[Magdalen] Updates...

[Marion Thompson]

Many/Most organists I know have gone where the work is and not necessarily
to their personal denomination.

Marion, a pilgrim

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 10:03 AM Sheila Ketler <debbiedimond52 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So I guess I didn't specify this is actually an Anglican church...!! and I
> attend that church but I go on a day when they do not have music... It may
> be a bit stressful and I was surprised with the way they were doing the
> music... They use Gather (a Catholic resource) I have one of those and
> Voices United (I no longer own one of those I sold it to someone on
> Anglican Music many moons ago after I got fired from a United Church...) I
> know both resources... The trouble is we closed 5 Anglican parishes this
> round of closures (2016) and in 2004 or 5 we closed another 4 or 5 so there
> are very few Anglican churches now and jobs are few and far between...
>
> Sheila
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 6:53 AM Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Sheila,
> > I am thankful your blood pressure has responded to new treatment.  Keep
> > that up!
> >
> > Also, as I read your note about the differences in theological
> perspectives
> > and also what seems to be worship practices, I wondered if working in
> such
> > a church would be overly stressful to you.  What you have described
> sounds
> > to me to be a more pentecostal, evangelical foundational theology in this
> > church.
> >
> > I'm just sayin'.  And, I certainly may be simply making a kneejerk
> > judgment.
> >
> > Good luck with this.
> > Ginga
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 9:43 AM Sheila Ketler <debbiedimond52 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings everyone
> > > I don't have to visit the internal medicine clinic now... The blood
> > > pressure seems to have settled down with the new medications.
> > > I did an interview/audition on Saturday - not sure what they thought
> > about
> > > me. I was very nervous and they asked me some very difficult
> questions...
> > > They asked how my faith affected my music ministry? that was one I
> found
> > it
> > > hard to answer... as faith to me is deeply personal.. and I lean
> towards
> > > Jewish teachings - I have just read through the 5 books of Moses... now
> > at
> > > the end of Deuteronomy...I began doing that some time ago when I
> studied
> > > Judaism as my world religion credit... I joined Jewish websites and
> never
> > > left...
> > > The problem for me and this is what I think will mean they hire someone
> > > else is the woman they had working there sang into the microphone...
> > well I
> > > don't sing and no way would I ever consider singing into a mike so I
> > think
> > > I lost my chance by admitting that but I was not going to lie about
> > > it...and with a 15 voice choir and a praise team I feel as if my
> playing
> > > for them should be enough...Anyway just updating everyone... I don't
> know
> > > how many they actually were interviewing.. and I did ask that and they
> > said
> > > they would not say.. That raised another red flag...
> > >
> > > Blessings to all
> > >
> > > Sheila
> > >
> >
>