[Magdalen] around our house

[Jay Weigel]

Wow, Judy! The Fleenerdude will be 87? It's probably time for him to quit
active ministry and settle down to a pat-time gig, no?  But y'all are
rocking the 80s for sure! Congratulations, and enjoy!

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 11:57 AM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu>
wrote:

> 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
>