Our church building, built in 1848, is the oldest surviving church in Richmond Hill. The historic name of our church is "St. John the Baptist, Oak Ridges" or as we are colloquially referred to as "St. John's". Our current name "Light on the Hill" refers to what William Bell, the former mayor of Richmond Hill, had described the church when he presented the church in 1998 a certificate commemorating our 150th anniversary of being "The Light On The Hill". The phrase was then adopted in 2017 as our church name and we are, by the power of the Holy Spirit, are striving to live up to what Jesus preached in His Sermon on the Mount: to be "the light of the world" and "a city on a hill".
Today, we are a growing and vibrant evangelical Anglican church, one parish among hundreds of others in the Anglican Diocese of Toronto. We are humbly and prayerfully living out and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of heaven on earth in and around Richmond Hill, for the glory of Jesus Christ. Come and be a part of what God is doing in our midst!