In Our Own Voices

This video was produced by fifth and sixth grade religious education students who were exploring what it means to be a Unitarian Universalist.  In this video you will see and hear some of our members explain why they are Unitarian Universalists, what they enjoy most about being part of our Fellowship, what they hope for the future and what they remember from the past.

This video was produced by Helen Gunderson and aired as our offertory on November 6, 2011, for the Earth -based Spirituality service. Helen originally wrote the poem in 1988, when she produced a slide/sound show, using photographs she had taken at Wellspring Renewal Center in Philo, California. Dan Miller, who worked at Wellspring, created the music that Helen used both in 1988 and 2011. She shot all of the footage, except the last two scenes, for the later version in her garden in Ames. The last two images are from an apple tree at her grandparents' farm in Pocahontas County, Iowa. The farm is abandoned but still has the 85-year-old Wealthy tree, and Helen has a tree in her garden that she grafted from the homeplace tree. Amy Slagell read the poem, and Jim Coppoc provided sound help.