patients received medical attention free of charge. Later they established a nursing home for the elderly, one of the first in Canada, and took charge of a school for girls. Mother Hannah guided these enterprises, and the everyday life of the Sisters, with holiness, practical wisdom, and a sense of humour that pierced high-flying pretensions and unseasonable gloom. She retired from the office of Superior in 1916 and died on Ash Wednesday five years later. In her life she learned to be a light which kindled righteous deeds in others, and her community continues in the same work to this day. See more

Sunday November 15th 2020.

Looking forward to seeing you this Sunday at 11 am!

Please take a moment tomorrow morning at 11 am for silent reflection and prayer for those who have served, those who are serving and those who paid the ultimate price in defense of our country and freedoms.

CBC Manitoba has published an introductory video on the Rev. Henry Budd, the first Indigenous person in the Americas to be ordained an Anglican priest. cc Henry Budd College for Ministry, The Diocese of Brandon