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MCC began in 1968 as a small home church to provide a Christian sanctuary for LGBT people. Today, we have grown in numbers and purpose, and we are now an international denomination committed to radical inclusivity in all areas. We are a movement that celebrates the diversity of the whole human family and all of creation.
Our communion table is open to everyone. There are no requirements or limitations. God welcomes all with open arms, and so do we!
Following the example of Jesus and empowered by the Spirit, we seek to be a transformational community that demands, proclaims, and does justice in the world. We are a Christian denomination who worship together in love, respecting the spiritual paths of each of our companions on the journey. Our paths converge in our commitment to justice so that all may thrive.
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Metropolitan Community Church welcomes many different points of view, some of which you can see in these video clips.
NeilThomasFoundersMCC  LeahBrownMCCofthePalmBeaches
mccla.org  mccpalmbeach.org
TerriSteedJoyMCC  DurrellWatkinsSunshineCathedralMCC
joymcc.com  sunshinecathedral.org
Coming Out and Christianity: MCC theology candidate Alex Pittaway on being Christian and gay
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MCC began in 1968 as a small home church to provide a Christian sanctuary for LGBT people. Today, we have grown in numbers and purpose, and we are now an international denomination committed to radical inclusivity in all areas. We are a movement that celebrates the diversity of the whole human family and all of creation.
Our communion table is open to everyone. There are no requirements or limitations. God welcomes all with open arms, and so do we!
Following the example of Jesus and empowered by the Spirit, we seek to be a transformational community that demands, proclaims, and does justice in the world. We are a Christian denomination who worship together in love, respecting the spiritual paths of each of our companions on the journey. Our paths converge in our commitment to justice so that all may thrive.
 godtalk
Metropolitan Community Church welcomes many different points of view, some of which you can see in these video clips.
NeilThomasFoundersMCC  LeahBrownMCCofthePalmBeaches
mccla.org  mccpalmbeach.org
TerriSteedJoyMCC  DurrellWatkinsSunshineCathedralMCC
joymcc.com  sunshinecathedral.org
Coming Out and Christianity: MCC theology candidate Alex Pittaway on being Christian and gay
Audio Playerhttp://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/local/sundaynights/201503/r1397951_19928284.mp300:0000:0000:00Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. Alex Pittaway

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« MCC General Conference Music Leader/Music Leader AssistantMCC Celebrating Women’s History Month »Seven Strategies for Successful Stewardship
January 26th, 2015 | Author: admin
SevenStrategiesA New MCC Webinar for Local Church Leaders
With Rev. Elder Don Eastman

Find new vitality for giving in your congregation through a holistic approach to excellence in stewardship!

During this 90 minute webinar you will:
Gain insights on how you can help to create a culture of generosity in your congregation.
Learn how to develop a highly effective annual stewardship program for your church.
Discover a wealth of resources to support your stewardship efforts throughout the year.
Connect with other church leaders with perspectives on the ministry of stewardship.

This webinar will be presented three times during 2015. Select the webinar that targets your congregational size.
Over 150 in weekly worship attendance: Wednesday, April 22, 2015; 11:00 am to 12:30 pm (EST-USA) Registration Link: http://www.gifttool.com/registrar/ShowEventDetails?ID=1668&EID=19448

75 to 150 in weekly worship attendance: Wednesday, June17, 2015; 11:00 am to 12:30 pm (EST-USA) Registration Link: http://www.gifttool.com/registrar/ShowEventDetails?ID=1668&EID=19483

Under 75 in weekly worship attendance: Wednesday, August 12, 2015; 11:00 am to 12:30 pm (EST-USA) Registration Link: http://www.gifttool.com/registrar/ShowEventDetails?ID=1668&EID=19484


This webinar is designed for Pastors, Board members and Stewardship Teams.  Register soon!  Space is limited.

About our Webinar Facilitator
Rev. Elder Don Eastman has long been one of MCC’s leading advocates of healthy church growth and excellence in ministry.  From his many years as a successful pastor, non-profit organization executive, and MCC denominational leader, he brings a wide range of experience and expertise.  As an Elder, Rev. Eastman served as both the Treasurer and Vice Moderator of the MCC denomination.
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« MCC General Conference Music Leader/Music Leader AssistantMCC Celebrating Women’s History Month »Seven Strategies for Successful Stewardship
January 26th, 2015 | Author: admin
SevenStrategiesA New MCC Webinar for Local Church Leaders
With Rev. Elder Don Eastman

Find new vitality for giving in your congregation through a holistic approach to excellence in stewardship!

