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)

Revelation 12 - Mary, Queen of Heaven

In Revelation 12, St John sees a woman in heaven with stars, the sun and the moon around her. Is she Mary, the Queen of Heaven? Is she the symbol of Israel? Or does the woman in Rev 12 stand for the church? Today I preached on this interesting chapter of the last book of the Bible. As if we are watching an episode of the epic series of Starwars!

>>Download here the pdf for my sermon of 20 January 2012

Building churches in Ethiopia

With the four Anglican congregations that worship in St Michael's church, we have adopted a project to build two simple church buildings for our sister-congregations in Gambella, in western Ethiopia. They supplied the land, they can pay a little bit toward the construction, but we like to find most of the money for them. We still need $2,000. Here a simple brochure about the project.

Studies in Church Fathers

This season, I will be teaching Patristics in the Alexandria School of Theology to the students in the final fourth year. I have collected 16 texts in Arabic that I will let the students read. The English outlines of the lessons will appear on this braindump. These are suitable for selfstudy, I think. The sources we study are usually available in English on the internet, for instance on www.ccel.org. My lessons are available under the STUDIES button in the menu.

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.