[Magdalen] around our house

[Ginga Wilder]

Ann, that Holy Week is one of our favorite memories.  Ginny was with us and
had just officially spoken her sense of call to ordained ministry.  Holy
Time.  Completely loved spending it with you, Judy, and Bill+.  This must
be the longest mini listmeet on record.

Ginga




On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
>