Meet Our Seminarian: Linda Istad Brandt

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Please join us after the 11 a.m. service this Sunday, October 18, to hear from our new seminarian, Linda Istad Brandt, a second year student at General Theological Seminary. She comes from a lifetime of public health nursing. In the introduction, you can expect to hear her 70 year long saga of family roots which informs and sends her from the Diocese of Minnesota on a path toward ordination. You will hear about her call and her hopes and dreams to serve the marginalized when she returns to Minnesota in May. Her story includes St. Vincent’s Hospital NYC, Russia, and the Rural AIDS Action Network.

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