section_path: Career
section_name: Career
paragraph_text: Career
  
  Budde worked in urban ministry in Arizona and then as a missionary in Honduras before joining the clergy. She was accepted as a postulant in the Episcopal Church at the age of 24. She was ordained as a deacon on May 28, 1988, and as a priest on March 4, 1989. Her first position after seminary was as assistant rector at Trinity Episcopal Church in Toledo, Ohio. She became rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1993, and served 18 years in that position. Budde has frequently cited the miracle of the loaves and fish as the foundation of her ministry.
  
  Budde worked in urban ministry in Arizona and then as a missionary in Honduras before joining the clergy. She was accepted as a postulant in the Episcopal Church at the age of 24. She was ordained as a deacon on May 28, 1988, and as a priest on March 4, 1989. Her first position after seminary was as assistant rector at Trinity Episcopal Church in Toledo, Ohio. She became rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1993, and served 18 years in that position. Budde has frequently cited the miracle of the loaves and fish as the foundation of her ministry.