Meet Our Clergy

The Venerable June Hough

Bishop Bruce Howe appointed the Rev’d June Hough to be rector of ELAM, starting June 1, 2008. In May 2009, Bishop Bob Bennett announced the appointment of Rev. June as the Venerable June Hough, Archdeacon of Erie.

My family and I returned to London after moves that took us to Nova Scotia, Toronto and Ottawa. With each move I have had the blessing of ministering within diverse congregations in the Dioceses of Nova Scotia and Ottawa.

I was born in Kirkland Lake, which is a small mining town in Northern Ontario. My family moved often, but I finished high school (Montcalm) in London and attended Western receiving a BA in Phys. Ed. 

After attending Huron College, I was ordained in the Diocese of Huron in 1986. Following my curacy, I became incumbent of St. Peter’s in Dorchester. I had many blessings in Dorchester, one being it was there I met my husband.

It was in my former parish of St. John the Divine in Ottawa that I experienced much the same kind of transition ELAM has had. The parish had been built on rented land and a large increase in rent forced the congregation to make a decision to move to a higher density area in the south and hold worship in a school gym. Despite the difficulties of the move in terms of debt and loss of people, the parish recovered and moved forward. More than that, they discovered what it means to be church.

Through that, I am able to appreciate the journey ELAM is on. Walking out in faith is a courageous thing to do, yet in spite of the difficulties there is an excitement in that search for the promised land . . . then we realize it has been within us all along. 

God Bless,
June

Rev. Anne Jaikaran

I am a cradle Anglican, actually growing up next door to my home church back in Yorkshire, England, which I still visit every year when I go over to visit my Mum. She, in fact, was the one who modelled to me that belonging to a church meant much more than attending on Sundays and encouraged me to become actively involved in all aspects of church life from an early age.

After obtaining a degree in history and archaeology and a diploma in librarianship, I moved to my new husband’s land of birth – Guyana in South America, where we lived from 1981-91. During this time my church life came to a virtual standstill, but I kept my faith intact and my life busy raising three children and volunteering in the community through Rotary. 

In 1991 we immigrated to Canada, settling first in London where our fourth child was born, but then moving to Blenheim in '93 where I started back church involvement.

After a time I began working as a supply teacher with the local daycare, but by '99 was seriously considering what I really wanted to do with my life. I knew I wanted to do something faith-based and my first step in that direction was to take a hospital chaplaincy training course. From there I moved on to Huron University College in 2000 to study for my Master's in Theological Studies, which I then converted to a Masters in Divinity as I finally realised ordained ministry was where I wanted to be.

After graduating in 2006, I was not able to be ordained immediately because, as a now single parent, I was not prepared to uproot my two youngest children and move them out of London. In the interim I served in two very different parishes as Pastoral Assistant. Church of the Transfiguration is a church that has gone through some difficult times and now cannot afford a full-time minister. St John the Evangelist is a big thriving parish offering many programmes. Each church offered its own opportunities and challenges for ministry and I thoroughly enjoyed my time at both.

I arrived at ELAM in the fall of 2009 as the Deacon Assistant, and since my ordination to the priesthood in the spring of 2010, as the Assistant Priest. I believe all my experiences will only help me in serving you better at ELAM and I look forward to our ministry together.

Rev. Bruce Pocock

ELAM is Bruce's retirement project. He joined us as honourary associate priest in 2003 after serving for several years as the rector of Holy Trinity in the village of Lucan. Bruce entered ordained ministry at mid-career after working in property management. Among his work at ELAM, Bruce is a regular leader of the Wednesday morning worship service and the Bible study afterward.