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      <image:caption>My college softball career didn’t go the way I dreamed. As a teenager, I trained for countless hours in the cage and weight room, all devoted to one goal: thriving at the collegiate level. I knew I’d never make it professionally, but I loved the game deeply and believed that I could succeed at a high level with enough effort and focus. When I committed to play in college as a sophomore in high school, I poured everything into preparing for the day I would step on campus. My first semester felt like a dream come true. I was in peak shape, starting every fall ball game as catcher, seeing the ball well, and finally feeling like I had “arrived.” All those years of preparation and perseverance were finally paying off.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - What My Injury Taught Me About Advent - That injury changed the story I thought I was living. Instead of spending everyday chasing records and playing the game I loved, I spent my college years rehabbing and waiting, never knowing if I’d get to play on any given day. I had trained my whole life for a season of thriving, but instead found myself in a season of surviving—grappling with limits, pain, and patience. For a long time, that season felt like failure. I thought I had missed the moment I had prepared for. From the outside, my collegiate years still looked like the life I had dreamed: a uniform, a team, a schedule full of games. From the inside, it felt like something else entirely. Instead of chasing records, I chased small wins: getting through warm‑ups, making it through practice, finding a pain level I could manage. On some days I laced up and played. On other days I watched in full gear from the dugout, unsure which hurt more, my back or my pride. I had expected those years to be my brightest. They turned out to be some of my darkest. The hours I thought would be spent performing were instead spent wrestling with questions that did not have easy answers. Who am I if I cannot do what I trained my whole life to do? Where is God in a story that keeps taking turns I never wanted? It wasn’t until much later - long after my career ended - when I realized what was happening in that time - how God was with me in the dark.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Rev. Dr. Shannon Spencer - Rev. Dr. Shannon Spencer (she/her)</image:title>
      <image:caption>North Carolina-native and former Executive Director of Asheville Poverty Initiative. Rev. Dr. Shannon Spencer is the Chaplain and Spiritual Life Director at Warren Wilson College. Before her time at Warren Wilson, she played and coached Division I basketball. She was named NC State Player of the year her Jr and Sr. years of high school and inducted into Catawba County's Hall of Fame in 2008.  Shannon was the Founder and Executive Director of Asheville Poverty Initiative and the 12 Baskets Cafe. She has a TedTalk and a documentary. Additionally, she serves as a chaplain at the Western Correctional Center for Women and pastored churches in Illinois, California, and North Carolina. Shannon holds a BS in Special Education from Appalachian State University, an M.Div. from Duke Divinity School, and a D. Min. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Reflecting on her time in ministry, she writes: “I have had many teachers along the way – some living in gated communities while others behind the gates of prisons and jails.  It’s been a beautifully broken journey framed by abundant grace and radical love.”  Shannon is most proud, however, to be mom to two amazing and creative girls.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Rev. James Douglas Franklin III serves as Campus and Young Adult Missioner in Winston Salem, NC, primarily at Wake Forest University. He holds degrees from Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas (Masters of Divinity) and UNC Chapel Hill (Bachelor of Arts). James landed his dream job in campus ministry, combining his love of coaching students, providing spiritual direction, preaching, writing, and helping create beloved community. James is the co-editor of Belovedness: Finding God (and Self) on Campus (2020) - a collaborative and ecumenical collaboration written especially for students who suspect there might be more to following Jesus in college than the "evangelical" would have us believe. He loves exploring the mountains of NC and lives in Winston Salem with his wife and daughters.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Rev. Mary Cat Young - Rev. Mary cat young (she/her)</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Rev. Mary Cat Young, an Episcopal priest, has been involved in campus ministry for 20 years in the Twin Cities, Boston, New York, North and South Carolina. She approaches InterFaith and ecumenical relationships with a deep commitment for mutual respect and companionship with students and young adults from an open and affirming desire to resource them for a fuller expression of their whole self and their connection to the holy. Chaplain Mary Cat serves as the Associate Rector of Campus and Young Adult Ministries at The Chapel of the Cross.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eric Dozier - ERic Dozier (he/him)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Eric Dozier (co-founder at Oneness Lab and One Human Family Music Workshops) is a music educator, cultural activist, and recording artist who uses music to engage communities in dialogue about racism. He has served as the musical director for the World Famous Harlem Gospel Choir, developed curriculum for the National Museum of African American Music, and has been a featured artist at the United Nations, sharing the stage with the likes of Harry Belafonte, Angelique Kidjo, Rafﬁ, and even Nelson Mandela.    He is the historian and co-composer of the internationally award-winning production Henry “Box” Brown: A Musical Journey (Best Musical Nominee Award 2019/20 - Fringe International UK) and a founding director of the award-winning Children’s Theatre Company of NYC, where he currently serves as Director of Equity and Community Engagement.  A graduate of Duke University and Duke Divinity School, he is currently pursuing a doctorate at the University of Tasmania researching the effects of Black Gospel Music on communities outside of the Black Church.  Through his wealth of experience working with groups of all ages and his unique blend of Down and Dirty Blues, Socially Conscious Soul, and Spirit Fueled Gospel Music he continues to demonstrate a deep commitment to  “Showing the World What Community Sounds Like.”  --</image:caption>
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