[Magdalen] Please pray

[Ginga Wilder]

Praying for a good farewell, Michael+, and a blessed future for you.  I can
imagine how difficult it is to let go of a legacy ministry to 8 churches.

The Lord bless you and keep you,
Ginga Wilder

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On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 6:56 AM, Eleanor Braun <eleanor.braun at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Congratulations on your retirement!  It's a wonderful time.
>
> And prayers for your parishes as they deal with a very different way of
> being church.  Will they at least have either an interim or supply priests?
>
> Eleanor
>
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 3:38 AM, Michael Bishop <rev at michaelbishop.name>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear All
> > I am quietly waiting to go across to church for my final celebration of
> > the Eucharist as a rector in my parishes as I retire from stipendiary
> > ministry this coming Thursday which is my 70th birthday. The service will
> > be a very special one - the congregations of my 8 parishes will be coming
> > together for this service and the numbers seem likely to be very large as
> > people who I would not have expected have been saying they will be here.
> > The last few weeks have made me feel like Frank Sinatra - with lots of
> > farewell visits and events.
> > .It will be hard to go - I have been here for almost 21 very happy years
> > -living here longer than anywhere else in my life - but the time is
> > unquestionably right. Please pray for me as I seek to settle into new
> ways
> > in my retirement home in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire and for the parishes I
> > will be leaving. They have a time of uncertainty as they await the
> Bishop's
> > decision on what the future will bring for them. It seems almost certain
> > that there will be a long inter-regnum as the diocese seems to see
> > vacancies as an opportunity to save  money from the budget. People find
> it
> > difficult to understand why there is as yet not even the beginnings of a
> > search for a new parish priest.
> > God bless us all.
> >
> > --
> > ....
> > ....
> > God bless
> >
> > Michael Bishop
> > rev at michaelbishop.name
> >
> > Rector of Boylestone, Church Broughton, Dalbury, Longford, Long Lane,
> > Sutton-on-the-Hill & Trusley
> >
> > Diocese of Derby, England
> >
> >
>