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Vol 8 No 2 - March 2003  
 

The Bishop's Lent Call 2003
 

A Pastoral Letter from Bishop Tom

My Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I am writing to commend this year's Lent Call to you. Lent is a time of preparation for the great gift of Christ himself at Easter. As we prepare to receive this gift, it is fitting that we should deny ourselves and give to others.

Five projects from around the world have been selected to benefit from money raised by this. They are:

  • New School building at Aiome Anglican High School, Papua New Guinea
  • St Michael & All Angels, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa school building project
  • Thanarbaid Village Health Project - Bangladesh
  • Neutral Ground Child Contact Centre - Abbey Wood and, in recognition of our links there,
  • A number of projects for the Dioceses of Zimbabwe

Many people in material need will receive material benefits as a result of the Call. I hope that you will join your prayers with mine to make this Lent also a time of true spiritual benefit.

With best wishes Grace and peace

+ Thomas Southwark
 

How Toby the cat will help the Lent Call

To sell off the family paintings and donate all the proceeds to The Bishop's Lent Call is quite something - especially when the family consists of renowned artists.

drawing

But that is exactly what Julia Rhys, a member of Christ Church (East Sheen) Choir - and wife of the choirmaster, will be doing each Sunday until Easter. Julia's parents were the Royal Academician, Cosmo Clark (1897-1967), and Jean Clark (1902-1999), who, like her husband, was also a member of the New English Art Club and Royal Watercolour Society. Both were prolific artists throughout their lives - Cosmo even managed to find time to make sketches when soldiering in France during the First World War.

In fact they were so prolific that when Julia asked her family (she has five children) to choose which paintings and drawings they liked best, there were still very many left over after each had taken their pick. These are the works that will be on sale at truly knock-down prices. "We really don't have the space to do them justice", explains Julia, "I just hope they will find good homes".

The works on sale include portraits and landscapes in oil and watercolour as well as charcoal sketches ranging from street scenes in St Tropez to Toby the cat, lapping milk (above).

"A Sale of the Works of Cosmo Clark and Jean Clark", St Andrews Room, Christ Church, Christ Church Road, East Sheen SW14. 11am-1pm on each Sunday in Lent: (9/16/23/30 March; 6/13 April) and on Easter Sunday 20 April. (viewing by appointment only Julia Rhys: 020 8876 8521).

All proceeds will be donated to the Bishop's Lent Call.

Where the money will go...

 
 
March 2003
 
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