Our Rector
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GENERAL INFORMATION
FULL NAME:
Henry Peter Jansma
BORN WHEN AND WHERE:
Passaic, NJ.
Age - Younger than my pocket watch!
FAMILY STATS:
Wife – Barbara
Sons - John, Nic
HOW I MET MY WIFE:
At church – she was already there.
HOW I BECAME A CHRISTIAN:
Through a Chick Tract: This Was Your Life
FAVORITES
MUSIC:
Piano Jazz: Bill Evans, Theolonius Monk, Jessica
Williams, Marian McPartland, Dave Peck
WORSHIP SONG(s):
Samuel Crossman’s My song is love unknown, Dan Schutte’s I, the Lord of Sea and
Sky, Matt Redman’s Blessed be
Your Name,
Sir Hubert Parry’s I was Glad
TV SHOW(s):
It must have “Star Trek” or “Laurel and Hardy” in the title.
been fantastic!
ACTOR/ACTRESS:
Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins
PLACES(s):
Bonaire with Barbara, Lincoln Cathedral, Daffodil fields in the fens
of Southeastern Lincolnshire, The New Globe Theatre in London, The “thinking
place” under the cedar tree up the mountain near where I grew up.
FOOD:
New York Cheesecake with a deep rich dark mug of coffee, any Samuel Smith’s
Ale, oops, I mean Assam, Ceylon or Kenyan Tea!
DAY OF THE WEEK:
Fridays with Barbara
BOOK(s) OF THE BIBLE:
Joshua, Ephesians, Philippians
BIBLE CHARACTER:
Joshua
VERSE(s):
Joshua 1:8, 9 & John 10:10
WHEN I HAVE DEVOTIONS:
Morning. I fall asleep at night
WHAT I DO IN DEVOTIONS:
Read scripture and pray, journal
AUTHORS:
John Calvin, Richard Baxter, George Herbert, John Flavel, Sinclair Ferguson, Tim Keller, DA Carson, Bill Hybels, PG Wodehouse, William Shakespeare, JRR Tolkein. And if you’re clergy and you’ve not read Jim Collins, you’ve sinned!
INTERNET SITE(s):
St. Mary’s!!!!!
A Third Way
The Gospel Coalition
The White Horse Inn
Willow Creek Association
HOW I SPEND MY FREE TIME:
Swimming, reading/learning, did I say swimming? more learning, movies,
chess, more movies, at a Shakespeare play, music/podcasts/web stuff, motivating
and helping others to transition a declining/plateaued Episcopal church into
a healthy/growing church
PERSONAL PROJECT I CAN’T WAIT TO FINISH:
See every Shakespeare play LIVE, write a book
PRIZED POSSESSIONS:
A framed page of Acts 9 from the first printing, first edition of the 1611 King James Bible and a framed page of Acts 1 from a 1599 edition of the Geneva Bible.
BIGGEST DREAM:
To see St. Mary’s church family be an Acts 2:42-47 church in 15
years
IF I WEREN’T
A PRIEST MY DREAM JOB WOULD BE:
A tie between being a director for the Royal Shakespeare Company and
any job at Apple’s Cupertino Headquarters
BEST ADVICE
I’VE RECEIVED:
"Thine excellencies whatever they are, are borrowed from ChriSt."
WORST ADVICE I’VE RECEIVED:
"Try it. It tastes like chicken."
I WOULD LIKE TO LIVE:
In a house next to a 24/7 library, a 24/7 Starbucks, a 24/7 jazz club,
and a park with 24/7 chess!
I WOULD LIKE TO SAY TO ST. MARY’S
CHURCH:
Just think, isn’t it so cool that what we do has ETERNAL SIGNIFICANCE???!!!!!!