During this 90 minute webinar you will:
Gain insights on how you can help to create a culture of generosity in your congregation.
Learn how to develop a highly effective annual stewardship program for your church.
Discover a wealth of resources to support your stewardship efforts throughout the year.
Connect with other church leaders with perspectives on the ministry of stewardship.

This webinar will be presented three times during 2015. Select the webinar that targets your congregational size.
Over 150 in weekly worship attendance: Wednesday, April 22, 2015; 11:00 am to 12:30 pm (EST-USA) Registration Link: http://www.gifttool.com/registrar/ShowEventDetails?ID=1668&EID=19448

75 to 150 in weekly worship attendance: Wednesday, June17, 2015; 11:00 am to 12:30 pm (EST-USA) Registration Link: http://www.gifttool.com/registrar/ShowEventDetails?ID=1668&EID=19483

Under 75 in weekly worship attendance: Wednesday, August 12, 2015; 11:00 am to 12:30 pm (EST-USA) Registration Link: http://www.gifttool.com/registrar/ShowEventDetails?ID=1668&EID=19484


This webinar is designed for Pastors, Board members and Stewardship Teams.  Register soon!  Space is limited.

About our Webinar Facilitator
Rev. Elder Don Eastman has long been one of MCC’s leading advocates of healthy church growth and excellence in ministry.  From his many years as a successful pastor, non-profit organization executive, and MCC denominational leader, he brings a wide range of experience and expertise.  As an Elder, Rev. Eastman served as both the Treasurer and Vice Moderator of the MCC denomination.
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GJIheaderMetropolitan Community Churches are on a bold mission to transform hearts, lives, and history…Just as Jesus did, we are called to: Do justice, show kindness, and live humbly with God. (Micah 6:8) – From MCC’s Statement of Vision MCC recognizes a state of need around the world in the areas of human rights and justice. As people of faith, we have a responsibility to act on behalf of those who cannot effect change on their own. We endeavor to build bridges that liberate and unite voices of sacred defiance.We lead from the margins. We transform.Click here to find out more about MCC’s Global Justice Ministry

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JOIN THE 33 CONGREGATIONS HOLDING AN EASTER OFFERING FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE! 
Help promote LGBT rights in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, Vietnam, and Malaysia
JOIN GJI/MCC AS WE STAND TOGETHER FOR JUSTICE


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Racial Reconciliation
Transgender TRANSformative Church Ministry Program
Trans* Day Of Remembrance
Transgender Youth
Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Children and Youth
Stop Trans Pathologization
Creating a Life that Matters
Church Summits Church Summit Resources
L.E.A.D. Program Plan
Local Church Resources
Church Treasurer’s Manual
Theological Resources
Annual Reporting
Ministries Leadership Development
Global Justice Ministry Center GJ Vision and Mission
MCC Theologies Team Teologías Descriptivas
About the Theologies Team
Meet the Theologies Team
Theologies Guiding Principles
Statement of Purpose
Descriptive Theologies
Team Resources
PAD Conference 2014 Atlanta
Progressive Christian Reflections
Transgender Ministries
Would Jesus Discriminate?
Youth Ministries
Give to MCC Moderator’s Circle Testimonials
Moderator’s Circle Sign Up
Be A Gem
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Judy Dale Scholarship Fund
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GJIheaderMetropolitan Community Churches are on a bold mission to transform hearts, lives, and history…Just as Jesus did, we are called to: Do justice, show kindness, and live humbly with God. (Micah 6:8) – From MCC’s Statement of Vision MCC recognizes a state of need around the world in the areas of human rights and justice. As people of faith, we have a responsibility to act on behalf of those who cannot effect change on their own. We endeavor to build bridges that liberate and unite voices of sacred defiance.We lead from the margins. We transform.Click here to find out more about MCC’s Global Justice Ministry

Global Justice Ministry News
Join the Human Chain of Peace Against Hatred and Discrimination in Seoul
Awareness, Affirmation & Action
JOIN THE 33 CONGREGATIONS HOLDING AN EASTER OFFERING FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE! 
Help promote LGBT rights in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, Vietnam, and Malaysia
JOIN GJI/MCC AS WE STAND TOGETHER FOR JUSTICE


