[Magdalen] around our house

[Ann Markle]

Judy, congratulations to Bill (and to you). Well done, good and faithful
servants! You make Muskegon sound so exciting. Ginga's reply to you made me
think of all those years ago when the Fleeners and the Wilders joined me in
Tennessee for Holy Week. Now I’m having my first Holy Week with this new
parish, and it will be much the same as it was there: EP & Stations
Tuesday, Tenebrae Wednesday, Agape Meal, Eucharist, & Stripping of the
Altar Thursday, Good Friday Liturgy on Friday, Great Vigil on Saturday, and
Eucharist for Easter on Sunday. No music, though, which just doesn’t seem
right!

Hope you have great adventures planned, but wish you were here!

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 8:11 AM Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com> wrote:

>  It is still quite cold and blustery in Western Michigan.  Our congregation
> is in its third search in ten years after a 5 year and a 2 1/2 year
> incumbency.  Neither priest gave us much.  We are an aging congregation in
> the rust belt.  Now we are searching for a 3/4 time priest.
>
> Construction is booming in the center of Muskegon.  There are 6 projects
> visible from my window.  In 1971 the center of the city was leveled to
> build an enclosed mall.  The mall was dismantled in the late 90s and
> downtown Muskegon became a desert.  We live in one of the few buildings
> left standing, a YMCA rehabbed into apartments and then condos.  Across
> from us is a development of townhouses.  11 at this date all occupies
> except two under construction.  Nest to us is an 80 unit building with some
> senior housing some market rate.  Two other larger building opening soon,
> one and 8 story bank building and the other a 6 story. Because our
> population grows in the summer, the city erected 8 small shed/shacks,
> called chalets to rent to small retailer for the summer.  This was so
> successful last summer, four more are being built.
>
> Bill and I (but I picked) just bought a Jeep Renegade, bright yellow.  I
> now have a pink streak in my hair.  I must be 80.  I am.
>
> On Easter Day Bill will leave active ministry,  He has been serving a
> congregation 50 miles from here as an every Sunday supply.  They are
> planning a wonderful celebration.  It is the time of his 87th birthday, his
> 64th anniversary of his ordination and his leaving this congregation.  All
> four of our sons are planning to be there.  One did express doubts, he
> posited that this might be an April Fool's joke.
>
>
> --
> Judy Fleener, ObJN,SSH
> Western Michigan
>
-- 
Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com