Priest

We would like to welcome Rev. Amelia Hagen as our interim priest.  Rev. Hagen joined us in September 2007.

Amelia Hagen

Biographical Sketch

Amelia was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts at Fort Banks Army Hospital.  Her early years were spent following her Dad to various army posts in Massachusetts, Georgia, and Panama.  Her mother's family was from Nashua, New Hampshire and it was there her family, including six sibling, finally settled and where she graduated from High School.   After a disastrous year at M.I.T., she finally graduated from Boston University with a degree in Chemistry.  It was during this time that she became an Episcopalian.  While in Boston she married Ken Hagen, a native Californian, and two years later they moved to the Los Angeles area, where her two children, Karl and Amelia, were born.  Ken and Amelia are divorced.  Amelia has not remarried.

Amelia had an interest in nuclear chemistry and mathematics from the time she was in high school and her first job was for New England Nuclear, a company that makes radiopharmaceuticals.  After moving the California, working, and getting a Masters in Public Health at UCLA, Amelia started applying mathematics to environmental and occupational health matters, a career she followed for 30 years.

While working for the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, she was active in the Anglican Church there and she felt a call to serve God in some way.  It was only after her return to the U. S. and a number of years of saying, "No" to the call, that she finally realized that she was being called to serve parishes during their interim period.  After seminary, she took special interim training with the Interim Ministry Network and Appreciative Interim Ministry (the use of Appreciative Inquiry in a parish's interim time).  She has served as interim pastor in four parishes:  Trinity (in Alpena, Michigan), Holy Trinity (in Gillette, Wyoming), Christ Church (in Sausalito, California) and St. Andrew's (in Millinocket, Maine).

Amelia enjoys hiking, cross country skiing, cooking, reading, playing the recorder, singing, and icon painting.  She has a two-year old grandson, Aran.  She dotes on Aran and her Lhasa Apso, Isabelle.  Isabelle loves coffee hour at church, because she thinks any cookie crumb that hits the floor is hers.  Isabelle love road trips.

Deacons

We have several deacons in the Good Shepherd Church:

Anne Hunter

The Rev. Dr. Anne Hunter first came to Maine in 1975 for the residency program in Family Practice at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.  After a few years practicing in Kingfield, she moved her practice to Rangeley in 1985.  A "cradle Episcopalian", she immediately got involved in the life of the Good Shepherd, eventually serving on the vestry and as a Chalice Bearer and a Lay Eucharistic Minister.  In 1991 she moved to Portland to work in long term care and later hospice, returning to Rangeley and the Good Shepherd most weekends.  Her work in hospice led hr to a deep interest in the spiritual aspects of the dying process, and as she anticipated retirement, she experienced a call to the diaconate.  She was ordained a deacon in June 2006.  Now retired from medicine, she divides her year between Rangeley and Charlottesville, Virginia.  During her half year in Rangeley she is eager to participate in hospice chaplaincy, pastoral care, and of course the liturgy.

John Dill

Although Deacon John Dill is licensed in New Jersey, he is a wonderful addition to our church.  He spends the summers in Rangeley and has helped out with services for many years.  John feels his role is one of a servant and he prefers to not have a bio or a picture on the website.

Clergy in Training

Ben Wetherill