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Trans* Day Of Remembrance
Transgender Youth
Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Children and Youth
Stop Trans Pathologization
Creating a Life that Matters
Church Summits Church Summit Resources
L.E.A.D. Program Plan
Local Church Resources
Church Treasurer’s Manual
Theological Resources
Annual Reporting
Ministries Leadership Development
Global Justice Ministry Center GJ Vision and Mission
MCC Theologies Team Teologías Descriptivas
About the Theologies Team
Meet the Theologies Team
Theologies Guiding Principles
Statement of Purpose
Descriptive Theologies
Team Resources
PAD Conference 2014 Atlanta
Progressive Christian Reflections
Transgender Ministries
Would Jesus Discriminate?
Youth Ministries
Give to MCC Moderator’s Circle Testimonials
Moderator’s Circle Sign Up
Be A Gem
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Judy Dale Scholarship Fund
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Who We Are
Since its founding in 1968, MCC has been at the vanguard of civil and human rights movements by addressing important issues such as racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism, and other forms of oppression.  MCC has been on the forefront in the struggle towards marriage equality in the US and other countries worldwide and continues to be a powerful voice in the LGBT equality movement.
Where We Are
MCC’s ministry is provided primarily through 222 local congregations located in 40 countries worldwide, including:
Africa
Kenya
Nigeria
South Africa 
Asia
Malaysia
The Philippines
South Korea
Australasia
Australia
New Zealand
Caribbean
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Jamaica
Puerto Rico
 Central & South America
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Ecuador
El Salvador
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Uruguay
Venezuela

 Europe
Denmark
England
France
Germany
Ireland
Romania
Russia
Scotland
Spain
Ukraine
Wales
North America
Canada
United States

Complete report of MCC’s Global Presence
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MCC GLOBAL PRESENCE as of June 23 2012

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2014 MCC Today (A4)2014 MCC Today (A4)
2014 MCC Today (A4).pdf
Date Updated: 8 July 2014
Category: Miscellaneous
Date: 8 July 2014
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2014 MCC Today (8.5x11).pdf
Date Updated: 8 July 2014
Category: Miscellaneous
Date: 8 July 2014

Structure of MCC
MCC Structure February 2015MCC Structure February 2015
MCC Structure February 2015.pdf
Date Updated: 3 March 2015
Category: Governing Board
Date: 3 March 2015

