‘Sunflowers for Opac’ inspires clay sunflowers at St. John’s
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington, Baltimore MD, has been crafting clay sunflowers for several Lenten Sundays this year to offer to all in church on Easter Sunday as gifts of hope and love. Rev. Lori Babcock, the pastor, stated the following in St. John’s Epistle of April 1, 2010: “We will hand out decorative clay flowers as a symbol of our own new life and our support of the new life and hope for the resettled refugees of Opac Village, [northern]Uganda.”
OCHAN, touched and grateful for such creative and uplifting support, hope to carry some some of the clay beauties pictured here to the women leaders of the farmers in Opac. We will also carry the hope expressed as a blessing in the final lesson of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland’s 2010 Lenten Project, ‘Sunflowers for Opac’: May God give you of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain.” Genesis: 27.28.