AREV this Sunday & coming events
  
SUNDAY, 26 May, 11:30 AM
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AREV Children’s play group
Anna Artushyan from Oxford will lead this sesssion
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Arev Children’s Play Group -- for Pre-School to 7 years old children at St. Sarkis Church -- is an exciting hour of fun through Armenian songs, storytelling and activities. Parents’ participation is essential. 11:30 am Programme in the Nevart Gulbenkian Hall; 12:30-12:45 children and parents attend church service. (see video)
For more information please call or text Shakeh Major Tchilingirian, Programme Director, 07968 446223 or email info@stsarkislondon.org
* Lahmajoun for lunch prepared by St. Sarkis Ladies Committee will be available for purchase.
Lecture/Book Launch
Tuesday, 11 June, 7:30 PM, Nvart Gulbenkian Hall
"Vartan of Nazareth"
Missionary and Medical Pioneer in the Nineteenth-century Middle East
A talk and book presentation by author Malcolm Billings and John Vartan
Vartan of Nazareth is the little-known story of a medical pioneer and missionary who founded a hospital in Nazareth 150 years ago. This book traces the remarkable life of Pacradooni Kaloost Vartan, the son of a poor Armenian tailor in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul). Born in 1835 at a time of great change in the Ottoman Empire, the young Vartan attended the first American missionary school in the imperial city. He left school to join the British Army as an interpreter in the Crimea and, having witnessed the rigours of battlefield medicine, he was drawn to a career as a surgeon and physician. The book recounts the story of his time in Edinburgh as a missionary medical student, his marriage to Mary Anne, a daughter of the Manse and, with the ink hardly dry on the marriage certificate, the young couple's departure for Palestine. The book also tells of Vartan's legacy after his death in 1908 and follows the development of the hospital through the turbulent times of the First World War, the British Mandate and the birth of modern Israel. Against all odds the hospital survived. It is still registered in Scotland and, in a remarkable link with the past, the founder's great grand-son, John Vartan, is actively involved.
Malcolm Billings has spent most of his career broadcasting and producing Radio 4 and BBC World Service programmes. He presented the Today programme during the 1970s. He has also contributed from many parts of the world to Radio 4 From Our Correspondent and was producer and presenter of the BBC World Service Heritage programme for 15 years. Other of his publications include: The Crusades, the War Against Islam, 1096 1798 (2006); Queen's College: 150 Years and a New Century (2000); London: A Companion to its History and Archaeology (1994); The English: The Making of a Nation From 430 1700 (1991); The Cross and the Crescent: A History of the Crusades(1988).
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For further information, please contact St. Sarkis Church Parish - email:stsarkisparish@armenianchurch.co.uk; Tel: 0207 937 0152
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