[Magdalen] Rejoicing

[Jo Craddock]

Isn't it a small, Episcopal world. Here we are at St. James BR with 
Lynn's former dean as our interim, and our former rector, Mark+, at 
Jay's parish...

I wish Mark+ and All Saints' all the best.

Peace,
Jo

On 02/14/2017 2:50 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> Sorry to say it, Christopher, but yes.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 2:37 PM Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
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>> 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.
>>
>>
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>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>
>>
>>> 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
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>>> the road in Newport, TN.
>>> So all seems well there at last!
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>> --
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>>
>> Christopher Hart
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