Up until June, 2018--and for the past eighteen years---Mother Barbara Wilson has enjoyed serving as the Director of Spiritual Care and Chaplaincy at Memorial Hospital in South Bend, IN, where she supervised and ministered alongside a staff of six professional chaplains and a handful of Notre Dame field education students and some volunteers. "Irrepressible curiosity and a hunger to learn have been driving forces in my life, and I enjoy sharing what I’ve learned and care most about in teaching situations, " she says, "but my first love has always been parish ministry which provides such a rich and varied context in which to share and develop ongoing relationships with others eager to learn and live into our vocation as lovers of God and our neighbors, which is to say, as followers of Jesus Christ." Her wife, Lynne Jacobson, has earned a Master of Divinity degree from Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA where she specialized in peace and justice issues. Before EDS, Lynne studied and worked in Theatre Performance.
Mother Barbara's and Lynne's first Sunday at St. Paul's will be January 20, 2019. "We have family including grandchildren who live in greater Chicagoland area and it will be wonderful to be living closer to them. We are so very much looking forward to being with you all and a new chapter in all of our lives, there at St. Paul’s!"
