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Each year SKSM students serve Unitarian Universalist
congregations and community organizations throughout
North America to learn firsthand the practical arts
of ministry. The school’s internship program was
started in the 1950s by then-president Josiah Bartlett,
who believed in the school’s founding principle
of attention to the practical realities of ministry
and church life.
“The internship is an important time in students’
development for the ministry,” said Patti
Lawrence, Starr King’s Dean of Students and
Professor of Congregational Studies. “They’re
able to put themselves in a role they’ve been
studying for three years and experience not only the
work of a minister, but what it feels like, with all
its obligations, responsibilities and boundaries. An
internship also helps students define the ministerial
specialty that’s right for them.”
Since 1996, more than 100 SKSM students have participated
in the school’s parish internship program, a nine-month
commitment to Unitarian Universalist teaching congregations.
These students frequently contribute their own special
talents. They’ve created and taught classes in
poetry, drama, meditation, Buddhist studies and Unitarian
Universalist history. They’ve become involved
with local Unitarian Universalist ministers’ chapters
– their first taste of collegial relationships.
Interns bring energy and enthusiasm to host teaching
congregations, sharing a fresh vision of Unitarian Universalism’s
future.
Click to see our latest photo gallery, "Winter 2008 Intern Gathering", portraits of the 2007/2008 interns with their intern supervisors (requires Flash).
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2008-2009
Starr King student interns:
Shawnee Mission Unitarian Universalist Church
Johnson County, Kansas
Anne Griffiths
All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
Kansas City, Missouri
Kent McKusick
Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church
Bethesda, Maryland
Pam Gehrke
Unity Church-Unitarian
St. Paul, Minnesota
Leon Dunckley
Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley
Berkeley (Kensington), California
Lynn Kelly
Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock
Manhasset, Long Island, New York
James Field
Unitarian Society of Ridgewood
Ridgewood, New Jersey
Leah Hart-Landsberg
First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin
Austin, Texas
Brian Ferguson
First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Pete Olandt
Unitarian Universalist Church of the Monterey Peninsula
Carmel, California
Mary Foran
Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo
San Mateo, California
Wendy Bartel
Channing-Murray Foundation
Unitarian Universalist Campus Center
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Elizabeth Marsh
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