AMERICUS —
Calvary Episcopal Church is happy to welcome the Reverend Frederick “Rick” Buechner, who will serve as Interim Rector for the next 12-18 months. Fr. Buechner comes to Calvary having retired from All Saints Episcopal of Thomasville in April of last year. He served there 24 years after having served at churches in Dublin, Savannah, and St. Simons Island. He attended Virginia Theological Seminary and was ordained priest in January of 1981. He and his wife Kathy, who is a teacher in Thomasville, live in Thomasville and are the parents of two grown children, both teachers. He is “delighted to be at Calvary,” and will reside in Americus Wednesdays-Sundays, along with his faithful yellow lab, Isabelle.
Throughout the Lenten season, Fr. Buechner will be leading programs that follow the 6 p.m. Wednesday Holy Eucharist and Healing service and a soup and bread dinner. February 20, the topic was “The Two Most Destructive Ways We Think about Jesus;” February 27, the program was “Predestination;” March 6, “Striving & Prevailing with God and Men: How Jacob became Israel,” presented by The Rev. Gavin Dunbar from St. John’s, Savannah, and March 13, Fr. Buechner will lead, “The Evolution of the English Bible.”
Thursday, March 21, the Bishop of the Diocese of Georgia, the Rt. Rev. Scott Benhase, will lead a 6 p.m. service and program entitled, “God’s Mercy, Our Compassion,” following dinner. He will remain in town through the weekend, and is scheduled to lead Palm Sunday services, when he will confirm 13 new communicants for Calvary.
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February 27, 2013
Calvary Episcopal happy to welcome new priest
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