Fr. Rick Wendell As a thirty-year old carpenter and soon to be married, Rick was involved in a construction accident that left him clinically dead for nearly three hours. During that time he had an out of body experience. Later, on an unplanned trip with his mother to Medjugorje, our Lord appeared to him as The Good Shepard and asked him to become a priest. Rick entered the Seminary, and began a long and arduous road to the priesthood. Fr. Rick was ordained in May 2006, in Milwaukee Wisconsin, and is now associate pastor at Holy Angels Parish in West Bend, Wisconsin.