[Magdalen] Epiphany

[Christopher Hart]

Ginga,

I'm guessing/hoping that your comment about anyone your bishop would have
approved was in time past and a previous bishop.

On Thursday, January 7, 2016, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Prayers, Judy. You have my sympathy, empathy and crossed fingers.  I was on
> a search committee that made the wrong choice, but anyone our bishop would
> have accepted was gonna be a wrong choice.
>
> Blessings,
> Ginga
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > Oh dear.  Prayers ascending!
> >
> > Marion, a pilgrim
> >
> >
> > On 1/7/2016 10:21 AM, Judy Fleener wrote:
> >
> >> :Please pray that we at St. Paul's, Muskegon have not picked
> incorrectly.
> >> Not only are we experiencing discomfort with a change in liturgical
> >> styles,
> >> but also a seeming inability to get work done in a timely fashion.
> >>
> >> And I was on the search committee.  This priest was not my first choice,
> >> but our first choice refused the position and  several people on the
> >> committee were sold on this candidate.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Roger Stokes <
> >> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com <javascript:;>>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 05/01/2016 21:04, Clarissa Canning wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Is he a clone type of her, I really loath Bishops who only care about
> >>>> their
> >>>> clergy clones and think all churches should be only run by them.
> >>>>
> >>>> It also ignores the fact that we are (thank God!) different and that
> >>> different worship styles appeal to and nurture different people.  St
> Paul
> >>> recognized that people differ, and that none are to be thought the
> worse
> >>> of
> >>> for that.  What works in one place or one church will not necessarily
> >>> work
> >>> in another.  I recall going to a Church Growth seminar over 30 years
> ago
> >>> where various techniques for growing the parish were put forward. They
> >>> all
> >>> assumed a certain type and size of church, which did not describe
> where I
> >>> was then ministering.  To the Bishop's surpise I turned it from decline
> >>> to
> >>> growth in what was regarded as an unpromising situation.
> >>>
> >>> Roger
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
>


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Christopher Hart

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