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  • Hello! I dicovered only now that on YouTube, at least three congress items have been posted up till now. Pass it on!👏

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  • Dear Congress Participants, Dear Friends,
    You will find recordings of Congress sessions here: https://iarf.net/groups/congress-2023/recordings/. The list is not complete yet as editing the footage turned out to be a little more time consuming than I had anticipated due to some issues with sound. I had to make and add subtitles to several videos to make them easier to understand and enjoy. Most regretabbly, one recording turned out to be unusable, unfortunately – Rev. Young’s talk was recorded using the wired microphone, which turned out to be broken. We replaced it with a wireless one immediately, but the damage had been done. My most sincere apologies to Rev. Young and all of you. The video quality isn’t as high as I hoped for (aparently Zoom’s cloud recording feature is limited in this regard), but I hope it won’t be too distracting from the content. I’ve certainly lerarned a lot and will do better next time! The list will be completed today or tomorrow.
    All the best,
    Luke

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  • Two days ago in the evening I was talking to Ruzbeh, with whom we went to past Congresses as well. We were sitting for a drink in the Carolina Square of the city center. He is a great fellow to be around, trust me on that 🙂
    At one point he said something very interesting to me:
    At the last two Congresses, we rented convention/conference centers in Birmingham and Washington, DC, which are places literally designed for conferences and congresses like ours. Great, professional venues, yet, he has a different feeling now, in the Unitarian High School, somehow that IARF is home, it is in a place than he can feel that he and the organization belongs to. Inside a building that really cultivates on an everyday basis the shared values of IARF. I think he expressed something that I felt somewhere in my soul, but didn’t vocalize: You came home!

    I truly hope your homestay was pleasant and you enjoyed your time here! We are sorry if some things did not match your expectations, we usually settle these issues with a couples of glasses of pálinka over here. Eastern Europe, after all 🙂
    But truly, I’m so thankful for every encounter that we had during the last couple of days. Meaningful conversations, humorous people, cultural and spiritual experiences, wanderings in the city, food and drinks, panels and answered questions, music and prayer, all of this stirred up into a beautiful Congress!

    Thank you, thank you!
    Looking forward to meeting with you in any part of the world!
    Blessings and love,
    Zsolt

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    • I totally agree with the observation about feeling at home in the Unitarian Academy building in Cluj as venue for the 36th IARF Congress! Of course, friendly and helpful people like Zsolt and his crew contributed greatly to this warm family atmosphere!

    • Dear Zsolt,
      In all the hustle and bustle I didn’t have a chance to say a proper goodbye and and a proper thank you. My apologies that I respond only now, but the travelling, a flue and then trying to catch up with many things after a few days of absence have put me in a state of chaos – creative chaos, I hope. It is true that your hospitality has surpassed my expectations, our expectations, which had already been very high after working with you online for a few months, and you – your team – have made it an awsome event. I hope we will collaborate on many projects in the future, both online and perhaps again in Kolozsvar, or other places in Europe and beyond, and I’m hopeful for the future of the IARF – and the HUC’s place in it.
      You must have had a tough week too – with the beginning of the school year and all the other things you’re involved in. May God bless you and allow you to chill out a bit : )
      Warmest regards,
      Luke
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  • For you who are travelling today: have a safe journey and I hope that the happy memories of this congress will stay with you for a long time. I would like to make a request : many will write reports of the congress to share with their organizations or church magazines. I think they would make good reading and provide an insight in the diversity within IARF. Would you please share them here or provide a link?

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