Lighthouse
Family Worship Gathering
Sunday @ 10 am
A spirit-led, music-filled, relaxed,
joyful, and authentic 75-90 minute
contemporary family worship
gathering for all ages.
Fu Yin
中文福音礼拜
Sunday @ 12:00 pm
目前中文礼拜是以
YouTube视频形式进行，请联系余雅各传道了解更多信息。
Our Mandarin service is about learning God’s
word together through YouTube each
week. Contact Pastor James for more
information below.
WHO WE ARE & WHAT WE BELIEVE
Light On The Hill
St. John the Baptist Community Church
You may have come to this site because you are looking for a church to join, or because you are interested in finding out more about God, or perhaps you want to find out what we do to serve and impact the community around us here in Richmond Hill. Whatever your reason, you are at the right place!
Shedding Light
Upcoming events and programs in our church community
Meet Our Staff
Light On The Hill’s staff provides leadership, support, and encouragement to our community.
Reverend Orvin Lao
Lead Pastor
Orvin is the Lead Pastor of Light on the Hill. He is passionate about introducing Jesus to people, teaching the Bible, and sharing the good news of God’s new creation that is for everyone and the whole world. He loves to read, listen to podcasts, watch YouTube mini-documentaries, and play the guitar. He is married to Sally-Jane and they have two young children.
Adam Furfaro
Executive Director
Adam has been the Executive Director at Light On The Hill since 2016. He is passionate about finding new ways to bring the church to the neighbourhood, and the neighbourhood to the church. He loves to cook and you can often find him “out back” in our Community Garden.
Gervasio “Jerry” Caringi
Worship Leader
Jerry is an extremely gifted musician, composer, songwriter, producer, bandleader, pianist, and vocalist. At the age of four, Jerry started playing Accordion. Then started on Drums performing in his father’s Dance band at the age of Eight. 45 years later, he is one of the busiest musicians in the country. We are so excited to have him lead our Worship.
BUT WE CAN NOT FORGET ABOUT….
Our Volunteers
The real backbone of the church is our volunteers. It takes all kinds of people to make the community happen. Our Sunday gatherings are created live, by an amazing group of volunteers who make up our Media, Worship, First Impressions, Prayer, and Hospitality teams. Volunteers also lead our Kidtopia and Little Lights Children’s Ministry Teams, our Life Groups, and part of our Leadership Team.
Made up of our Churchwardens, the Incumbent, senior staff, some ministry leaders, and church elders, the leadership team sets and protects the mission of the church, ensures that the community has the resources it needs to operate effectively, and lends spiritual, fiduciary and strategic guidance to the Corporation in accordance with the Cannons of the Diocese.
Churchwardens: Mary Walsh (Rector’s Warden), and Martin Francis (People’s Warden)
IGNITE
Draw near to God and He will draw near you!
James 4:8
IGNITE is the name of our Children’s Ministry here at Light On The Hill. It is geared toward children who are 4-12 years old. We meet Sunday mornings at 10am to play, create, worship and learn about Jesus.