The Facts About MCC
Click on the link below to view and download MCC’s Fact Sheet for an accounting of MCC’s history, growth and progress.
MCC FACT SHEETMCC FACT SHEET
MCC FACT SHEET February 2013.pdf
Date Updated: 12 February 2013
Category: Miscellaneous
Date: 12 February 2013
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MCC Vision Statement
Metropolitan Community Church is compelled
by an unfinished calling and a prophetic
destiny. We are a global movement of
spiritually and sexually diverse people who are
fully awake to God’s enduring love. Following
the example of Jesus and empowered by the
Spirit, we seek to build leading-edge church
communities that demand, proclaim, and do
justice in the world.
MCC Denomination Mission Statement
Be MCC: Transforming ourselves as we transform the world.
Metropolitan Community Church proclaims and practices a
spirituality that is anchored in the liberating Gospel of Jesus Christ
and confronts the issues of our volatile, uncertain, and complex world.
We are called to develop and equip leaders, congregations, and
ministries that foster spiritual growth, do the work of justice, act with
compassion, and integrate sexuality and spirituality.
We will do this through offering high-value training, local church
support and resourcing, cutting edge theological exploration, and
expanding partnerships.
MCC Denomination Core Values
Inclusion
Love is our greatest moral value and resisting exclusion is a primary focus of our ministry. We want to continue to be conduits of faith where everyone is included in the family of God and where all parts of our being are welcomed at God’s table.
Community
Offering a safe and open community for people to worship, learn, and grow in their faith is our deep desire. We are committed to equipping ourselves and each other to do the work that God has called us to do in the world.
Spiritual Transformation
Providing a message of liberation from the oppressive religious environment of our day or to those experiencing God for the first time is what guides our ministry. We believe that when people are invited to experience God through the life and ministry of Christ, lives will be transformed.
Justice
Working to talk less and do more, we are committed to resisting the structures that oppress people and standing with those who suffer under the weight of oppressive systems, being guided always by our commitment to Global Human Rights.
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MCC GLOBAL PRESENCE as of June 23 2012.pdf
Date Updated: 9 July 2012
Date: 9 July 2012
MCC FACT SHEETMCC FACT SHEET
MCC FACT SHEET February 2013.pdf
Date Updated: 12 February 2013
Category: Miscellaneous
Date: 12 February 2013
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Trans* Day Of Remembrance
Transgender Youth
Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Children and Youth
Stop Trans Pathologization
Creating a Life that Matters
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Local Church Resources
Church Treasurer’s Manual
Theological Resources
Annual Reporting
Ministries Leadership Development
Global Justice Ministry Center GJ Vision and Mission
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Meet the Theologies Team
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Descriptive Theologies
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PAD Conference 2014 Atlanta
Progressive Christian Reflections
Transgender Ministries
Would Jesus Discriminate?
Youth Ministries
Give to MCC Moderator’s Circle Testimonials
Moderator’s Circle Sign Up
Be A Gem
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Disaster Relief
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MCC Travel Partners
Judy Dale Scholarship Fund
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Staff Directory
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Who We Are
Since its founding in 1968, MCC has been at the vanguard of civil and human rights movements by addressing important issues such as racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism, and other forms of oppression.  MCC has been on the forefront in the struggle towards marriage equality in the US and other countries worldwide and continues to be a powerful voice in the LGBT equality movement.
Where We Are
MCC’s ministry is provided primarily through 222 local congregations located in 40 countries worldwide, including:
Africa
Kenya
Nigeria
South Africa 
Asia
Malaysia
The Philippines
South Korea
Australasia
Australia
New Zealand
Caribbean
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Jamaica
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This 4-part document was released in Fall, 2004.  Compiled of interviews and writings of Rev. Elder Troy Perry,
Founder and Moderator of MCC, this series tells the story of MCC’s beginnings from his perspective.
Introduction
In 1968, a year before New York’s Stonewall Riots, a series of most unlikely events in Southern California resulted in the birth of the world’s first church group with a primary, positive ministry to gays, lesbians, bisexual, and transgender persons.
Those events, a failed relationship, an attempted suicide, a reconnection with God, an unexpected prophecy, and the birth of a dream led to MCC’s first worship service: a gathering of 12 people in Rev. Troy Perry’s living room in Huntington Park, California on October 6, 1968.
That first worship service in a Los Angeles suburb in 1968 launched the international movement of Metropolitan Community Churches, which today has grown to 43,000 members and adherents in almost 300 congregations in 22 countries. During the past 36 years, MCC’s prophetic witness has forever changed the face of Christianity and helped to fuel the international struggle for LGBT rights and equality
These edited excerpts are from “The Lord Is My Shepherd, And He Knows I’m Gay” authored by MCC Founder and Moderator, Rev. Troy D. Perry.
Prelude
