Jos Strengholt

Warm invitation to St Michael's in Heliopolis

You are warmly invited to worship with our new English congregation of St Michael's Anglican Church in Heliopolis. Here our website! We celebrate each Friday at 11 am. For more programs, see our website.
In our brochure 'Warm Invitation' >click here for the pdf< you find more about who we are and what we do.

Two much older brochures are also available here:
A Short History of the First Beginnings (1912-1926)
The Church of St Michael's - Silver Jubilee (1925-1950)

Peter, you must eat unclean food...(Acts 10)

In Acts 10, St Peter has a vision in which God commands him explicitely to eat unclean food. What a strange command! But it prepares Peter to realize that non-Jewish people are no unclean. God is not ethnocentric; he has a 'world vision'.

That was a tough nut to crack for the very early Jewish followers of Jesus. Is it easier for us? Is our church not the best? Is our country not supreme? Are our cultural habits not best? How to live in one church and in one world with so many different cultures.

>>Download here the pdf of my sermon of 18 and 20 May 2012

Renovation of cafeteria

At St Michael's we have a cafeteria that plays an import role in the social life and the church growth of our four congregations. The cafeteria is in urgent need of some renovation. Here you find a pdf with information about what we need. Maybe a project for you and your church?

We also continue to seach for support for a project in Ethiopia. Here a simple brochure about this project.

Easter season sermons 2012

This year was my first Easter season as a priest in Heliopolis - Egypt. I enjoyed it greatly, but didnot realize how busy it could be. Especialy because we also organized three music concerts and a study week on church fathers. Here my sermons for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter, and Easter I. We celebrated Easter according to the dating system of the oriental churches, by the way, for ecumenical reasons.
Maundy Thursday
Good Friday
Easter
Easter I

Just Chatting

Two new congregations

In Heliopolis, we have started two new Anglican congregations. On Friday morning at 11 am, we celebrate in English. In our first services we welcomed about 25 people each time. We have also started a new Egyptian congregation, on Sunday night at 7 pm. We rejoice in the 35 or so people who worshipped with us last week.

Dutch blog for cloggies

If you happen to know the glorious Dutch language, you may be interested to follow my musings on my main blog. Any brainwave seems to pass that blog, so be warned. This website where you presently are, contains my longer (more lasting) writings. My blog is a bit eh... well... less permanent shall we say? KLIK HIER

Surat al-Fatiha

Under 'studies' I have placed some self-study I am doing in the Qur'an - just a feeble beginning. Have a look and let me know my mistakes ;-)

Coptic Studies

Under the Studies button, you can find some lectures I have recently (February- March 2008) held in our church here in Maadi (Egypt). I will probably continue to work on them as I happen to be a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to historical truth and the shape of documents. Oh, if only I had been a native English speaker. I hope you enjoy these and the other papers of mine that will slowly appear here.