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[PEOPLE SINGING GOSPEL MUSIC]

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Erin Cerny: I really
feel a call to ministry,

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and the call to the Unitarian
Universalist community,

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and I thought that this
would be a good way

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to learn more about that.

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Halley Norman:
It's an opportunity

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to really try to understand
what it would be like to be

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a religious professional.

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You get to meet with people who
are actually doing that work.

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Mel Priese: It's a really
eye-opening experience

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to tell you all the
different ways that you

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can be involved in your church.

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Not just through parish
ministry, but through community

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ministry, or even chaplaincy.

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Nelson Moroukian: It
is an amazing place

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to find your
calling in ministry.

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Benji Rinehart: The point of
this is not to build community,

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it's to educate and explore
your own call to ministry

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in whatever form that may be.

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So the first couple days may
feel a little more disconnected

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than they would at the other
UU event, but by the end

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you'll still find yourself
in that same, beloved,

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all-inclusive,
all-accepting community.

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Speaker 6: One,
two, three, four.

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[SINGING]

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Audrey Havelah Laughrey:
I was given two things

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by the summer seminary staff.

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First, I was given a
rather simple question.

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What is the meaning of life?

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Benji Rinehart: I was
asked to think of a memory,

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and how that story can
help me bring strength

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to those in my ministry.

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Mitchell Winter: I was presented
with a quote from the Sufi poet

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Hafez.

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Cas Burr: I began to ask
myself the question-- man, what

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the hell are you doing here?

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Kirbey Geissler: I'm
going to challenge you.

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Once you leave today, get
in touch with whatever

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your inner demon may be.

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Roan Martin-hayden: I shared
the nearly universal experience

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of being afraid of the dark.

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Mel Priese: I know
just how unsafe

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I can be simply driving down
a road, because no matter how

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careful you are, there always
unknown influences and dangers.

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Abby Welch: And without
this bumpy road,

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I wouldn't understand that
something positive can actually

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come out of anything and
everything that happens to us.

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Erin Cerny: How can
we function in a world

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where we isolate and shut
down in the presence of doubt?

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Max Pivonka: You need to
stay committed to a movement

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to make a difference
and to not walk away

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from something you're passionate
about, because if you don't try

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to make a change in the
world, no change will ever

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come to pass.

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Olivia Calvi: In these
times of darkness

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when we feel most vulnerable, we
can carry that light within us,

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giving us the ability to
create beauty in the unknown.

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Cale Dinino-childers: If
you ask a group of Unitarian

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Universalists what they
believe, it's likely

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that their answers will vary.

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Luka Siraj Coole: I believe
in music, I believe in God,

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and I believe in people.

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Larissa Hunt: I
find the holy when

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I'm forced to give myself up
and trust in these things.

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Nelson Moroukian:
So what are you

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willing to do to bring people
into the paradise of freedom

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that is this faith?

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Eliana Okeson: Go tell
somebody what they mean to you.

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Tell them you love them.

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Tell them they're
worthy of your love

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and worthy of everybody's love.

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Tell them they're beautiful.

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Kirbey Geissler: You
don't have to have

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any idea of what you want
your career in ministry to be.

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You come in with an
interest in ministry

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and a passion for our faith,
and you will have a blast.

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