Just when the Rev. Canon Donald Muller thought he was out, they pulled him back in. The Episcopal priest and his wife, Lynn, had retired to Barnegat Township in July 2018. But that same month the Rev. Martha McKee, the vicar of Tuckerton’s Church of the Holy Spirit, retired and returned to her home state of Texas.

While Holy Spirit’s vestry began to search for a new vicar, services were officiated by a series of supply priests, most often the Rev. Dr. Walter Hartt.