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Let my teaching fall
like rain and my
words descend like
dew, like showers on
new grass,
like abundant rain on
tender plants.
Deuteronomy 32:2
Christ, who did not know what I knew. It lit a fire in me. I said then, this was what I wanted to do. I was told no, I could marry a minister but women couldn’t be ministers. I went to a Catholic college. Many nuns were teachers. Some of the sisters left the Catholic Church to the Episcopal Church to be ordained as priests,” DeLong remembered.
The Methodist Church, like the Episcopal Church, to which it is historically and doctrinally • related, has ordained women as ministers for half a century now. Is it unusual in Rappahannock? Brady says “those of us in Flint Hill have just been delighted. I’m sure some traditionalists wanted a man, but let me tell you this lady is a lady of God. You can use her sermons to not only understand the gospel but relate it to everyday life.”
Brady went on that the Reverend is, “just a busy, busy lady, even parishioners who were here years ago and are away in assisted living, she goes and talks to them, though she never knew them before.” DeLong spends a lot of time on the road during the week visiting parishioners in surrounding hospitals. “Parishioners from these three churches use hospitals in Fauquier, Warrenton, Charlottesville and Culpeper, so there is a lot of driving,” she related, when asked
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