In the early 1960s, Rev. Perry was defrocked as a clergyperson by a Pentecostal denomination because of his homosexuality. He spent the next several years struggling to reconcile his sexuality and his Christian spirituality.
In Part I, Rev. Perry describes the events that preceded the first worship MCC service:
A failed romance.
An attempted suicide.
A reconnection with God.
An unexpected prophecy.
And the birth of a dream…
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Part One
Troy Perry had fallen deeply in love with as young man named Benny. Perry was stunned when Benny came home one day and announced the relationship was over.
I looked at him and I asked, “Benny, is it really over?”  He looked at me, and smiled, and said, “Yes, It is.” And it sounded so final. My world just came tumbling down. I felt so completely lost.
I felt like a total failure at everything.  I felt that there was no one I could talk to. I felt shut off from everyone. Nothing seemed worth anything anymore. Nothing had any value. There seemed to be no future. Only darkness.
But I wanted to pull myself together. I went into the bathroom and shaved. And then I started crying. I just couldn’t stop. I sat down and sobbed. I felt naked, and there was absolutely no one around me. I felt deserted by everyone and everything that I had ever known. It was hopeless—useless to even try to go on. I couldn’t even remember God. I felt as though God did not exist, so why even try to pray? I had lost something — someone — I had loved more than anything else in the world.
That was the problem, of course. Benny had taken God’s place. I had equated him with God. I had allowed him to take the place of God in my life. I had made the mistake of placing a human being before God.
In my despair, I felt that I had no choices open to me. There was no tomorrow. There was not even the present. I got up and tried to pull myself together. I opened the medicine cabinet. The first thing I saw was the razor blade.  I took it in my hands. I stared at it. This was the instrument of the Angel of Death. I staggered. I managed to get into the tub; I felt totally numb. Somehow I managed to slowly and deliberately press the blade through the skin and into the flesh of my wrists. The veins popped and yielded up their dark fluid. It was thicker than I expected, and darker. I had physical sensations of numbness growing upon me. I drifted off to sleep, even though I was not at all aware of it.
The dream drifted on; I had a sense of being alive, but of being asleep, of drifting, of fading, and of being heavier and heavier. The dream became a troubled nightmare. Somewhere out there I could hear screaming. Scream after scream filtered through to me, but I couldn’t respond.
Later, I learned that Benny, the person with whom I had broken up, had come into the bathroom and discovered me in the grisly mess I had made. He screamed and ran next door to the neighbors. Well, my neighbor Marianne and a couple of her sons charged in there and took over. They tied my wrists up with cloths and rushed me off to the emergency hospital. I ended up at the Los Angeles County General Hospital.
By the time I got there, I had regained consciousness and I had really gone all to pieces. I didn’t know whether I would live or die. And I was scared. If ever I went through a nervous breakdown, that must have been it. I cried for at least three hours while waiting for some kind of medical attention. The emergency cases were really lined up.
Well, I was sitting there, crying uncontrollably, when someone walked in front of me and stood there for a minute. I was aware of this person, like a shadow before me. This person reached down and stuck a religious magazine into my hands and said, “Here. Some of us care about you!”
I looked up dumbly, and stared at this black woman. Her words hit me like a slap in the face. It snapped me out of my depression, just to hear that someone cared.
Then the woman turned and left. I never knew her name, but when I was aware that she had gone, I remembered God. My mind started working, just like someone had thrown a switch inside it. I finally recalled that I had forgotten all about God. There was still God. It had been so long since I really knew absolutely that God did exist.
I stopped crying, I looked at my soggily bandaged wrists and said, “All right, Lord, I’ve made some terrible mistakes. You just help me with them.” I felt a weight go out of my life.  My whole attitude toward God and death and life had shifted. I knew that God cared about me and that God was with me, all the way – wherever that would lead me.
During those days, I grew to rely heavily on my friend and roommate, Willie Smith, who took a keen interest in me. He’d been working the night I had tried to commit suicide. He didn’t know anything about it until noon the next day. It shook him. But he stood by me.
And my next-door neighbors were of great help. Marianne and her sons were so eager to help me. They kept a close watch on me. One of Marianne’s great friends was a black woman who was a minister and of whom she often spoke.  Well, I finally met her minister friend. She was small and direct, and her name was Vera Hockset. And she was truly amazing. She had remarkable, God-given insight into people’s lives.
So one Sunday afternoon, I finally met Vera. She asked how everything was going with me.
And I said, “Oh I’m just fine.”
She looked at me directly and said, “Well, not really.”
Well, that shook me up a little.
I talked with Vera and her sincerity moved me and touched my heart somehow. Vera went on,
“Do you have some relative that was a minister? A deceased relative?
I told her, “Yes, I had a great-uncle who is deceased, and he was a Pentecostal minister.”
Vera went on to say, “You’re a minister. You always have been, and it won’t be long before you will be pastoring a church.”
I just laughed. I said, “No, I’ll never pastor a church.”
She looked sternly at me and said, “Oh, yes you will. God has a ministry for you.”
