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United seminary students 
featured on television special 

by United Methodist News Service

Two ministerial candidates at United Methodist-related United Theological
Seminary, Dayton, Ohio, will be profiled on a national interfaith religious
television special in December examining the ministry as a second career.
The Rev. Steve Bahrt, a former chemical engineer and the Rev. Christopher
Martin, a former stock broker, will be featured on the CBS Television Network
special "Serving God: A Second Career" at 11 a.m. (EST) Dec. 21. The program
also will include other ministerial students from Catholic, Protestant and
Jewish seminaries.
Bahrt currently serves the Metamora and Laurel United Methodist Churches in
Laurel, Ind. He will discuss his motivation to leave a lucrative career and
enroll at United for the education required to be a United Methodist minister.
Martin is youth minister in a Baptist church. He will talk about why a career
as a financial analyst was not satisfying enough and how he embarked on a new
life, to find spiritual fulfillment.
Produced by Ted Holmes of the National Council of Churches, in cooperation
with the U.S. Catholic Conference, the Jewish Theological Seminary and the
Southern Baptist Radio and TV Commission, the special will examine why many
people enter religious vocations after up to 20 or more years in other work.
It will explore whether people enter the ministry later in life because of a
lack of spiritual fulfillment or a chance to serve others.
Seminary officials will discuss the problems and promises of today’s religious
careers as compared with similar work in earlier decades.
According to Holmes, ministry as a second career is "common." He said, "it is
a phenomenon that is very illustrative of people who are finding that what
they were doing is not enough." 
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