Good Shepherd, Granbury, calls new priest

The Rev. Suzi Robertson, D.Min, has been called by the vestry of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Granbury, and appointed by the Rt. Rev. Rayford B. High, Jr., provisional bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, as priest-in-charge. Robertson will begin on July 16, 2015.

Everyone is invited to her inaugural Sunday worship service at 9:30am July 19, 2015. She will be officially installed by a bishop in the fall of 2015. Good Shepherd is at 2016 Acton Hwy., Granbury, TX 76049.

“We will be building on the best of the faithful, successful, and historic past of Good Shepherd.  I am very excited,” Robertson said.

Robertson is a Texan. She was ordained by the Rt.  Rev. Don Adger Wimberly, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, and served in the Diocese of Texas as assistant rector, Trinity, Galveston, and rector at St. Luke the Evangelist, Houston. She served in the Diocese of Northwest Texas as the head of St. John’s Episcopal School, Abilene, and then as vicar and rector of Good Samaritan Episcopal Church, Sammamish, WA, Diocese of Olympia.

She holds four theological degrees – a Bachelor’s Degree in Religious Studies from St. Edward’s University, Austin; a Masters in Religious Education with a Specialty in Liturgics, University of St. Thomas, Houston; a Master of Divinity, Houston Graduate School of Theology, Houston; and a Doctor of Ministry, Southern Methodist University, Dallas. She has taught at the Houston Graduate School of Theology, Houston; and St. Philips Theological School, Kongwa, Tanzania, East Africa, in the areas of administration and leadership, children’s ministry and Bible. Robertson is a member of the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia. She retired and moved to Stephenville in January 2015.

While serving in a bedroom community of Seattle, she took on a struggling mission church with a large debt. In five years under her leadership the congregation had retired most of the debt and brought the church to parish status. In the diocese of Olympia, she was the chair of the Commission on Schools and served on the Standing Committee and the Committee on Resolutions.