That stunned me. All my life I’d always been told that by people who really knew me. And here was a total stranger telling me the same thing. My Auntie Bea used to say the same thing over and over. I remembered that Auntie Bea had one time said, “The Lord has a ministry for you. A great ministry, but it won’t be the church you’re currently in.”
I smiled at Vera and said, “No, that’ll never happen.”
But she topped my smile with one of her own that came from her own basic understanding and warmth. She started to tell me many things about myself — she told me more than anyone could possibly have known about me. It really rocked me, and I knew that his was no ordinary woman.
She had powers of insight that must have come from God.
During this time I prayed a great deal. And the Lord began to deal with me. Things became easier. My attitudes shifted. Finally with God’s help and understanding, I became convinced that He was moving me to a mission, that a vision of that mission would be revealed to me. And I knew that when it came, I must never look back; I would never have to. My journey would be forward. My course would be clear. I would know my work. It would be hard, but I would spend my life at it.
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Part Two
In 1968, Troy Perry was stunned when his lover Benny announced that their relationship was over. In his desperation and depression Perry attempted suicide. Following the failed suicide attempt, Perry experienced a renewed sense of spirituality. He began to pray again. And he was perplexed by the words of a stranger who prophesied, “God has a ministry for you. You are going to pastor a church.” At that time, that was far from Troy Perry’s mind. He picks up the story by sharing events that took place after the attempted suicide.
I prayed and I could feel God’s presence. God was the source of power, authority, warmth and understanding. God was the force of good, of energy, of creative positive happenings.  After my suicide attempt, I would hit the gay spots once in a while. Usually I went with my friend and roommate, Willie Smith, on his nights off.
I developed a friendship with a young man by the name of Carlos. We used to talk about our basic beliefs, but Carlos would never even let me make any mention of religious beliefs. He had mentioned that he had belonged to a church, but, he agreed with Willie Smith, for him it was not the answer.
Then Carlos got arrested by the police.
For what? …Well, just for buying beer in a gay bar. He had done absolutely nothing else. It was the way the police used to harass the gay community. He was there with me, and with a couple of friends of ours. It was so unjust.
Here’s what happened:
Carlos bought a couple of beers and came back to our table, and started to sit down. A police officer in plain clothes walked up to him, flashed a badge, and said, “Come outside with me!”
They took Carlos outside, along with another friend of ours, Bill. Both men were charged with lewd conduct, handcuffed, frisked, and hauled off to jail.
We moved fast.
Some of us went right down to the jail. Now this was eleven o’clock at night. I knew Carlos had done nothing wrong. He hadn’t broken any law, and I am convinced of that to this day. But it took me until 5:30 AM to get Carlos released. It was all due to delaying tactics by the police. The booking procedure, the mug shots, the fingerprinting, just took hours. It was part of the harassment that took place far too often against the gay community in those days.
When I finally saw Carlos, I could tell he was more shaken up that I was. And I was really upset.
I took Carlos home with me. I wanted him to get cleaned up, pulled together, and have something to eat. Then we’d plan what we were going to do.
Carlos said, “You know something? I’ve never been arrested before for anything in my life.  Never! And I’m 26 years old now. The police kept telling me they are going to call my employer and tell him I’m gay. I’ll probably lose my job. You know, Troy, I’ve learned one thing from this experience: People don’t really care. Nobody likes a queer.”
I tried to be helpful. “Well, Carlos, even if people don’t, I’m still convinced that God cares about you.”
Carlos just laughed bitterly. “Come on, Troy. God doesn’t care about me.”
With that, he turned and left. And when he left, I felt the weight of his disaster upon me.
I had made my way back to God enough to know that I could talk to God. So I knelt down and said, “All right God, if it’s Your will; if You want me to see a church started as an outreach into our community, You just let me know when.” And I heard a still small voice within me say,
“Now!”
My course was set! I had to fight to keep it from occupying all of my thoughts while I was at work. I knew that the mission was coming into focus. God wanted me to start a new church that would reach into the gay community, but that would include anyone and everyone who believed in the true spirit of God’s love, peace, and forgiveness.
My learning experience sped up. The Lord was really getting me ready. I knew that the word “church” would be in the title. In my free time, I used to think and pray about what kind of church God wanted me to found. I would sit in that little office in back of the yardage department at Sears and pray and think and dream.  I knew God wanted a church where God could move. I think that’s why “church” was always in the title. Then I would ask the Lord if it was to be really an outreach into the gay community. So the word “community” got into the title. The more I thought about it, the more I liked it. Community meant a feeling of comradeship, a small area, a place where you knew everybody. So, it would be a community church. We would also serve a large community; we would serve all of the Los Angeles area. Los Angeles is a large urban area, so the word “metropolitan” finally came to mind, and it stuck.
Then I had to worry about how I was going to reach the gay community.

