St Anne's Anglican Church
Richmond BC
V7C 1J8
Who we are
St Anne's Steveston is a part of the Diocese of New Westminster in the Anglican Church of Canada. The Parish was founded in 1891 in the fishing village of Steveston. In 1959 we moved to our current location at the junction of 1 Road and Francis Road in Richmond. The building presently in use was reconstructed in 1987.
St. Anne's is a wonderfully rich and diverse group of people, all seeking to serve Jesus Christ in our present day.
You would be welcome to join us.
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St. Anne's is a wonderfully rich and diverse group of people, all seeking to serve Jesus Christ in our present day.
You would be welcome to join us.
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Leadership
Leader Name:
The Reverend Roberta Fraser Â
Leader Position:
Priest-in-Charge Â
Phone:
Fax:
604 277 9655 Â
Leader Email:
Click here to contact The Reverend Roberta Fraser Â
Leader Bio:
While I love to travel and explore this fabulous world, I’ve never lived outside of British Columbia for more than a few months. I grew up in Penticton in the interior of the province. After High School I came to Vancouver to go to UBC and I’ve lived in the Lower Mainland ever since. While at UBC I met my husband Denis and we were married a couple of years later. At UBC I studied Zoology (my thesis was a study in population ecology of field mice) and my original career plan was to get a PhD and become a university professor.
But I soon realized the job market for professors was poor (to say the least) and didn’t pursue the doctorate. After a few years of working at miscellaneous jobs (a degree in Zoology doesn’t give you a lot of job options!) I trained as a Computer Programmer but then ended up at Kilborn Engineering doing project work (mostly designing/building gold mines). For almost 10 years I worked in cost control, financial analysis, project management etc. I knew I wanted to do something different, so during my time at Kilborn I started a degree in Environmental and Resource Management at SFU with the intention of becoming an Environmental Consultant. But then I recognised and accepted that I had a call to ordained ministry and eventually quit my job to go to seminary.
At this point I should probably back up and say something about my faith journey to put this sudden career shift in context. My parents had quit attending church before I was born so God and faith wasn’t a subject that I heard about at home. When I was about 7 a neighbouring child told me about God and Jesus and church and I was fascinated. So I started attending her little church. As I child I had no idea that there were different kinds of church or different understandings of faith, so I didn’t know that ‘my’ little church was a fundamentalist, biblical-literalist one or that there were other understandings of faith and the bible. I was a devout child who went to church on my own every week. But even as a small child I had trouble believing without question everything I was told I had to accept ‘on faith’.
Eventually at 16 I could no longer believe in the way I was being taught I had to, and my faith collapsed. I walked away from the church. I knew God existed, but I no longer had a way to understand how to relate to God or to have a faith life. Then, when Denis & I were planning our wedding, we went to St. Mary’s Kerrisdale to arrange for the wedding ceremony (mostly out of a vague sense that my family had been Anglican and St. Mary’s was close to where we were living). We attended a service so we could meet with the organist and I felt a yearning to find a way back to a life of faith.
A few years passed before I acted on that, but eventually I started attending the Cathedral and gradually rebuilt my faith. I became a very active lay person in the Cathedral and then the diocese and eventually realized I felt called to be a priest. While initially I resisted the call to ordination (I had other plans for my life!) I gradually came to realize that this was something God was calling me to, and I needed to do it. Once I started moving forward with the process towards ordination I knew I was doing the right thing and I’ve never regretted becoming a priest.
After graduating from Vancouver School of Theology with my MDiv I did my curacy with Brian Vickers at Holy Trinity in White Rock. When my placement there ended there were no paid positions available in the diocese and I returned to project work in the secular world for a couple of years (with the now infamous SNC Lavalin). When the project I was working on ended I turned down a permanent job in the ‘head office’ and return to paid work in the church (I had continued my priestly ministry in various ways during the time I was earning my living in the secular world). I did Interim Ministry training and spent 6 months as an interim priest before being appointed Rector of St. Anselm’s (Which is near UBC).
For 10 years I had the joint roles of Rector of St. Anselm’s and the Anglican Chaplain for UBC (and for many of those years the head chaplain for UBC). I left St. Anslem’s in 2013 and again started doing interim ministry and over the last 6 years I’ve been the interim priest at 4 different parishes. I enjoy the opportunity to work with parishes to help them to strengthen their ministry, vision for the future and prepare for the next phase of their life as a church. I’m looking forward to working with the people and leadership of St. Anne’s!
