[Magdalen] Last Sunday as Senior Warden

[Ginga Wilder]

Photos are published on the Parish Life page of Good Shepherd's website.

http://www.episcopalchurchofgoodshep-summerville.org/parish-life.html

Ginga

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 1:03 AM, Rick Mashburn <ricklmashburn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> How wonderful, Ginga! What a great story of rebirth and resurrection!!!
> Thanks be to God!
>
> Peace, Rick
>
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Marion Thompson <
> marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Well done, good and faithful servant.  Many would have accepted the
> > situation, however sadly, and left it at that.
> >
> > Marion, a pilgrim
> >
> >
> > On 2/14/2016 2:10 PM, Ginga Wilder wrote:
> >
> >> Today was my last Sunday as organizing Senior Warden of The Episcopal
> >> Church of the Good Shepherd, Summerville, SC.  What a day it was!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Forty months ago, on October 21, 2012, a letter from Bishop Mark
> Lawrence
> >> was read in Episcopal churches across the Diocese of SC stating
> >> (erroneously) that we were no longer associated with The Episcopal
> Church.
> >> After years of intentional fracture, schism had finally come to the
> >> Episcopal Diocese of SC.  You all know what a grief that was to John and
> >> me
> >> and other faithful Episcopalians in SC.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> That very afternoon, seven Summerville Episcopalians gathered on
> friends’
> >> back porch and committed ourselves to reorganizing an Episcopal
> >> congregation from the local remnant.  And, we have done just that…not
> just
> >> me, not any one person, but the Body of Christ in this place, in this
> >> time.  My grief was morphed by my passion to reorganize an Episcopal
> >> congregation.  I was named senior warden.  All of us, the original
> seven,
> >> plus those who have joined us in those months to reform, rebuild,
> >> reestablish an Episcopal Church, now known as The Episcopal Church of
> the
> >> Good Shepherd, Summerville.   Good Shepherd is a mission church of The
> >> Episcopal Church in SC.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Lots of gift-giving today.  During worship, John and I presented a new
> >> banner that we had commissioned, a banner that speaks visually where
> Good
> >> Shepherd is today.  Then, I was stunned more than I have ever been in my
> >> entire life.  The congregation presented the church a hand crafted
> >> baptismal font in my honor.  Dave Comer, an architect and gifted
> furniture
> >> maker from our parish, made the mahogany stand and a glass artisan
> crafted
> >> the glass bowl.  The bowl has an amazing design…one can see the holy
> >> spirit
> >> moving in it.  I am blown away and unworthy and thankful beyond words
> and
> >> want to share that with you.  Photos will be posted on our webpage as
> soon
> >> as possible.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Rejoice with me that God has brought The Episcopal Church of the Good
> >> Shepherd to this day and has shed a light on the way into our future.
> We
> >> have wonderful new leadership coming on board.  The priest in charge has
> >> asked me to serve going forward as lay ministry coordinator.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks be to God!
> >>
> >> Ginga
> >>
> >>
> >
>