There’s always the grapevine, but church services and religion aren’t usually part of that.
During this time of planning and preparing, I was such a happy individual. Willie Smith saw me walking around the house humming, smiling, and full of energy. He nailed me about it one day.
He said, “What’s eating on you?
So, I leveled with him. I said, “Well, Willie I’m sure that God wants me to start a new church.”
Willie just collapsed and said, “Oh, my God, I thought you were over all that silliness.”
I said, “Wait a minute, Willie. This is a church for us, it will serve the homosexuals, the gay community.”
Well, Willie thought that was crazy. He said, “You mean you really are serious about this religious stuff?”
I assured him that I was. I said, “I know, Willie, that it’s the thing to do. I’ve got to try and see if I can’t bring a message, God’s message, to all the gay people.”
What Willie wanted to know was this: “How are you going to organize a bunch of queens, and get them to follow any religion, or any person, or do anything together? You know how bitchy we are. We always act individually. Nobody has ever organized the gay community into anything and accomplished anything. It’s ridiculous.”
I told Willie I would go ahead anyway. “And,” I added, “we’ll do it right here.”
Willie was horrified.
He said, “You’ve got to be kidding. I’m already too much for Huntington Park. And you’re going to have all those faggots from Hollywood down here running in and out of our house to attend church services? The neighborhood just can’t take the strain!”
He just looked at me again, and said, “Okay. If you’re going to do it, go ahead. But don’t be too disappointed if it doesn’t happen. Helping queens get religion isn’t anybody’s bag.”
Then he added, “But if it does work…count me in.”
So I asked Lee Glaze, owner of The Patch gay bar, about it. Lee thought it would be just great. I asked him what he thought was the best way to reach the gay community. He thought it over.
While he was thinking, I said, “I’m going to advertise it in The Advocate, I guess. What do you think about it?”
He said, “That’s a great idea. As a matter of fact, it happens that the editor of The Advocate and his lover are here in The Patch tonight. Would you like to meet them?”
I was eager to, so I went into Lee’s side office near the bar. He brought in Dick and Bill, and made the introductions. We started talking and I explained my plans. They were skeptical about what I was trying to do. Was this some kind of business venture? Just what was I up to? They weren’t sure that they wanted to sell me any advertising at all. So I really gave them my pitch. And when we finished, they not only took the ad, they gave me a good rate on it. They also told me that they might, just might, even attend a service at Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), if it ever got started.
Now at that time, The Advocate was published only once a month. I decided I would advertise in the October issue which would hit the street the last week of September. So, I set the date for my first service. It was October 6, 1968. I had about two weeks between the publication of the first ad and the first worship service.
Just about ten days before the first service, my mother came down to see me. She and her husband were separating, and she was going to go back home to Florida for a vacation. She knew of my suicide attempt, of course, and she kept much closer contact with me. I visited her as frequently as I could.
Again, I’m going to have her tell, in her own words; something of the way she saw it.
“One day, I visited with Troy at his home in Huntington Park. He seemed kind of distracted and I was afraid that he was losing interest in his faith, in any kind of church or religion. And we were talking. I said to him, ‘Troy, have you ever thought about starting a church?’ Well, that stunned him. I guess I must have really read his mind. But we were talking, and he told me that a friend of his had been arrested — busted as they call it — on some kind of homosexual charge or other.
And he told how much that boy needed help. And I said to Troy, ‘Well, haven’t you ever thought about starting a church for homosexuals?’ Well, a change came over him, and he looked at me and that was it. He said that that was just what he had been praying about and that was what he was going to do. He looked so fierce and intent. He said that it had been uppermost in his mind for several weeks.”
So I began to share my dream for the church with the gays and lesbians. They almost all had the same reaction that Willie Smith had had. Some told me to forget it. We had gone through generations, even centuries, of that awful conviction that if you were a homosexual you could not be a child of God; you could not be a Christian.
I knew I was really shoveling sand against the tide to get started.
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Part Three
In 1968, Troy Perry was stunned when his lover Benny announced that their relationship was over. In his desperation and depression Perry attempted suicide. Following the failed suicide attempt, Perry experienced a renewed sense of spirituality. He began to pray again. And he was perplexed by the words of a stranger who prophesied, “God has a ministry for you. You are going to pastor a church.” At that time, that was the far from Troy Perry’s mind. Around the same time, a gay friend of Perry’s was harassed and arrested by the police. In his desperation, the young man said to Troy. “God doesn’t care. God doesn’t care about gay people.” That spurred Perry to hold the very first MCC worship service.
That first Sunday church service finally arrived — October 6, 1968.