-Roberta Â
But I soon realized the job market for professors was poor (to say the least) and didn’t pursue the doctorate. After a few years of working at miscellaneous jobs (a degree in Zoology doesn’t give you a lot of job options!) I trained as a Computer Programmer but then ended up at Kilborn Engineering doing project work (mostly designing/building gold mines). For almost 10 years I worked in cost control, financial analysis, project management etc. I knew I wanted to do something different, so during my time at Kilborn I started a degree in Environmental and Resource Management at SFU with the intention of becoming an Environmental Consultant. But then I recognised and accepted that I had a call to ordained ministry and eventually quit my job to go to seminary.
At this point I should probably back up and say something about my faith journey to put this sudden career shift in context. My parents had quit attending church before I was born so God and faith wasn’t a subject that I heard about at home. When I was about 7 a neighbouring child told me about God and Jesus and church and I was fascinated. So I started attending her little church. As I child I had no idea that there were different kinds of church or different understandings of faith, so I didn’t know that ‘my’ little church was a fundamentalist, biblical-literalist one or that there were other understandings of faith and the bible. I was a devout child who went to church on my own every week. But even as a small child I had trouble believing without question everything I was told I had to accept ‘on faith’.
Eventually at 16 I could no longer believe in the way I was being taught I had to, and my faith collapsed. I walked away from the church. I knew God existed, but I no longer had a way to understand how to relate to God or to have a faith life. Then, when Denis & I were planning our wedding, we went to St. Mary’s Kerrisdale to arrange for the wedding ceremony (mostly out of a vague sense that my family had been Anglican and St. Mary’s was close to where we were living). We attended a service so we could meet with the organist and I felt a yearning to find a way back to a life of faith.
A few years passed before I acted on that, but eventually I started attending the Cathedral and gradually rebuilt my faith. I became a very active lay person in the Cathedral and then the diocese and eventually realized I felt called to be a priest. While initially I resisted the call to ordination (I had other plans for my life!) I gradually came to realize that this was something God was calling me to, and I needed to do it. Once I started moving forward with the process towards ordination I knew I was doing the right thing and I’ve never regretted becoming a priest.
After graduating from Vancouver School of Theology with my MDiv I did my curacy with Brian Vickers at Holy Trinity in White Rock. When my placement there ended there were no paid positions available in the diocese and I returned to project work in the secular world for a couple of years (with the now infamous SNC Lavalin). When the project I was working on ended I turned down a permanent job in the ‘head office’ and return to paid work in the church (I had continued my priestly ministry in various ways during the time I was earning my living in the secular world). I did Interim Ministry training and spent 6 months as an interim priest before being appointed Rector of St. Anselm’s (Which is near UBC).
For 10 years I had the joint roles of Rector of St. Anselm’s and the Anglican Chaplain for UBC (and for many of those years the head chaplain for UBC). I left St. Anslem’s in 2013 and again started doing interim ministry and over the last 6 years I’ve been the interim priest at 4 different parishes. I enjoy the opportunity to work with parishes to help them to strengthen their ministry, vision for the future and prepare for the next phase of their life as a church. I’m looking forward to working with the people and leadership of St. Anne’s!
-Roberta Â
Administration
Admin Name:
Vivien Tsu Â
Admin Position:
Office Administrator Â
Phone:
Admin Email:
Click here to contact Vivien Tsu Â
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St Anne's Anglican Church Service Times
Sunday:
8:30am Eucharist
10am Eucharist
Wednesdays:
10am Eucharist
Join us for Sunday Worship via Zoom at 10 am
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8:30am Eucharist
10am Eucharist
Wednesdays:
10am Eucharist
Join us for Sunday Worship via Zoom at 10 am
https://zoom.us/j/94931144946
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Prayers and Hymns
Main Bible:
New Revised Standard Version Â
Hymns and Songs:
Common Praise & Voices United Â
Other information
St Anne's Anglican Church History
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I ask for...
I ask you neither for health nor for sickness, for life nor for death; but that you may dispose of my health and my sickness, my life and my death, for your glory... You alone know what is expedient for me; you are the sovereign master, do with me according to your will. Give to me, or take away from me, only conform my will to yours. I know but one thing, Lord, that it is good to follow you, and bad to offend you. Apart from that, I know not what is good or bad in anything. I know not which is most profitable to me, health or sickness, wealth or poverty, nor anything else in the world. That discernment is beyond the power of men or angels, and is hidden among the secrets of your providence, which I adore, but do not seek to fathom.
St Anne's Anglican Church listing was last updated on the 18th of October, 2020
