Bishop Stephen Lake has for some years held a competition for groups of people within the diocese to create an artwork to adorn his cards.
‘It’s an annual competition to choose the bishop’s Christmas card for the year,’ said Vale Church lay pastoral assistant and Anna chaplain Beverley Linnecor, who arranged for the residents of the home to get involved.
‘He’s had schoolchildren and people from all around the diocese decorate ones before, but he hadn’t ever used Guernsey, or people from a residential home,’ she said.
As an Anna chaplain, Mrs Linnecor has taken on the role of helping to attend the spiritual and emotional needs of people in later life, as part of the national ministry charity BRF Ministries.
Mrs Linnecor arranged the Christmas project in conjunction with Gardenia Lodge’s activities coordinator, who then facilitated the residents’ creation of four different festive card designs based around the Bishop Stephen’s 2025 theme of joy.
‘The residents were all delighted to be chosen – they thought it was just a privilege and pleasure to be selected by the Bishop,’ she said.
‘They were thrilled when I told them that the bishop had chosen one of their cards.’
The bishop’s cards are sent out annually to more than 1,000 recipients.
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