When Shammah Anu showed up at Saint Mark’s Anglican Church in Guadalajara in the summer of 2018, nobody, including her, guessed that she would eventually become a pivotal leader in the small church, founded in 1967. Nor that everyone would feel so sad when she announced in summer 2025 that work was taking her permanently to the Toronto area.
Anu, educated in electronics and communication engineering, came here while in her twenties from Chennai, formerly Madras, in southern India, a prominent city in that country’s IT landscape. But it was her background as a daughter of two ordained Methodist ministers that led her to immediately seek out a church home in Guadalajara.
She explains that moving was nothing new to her, since she had moved with her parents so many times, as they went as missionaries founding churches in large and small communities. Relocating to villages where Christians were not welcome could be dangerous, she explains, perhaps adding to her resilience.
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