[Magdalen] Happy news!

[Ginga Wilder]

Meg, this is indeed happy news!  I have to echo other's thoughts that your
Mama would be among the happiest at this news and the events taking place
in your life.  Congratulations and Alleluia!

Ginga


On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So happy for you Meg, and your late mama would surely be ecstatic.​ I hope
> that being done with school will give you more time to participate in this
> list, but being a new rector may offset the time benefits.
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Rev. Meg Wagner <revmegwagner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I am overjoyed to share with you that I received the Standing Committee's
> > approval for ordination to the priesthood on 3pm June 21 at Trinity in
> Iowa
> > City! My husband was jokingly petulant because it is Father's Day - the
> one
> > day that is supposed to be all about him :-) I told him we should swap
> > Mother's and Father's Day this year...
> >
> > And I have accepted a call to serve as Interim Rector at St. Peter's in
> > Bettendorf, Iowa beginning July 1. It is about an hour commute but my
> > family is committed to staying in Coralville until my youngest graduates
> > high school in 3 years so this lets us do that. I'll be coming in after a
> > 16+ year rector and am attending the Interim Ministry Network training
> this
> > summer. The parish is 50 years old and the building was built in the
> early
> > 60s and has some unique artistic features...including a marble altar that
> > extends out of a huge marble rock and the other "leg" of the altar is an
> > almost two story twisty metal cross. A far cry from the historic registry
> > places I have been serving - my sponsoring parish is 150 years old and my
> > field Ed site is 176. I posted a few pics of St. Peter's here:
> > https://flickr.com/photos/132130662@N06/sets/72157651857216119 if you
> are
> > curious.
> >
> > I have just ONE. LAST. PAPER to finish for seminary that is due May 6 and
> > then I am DONE! I am looking forward to heading out to graduation in
> > Cambridge with my husband and youngest son. Oldest son will have to miss
> as
> > he will be wrapping up his semester at Luther College.
> >
> > Exciting times!
> > Blessings,
> > Meg Wagner
>
>
>
>
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>
> Christopher Hart
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