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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 this year's interns with their intern supervisors (requires Flash).
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2007-2008
Starr King student interns:
Unity Church-Unitarian
St. Paul, Minnesota
Matt Alspaugh
West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church
Cleveland, Ohio
Neal Anderson
Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo
San Mateo, California
Carol Bodeau
Unity Church-Unitarian
St. Paul, Minnesota
Jacqueline, Duhart
All Souls Unitarian Church
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Jeremy Elliott
Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church
Walnut Creek, California
Cassie Howe
Jericho Road Project
First Parish of Concord
Concord, Massachusetts
Becky Johnson
Church of the Larger Fellowship / Arlington Street Church
Boston, Massachusetts
Dan Kane
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists
Berkeley, California
Earl Koteen
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax
Oakton, Virginia
Shelley Page
Unitarian Universalist Church of Long Beach
Long Beach, California
Dennis Paul
West Valley Unitarian Universalist Church
Glendale, Arizona
Terry Robinson
Unitarian Church of Harrisburg
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Yvonne Schumacher Strecjek
intern supervisors
local
Unitarian Universalist communities
research
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