A piece of history as told by one of the senior church members:
"The first service held in our little church was on Christmas Day 1938 which means that this year's anniversary (2016) will be the 78th. To put it in historical context, the world was at war a few months later and our Capelry was not spared worry and even lost but here we are, a thriving Christian community, so many years later, thanks be to God.
My Dutch Reformed ouma told me that there were enthusiastic door-to-door collections for the original Building Fund (some things never change ...) and that she had also given a contribution towards the building of the 'Engelse Kerkie'. The following year her sons were in Air Force in the North African Campaign, fighting against the Germans on the side of the King, the earthly 'head' of the 'Engelse Kerkie'!
The building, THE FIRST CHURCH BUILDING IN JBAY, was originally a rectangular construction with a corrugated iron roof, and it was erected under the supervision of Mr C Turner and Mr W Pell (the father of the late Jeffrey, whom many people in Jeffreys Bay still remember well). It was consecrated by Bishop Arichibald Cullen in May 1941. The Rector of St Mark's, the Rev P W E Woodward was responsible for this Capelry too."