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Each season brings a different kind of activity for the Meadville Lombard community. In the fall, we welcome our incoming residential students, in the winter, we welcome not only our new Modified Residency Program students, but also those MRP students who are returning for their yearly residential requirement. And, in the spring, our second-year students are making final preparations for the internship requirement of their degree programs. Our residential students generally complete their internship requirement during their third year, allowing them time to integrate what they have learned with the course work of their final year; it also gives them the freedom to begin the search process before graduation in their final year.
An internship of no less than six months is required by Meadville Lombard and the UUA Ministerial Fellowship Committee. We recommend that our students serve nine months (a full academic year) of full-time immersion in the supervised practice of ministry, but other arrangements (such as a two-year, half-time internship) can be made to meet this requirement.
Typically, our students who are preparing for parish ministry or a ministry in religious education, will serve their internship in a UU congregation. Internships cannot take place in a student's home congregation. Students preparing for community ministry should have a significant parish component to their internships, but if they choose, they may add part-time internship placements in an institution or agency whose work is related to their future ministries. Sometimes, a joint parish/community ministry internship can be arranged for our students.
Planning for internship begins at the end of the first year for residential students. Applications are due at internship sites by December of the second year. MRP students will not generally begin internship until the last year of their program. Rev. Nan Hobart, our Chaplain and Director of Admissions and Vocation works with students to research sites and assists them through the application process.
The following residential and MRP students will be fulfilling internships in the coming year:
Ellen Cooper-Davis, serving the Unitarian Universalist Church in Bloomington , Illinois. She will be supervised by the Rev. David Robins, DMin '78.
Megan Dalby, serving the First Unitarian Church in Dallas, Texas. She will be supervised by the Rev. Dr. Laurel Hallman, DMin '81 DD '97.
Allison Farnum, serving the First Unitarian Church in Baltimore, Maryland. She will be supervised by the Revs. John Manwell and Phyllis Hubbel.
Claudia Frost, serving the Emerson Unitarian Church of Houston, Texas. She will be supervised by the Revs. Mark and Rebecca Edmiston-Lange.
Kate Lore, serving the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Salem, Oregon. She will be supervised by the Rev. Richard Davis.
Aaron McEmrys, serving the First Unitarian Church in Denver, Colorado. He will be supervised by the Rev. Michael Morran.
E. Scott Michael, serving the Unitarian Universalist Society in Ridgewood, New Jersey. He will be supervised by the Rev. Sarah Lammert.
Wendy Pantoja, serving the Unitarian Universalist Society of Montclair, New Jersey. She will be supervised by the Rev. Charles Ortman, MDiv '92.
Jessica Purple Rodela, serving the Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo, New York. She will be supervised by the Rev. Joel Miller.
Justin Schroeder, serving Unity Church-Unitarian, in St. Paul, Minnesota. He will be supervised by the Revs. Janne and Rob Eller-Isaacs.
Stephen Sinclair will be doing his internship at The Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
Marian Stewart, serving the First Unitarian Church in Victoria, British Columbia and the Nanaimo Fellowship in Nanaimo, British Columbia. She will be supervised by the Rev. Jane Bramadat.
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