The Anglican Parish of Roodepoort
St. John the Baptist | St. Francis

Mission statement Location Parish Office Ministry
Team 		Contact List Services Rand Pioneer DaysLighter moments

Mission Statement
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Location :

St. John the Baptist
     St. Francis
8 Amelia Street,
Roodepoort
Edward Mitchell Street,
Davidsonville

Parish Office :

Postal Address P.O. Box 5304,
Horizon,
1730
Phone 011-763-1517
Fax n/a
email
Office hours No fixed hours.
'Phone for an appointment.

Ministry Team :

Person After hours duty Contact Day off
(Rector) Luke Pato  
 011-241-7805
  
(Assistant) Mpho Chaane 011-455-4449Monday
(Deacon) Sharmaine James 011-768-8088 (w)
083-492-1307		 

Contact List :

Person Function Contact details
Deon Daniels Warden 011-672-9066
082 807 2067
Down Jacobs Warden 011-497-6630
082 438 3779
Esmeralda Dick Alternate warden 011-241-2026
083 307 7084 
Edwina Fillies Secretary011-474-3410
082 223 9058
Emma RusselFinance011-664-7377
083 249 3515

Services :

St. John the BaptistSt. Francis
Day Time Type of service.TimeType of service.
Sunday 9:00 am
 Eucharist
7:30 am 
Monday      
Tuesday      
Wednesday 10:00 am
7:00 pm		  Eucharist
  
Thursday      
Friday      
Saturday      

In the days of the Rand Pioneers

The Parish of Roodepoort may be said to have started in the days of Bishop Bousfield who wrote in 1886, "I paid my first visit to the then commencing Witwatersrand Gold fields, I think in October. At the top of a rising ground......... there stood twenty-eight or twenty six shanties rather than houses, of which sixteen were places for the sale of drinks, and an hotel, in the dining-room of which I held the first church, or I think, any service." Soon it was necessary to have a permanent priest, and in 1887 the Revd. J.T. Darragh, a somewhat fiery but immensely able Irishman, was given charge of a Parish which included the whole of the Reef: It was as a result of his dynamic energy that most of the Reef parishes grew. In 1896 Roodepoort was self-supporting and "needed no assistance from Diocesan Funds."

Ninety nine years ago - on June 24th, 1903, the Church of St. John the Baptist, Roodepoort, was dedicated by the Rt. Revd. W.A. Carter, Lord Bishop of Pretoria. Evacuations had begun on February 13th that year, soon after the Revd. C.A. Lane became Priest-in-charge with commission to build a church..........

On Advent Sunday 2001, The Revd. Martin L K Louw was instituted as the present Rector of the Parish.

Lighter moments in the life of the parish

  1. THE SERVICE REGISTER REPORTS that on 22nd October 1916 there was no collection (because there was no congregation!)
  2. Another entry reads: "7.00 p.m. on 4th Advent 1918,NO SERMON - NO COLLECTION - VERY WET."
  3. Parish Centenary June 2003

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