From Savannah-
“Success is not defined by how far away you can get from home.” So says the Rev. J. Sierra Wilkinson, and she ought to know. Her path to the pulpit has taken her to Africa (twice), through Harvard Divinity School and now to within a few miles of where she grew up, as the new assistant rector at Christ Church Episcopal.
Wilkinson, who is African American, earned her Master of Divinity degree at Harvard this May, and the Savannah posting is the first position in her clerical career. It lands her at a congregation that is largely white and rooted in Old Savannah, and one that is caught up in a bitter denominational schism — but she said the church has greeted her warmly. “Christ Church has been so welcoming and so willing to embrace me,” she said. “Michael (the Rev. Michael White, rector of Christ Church Episcopal) has such a non-anxious approach and he has such a prayerful attitude.”
“I feel excited about the situation that this church is in, within the moment, with what they are doing at a very difficult time. They are learning about being a church without a building,” she said.
More here-
http://savannahnow.com/accent/2011-11-26/passion-ministry#.TtDdv2DMcVk
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