[Magdalen] Rejoicing

[Christopher Hart]

Jay,

I'm just wondering, without mentioning names, whether the priest who made
such a mess is the one that they called from my diocese with such glowing
reports and high hopes at the time. I know we corresponded about her at the
time.
 That was quite a while back so it may have been someone else after her.
Just curious.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have neglected to mention that my former parish, All Saints', Morristown,
> TN (with which I am still in touch) recently called a new priest. This is
> after several years of turmoil following the retirement of the last one,
> who left the place in a financial mess and precipitated a serious
> membership decline. (She was pretty much responsible for that, as well as
> the financial mess) The place was kept going with the help of interims,
> Deacons Jim and Gigi Sharp (about whom more in a moment), and a dedicated
> core of members. At one point in their search process they were given
> permission by the bishop to extend a call to their then-interim, but he
> threw a spanner into the works just as they were about to do so by
> announcing that he had accepted another interim appointment, so they had to
> start over from scratch! That was almost 2 years ago. But at last they have
> a priest, the Rev. Mark Holland. He arrived about three weeks ago.
>
> In the meantime, during that incredibly interminable interim, a couple of
> things happened. One was that a longtime friend, Sarai Wender, who I've
> known since she arrived there as a somewhat wild teenager and who I watched
> grow up, settle down, get married, and become a nurse and the mother of two
> delightful young ladies (now grown), studied and has become a vocational
> deacon. (As aside note, this is at least the 4th person I know from the
> healing professions who has gone that route...it seems a natural one!) And,
> as kind of a punctuation to the whole thing, Jim and Gigi Sharp, after
> incredibly long journeys through the diaconate (Jim's lasted, if I am
> counting correctly, over 20 years), were ordained to the priesthood just
> before Christmas and Jim has been assigned as PIC to the small church down
> the road in Newport, TN.
>
> So all seems well there at last!
>



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Christopher Hart

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