Welcome to St. Paul's Anglican
The Parish of Loughborough encompasses much of South Frontenac Township, a large area north-west of Kingston, Ontario. Most worship, pastoral services, and ministries are offered out of St. Paul's Anglican Church in Sydenham although we continue to reach out to people with satellite ministries in Verona, Harrowsmith, Perth Road, and the Maple Ridge/ Meadowcrest Apartments. Once rural in nature, the parish serves Christ in villages that are increasingly suburban or commuter in nature. This means our faith community is made up of both people who seek God in a small country church on Sunday and those who seek spiritual experiences in a variety of environments under different ministries throughout the week.
Serving a Diverse Community
Reflecting the plurality of Christianity today, our community is diverse. There are those who might be called evangelicals, others who are labelled Anglo-catholic and many in between who don't care to be labelled. There are those who might be called conservative and those who might be liberal and yet they are called by God to follow Jesus together.
Our spiritual journeys are also diverse. Some folks are 'cradle Anglicans', having grown up in the church. Others have grown up in other faith traditions or no faith. Some cannot remember a time without experiencing God and others have had a profound conversion experience that marked the time when they turned to Christ with trust. And still others have just begun their journey, whether as children or retirees, and yet despite their fears, doubts, and uncertainties they feel drawn into a closer relationship with Jesus with others who by God's grace follow Jesus in word and action.
Coming Together
These diverse individuals come together in a growing variety of groups to praise God, be nurtured in mind, body, and soul with scripture and the sacraments and be empowered by the Holy Spirit to help reconcile others, especially families, to God's unconditional love throughout South Frontenac.
With so many contradictions and challenges facing our small faith community, some may say we have been given an impossible task to come together in such a sceptical world where there is no centre. As William Butler Yeats wrote in, The Second Coming: "Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold." But what our critics fail to realise is that our true centre in not ourselves nor a building but Jesus Christ, crucified, died, and risen! "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." Matthew 19: 26. Do you believe all things are possible with God? If so, come visit us! If not, come visit us! Not sure, come visit us! 
Whenever you see the 'open' sign out front, you're welcome to come in to our sanctuary for private prayer, meditation, quite, or even to chat!