Comments on: How Canon Hugh Puxley motivated my life https://anglicanjournal.com/how-canon-hugh-puxley-motivated-my-life/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Mon, 10 Feb 2020 19:07:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Janet Regis https://anglicanjournal.com/how-canon-hugh-puxley-motivated-my-life/#comment-31479 Mon, 10 Feb 2020 19:07:26 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=162813#comment-31479 My family and I were privileged to know Canon Puxley at Christ Church Stouffville where he was a pastor for many years. Our three sons, my husband and I were blessed to have been there while Canon Puxley served his last years before retiring with his wife, Mary. We were part of an Outreach organization at Christ Church educating the congregation in ways to be sensitive to others of different races and means. …in Stouffville, Canada and other countries around the world. You are right about Canon Puxley’s personality and ablility to engage others. This was about 1983. I remember a sermon that he gave, his last I believe at Christ Church, in which he compared the scientific creation of the earth and the Christian story, saying that the two were not incompatible. This was a relavation for me, having come from a scientific but Christian family, cementing the Christian story in my mind. Our family, especially our three sons attended Sunday School and became members of the Anglican Church of Canada. My husband, Henry, emigrated from Trinidad, having grown in the Anglican church there. We and Canon and Mrs. Puxley became fast friends. Such wonderful memories and stories we heard about their travels especially to Inida and how happy they were there.
We have not heard about their retirement to the East Coast Canada, but they have always been in our thoughts and prayers. This article was sent by our son Mark who has become an Anglican minister, lately of St. Paul’s Bloor St. for 7 years and now heading his own church, St. Martha and St. Mary’s in west end Toronto. Thank you so much for posting your time with Canon Puxley. God bless.

]]> By: Tim Chesterton https://anglicanjournal.com/how-canon-hugh-puxley-motivated-my-life/#comment-31477 Mon, 10 Feb 2020 17:26:32 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=162813#comment-31477 This is a beautiful reflection, Wayne. I met him much later, in his capacity as (volunteer) warden of the Church Army Training College in Toronto. I was a student there 1976-78. He took a keen interest in the life of the college and the lives of all the students. I remember him as a humble and devoted servant of Christ and a deeply loving man. I also remember a Church Army conference at Elim Lodge in the late 70s or early 80s where he gave some excellent devotional talks on Philippians.

Also, he never talked about his academic laurels, but one of my fellow students used to remind us of them by referring to him as ‘Doctor Doctor Doctor Doctor Puxley’!

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