I stood nervously watching the door, worried to death. I had cleaned out the living room, set up some chairs, used the coffee table for an alter. I had borrowed a robe from the Congregationalist minister that I had helped out previously. He insisted that I had to preach in a robe for that first service. I had borrowed some trays from some very close friends, Steve and his lover, Lynn. These were for communion. I set up everything, and stood in the kitchen.
Our house was one of those “shotgun” houses: From the front door, you could see all the way back. You could see right through to the back room. I could stand in the kitchen and look all the way down the hall way to the front door. I paced nervously around in my borrowed robe and clutched the Bible and thumbed through it and riffled the pages. Then, people began to gather.
My roommate and dear friend Willie Smith let them in. He greeted them, and saw that they sat down. One friend of ours brought his straight brother and the brother’s girlfriend. Other people showed. Most had heard about it, but finally, three people showed up who had read the ad in The Advocate.
There were 12 people in the living room, and I walked out, and asked everyone to stand up, and I said, “We’ll go before the Lord in prayer.” We joined hands and prayed. Then I said, “We’ll sing some hymns.”  I invited everyone to turn to a page in the book. We’d borrowed the hymnals from the Congregationalist church where I had been a guest preacher the previous Easter.  No one knew what to expect. Everyone was as scared as I was. They all waited around for me to lead the singing and sing out. So I did.  My mother always used to say, “My boys don’t sing too well, but they sure sing loud.” And that was never more true.
As we sang, I recalled my neighbor Marianne Johnston’s reaction to the church. She thought it was a lovely idea, but she said, “You’ll be raided during your first service.”
I laughed and said, “Well, I wish the police would come in. It wouldn’t bother me at all.”
We sang several hymns. We sounded a little thin and tinny, but the spirit was what counted. We didn’t have a piano or any kind of accompaniment.  Willie Smith was there, but he wasn’t sure he wanted to be a part of it. He still didn’t know just what to think.
I recall I had assured Willie, just before we started, that God was in this. I said, “I know now that I’m going to be in God’s perfect will. Not God’s permissive will as I as in my past life.”
Well, we prayed again and then I relaxed.
I introduced myself.
I told about where I was born, my age, my name, my marriage, my sons, my religious background, where I went to high school and college. I talked about the churches I had pastored in Florida, Illinois and California. I said that one in Santa Ana had been the last I pastored in 1963, and here we were now, after my army hitch. I told them that I was a division manager with one of the largest retailers in Los Angeles, and that I would continue as such until the church was large enough to support a full-time minister. Even then, I was sure that that time would come.
Then I introduced the church.
I said the church was organized to serve the religious, spiritual and social needs of the homosexual community of greater Los Angeles, but I expected to grow to reach homosexuals wherever they might be. I made it clear that we were not a gay church — we were a Christian church, and I said that in my first sermon. I also told them that we would be a general Protestant church to be all-inclusive. Then I prayed again.
And then I went into my Biblical message.
My sermon was entitled, “Be True to You.” It was actually inspired by Polonius’ advice to his son, Laertes, when the young man was about to leave. It’s early in Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, and it’s from those lines that go:
“This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
I then moved from Shakespeare to the story of Job, to the Book of Job, chapter 19, verses 1-26, and I read them aloud.
“Oh that my words were now written!  Oh that they were printed in a book!  That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!  For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:  And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.”
Job had learned to be true to himself. He never wavered once he made up his mind, and knew that he was called of God. His friends came and told him that he must have sinned for some reason or he wouldn’t be visited by all these things that plagued him.  He lost his family.
Everything terrible happened to him. But Job’s remark to them was, “Though God slay me, yet I’ll trust in God. I’ll come forth as pure as gold.”  Even going through the refiner’s fire, he knew that he would make it. And I knew that we at Metropolitan Community Church could do that too.
I also preached about David and Goliath. David said that the same God that protected him when he had to do battle once with a bear, and once with a lion would protect him again.  Even when things look awfully bad to us in the gay community, God can help.  And we can win, even though it looks like everything is stacked against us. So, I said, “Be true to you.  Believe in yourself, and believe in God. You have to believe in yourself as a human being first, and then God is able to help you. You are not just an individual in circumstances, but you always are the created being of God.”
I pointed out that we must be humble, spiritual human beings first, homosexuals second. We must love and build, free ourselves, and free others from their feelings against us. I closed my sermon with a quote from the Epistle of St. Paul, the Apostle to the Philippians, fourth chapter, thirteenth verse, which says,
“I can do all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me!”
After I finished preaching, I closed my Bible, and I knew that God was in the place.
I prayed again, and then I looked up and said, “We’re going to have open communion,” there wasn’t a dry eye in the place. A hush fell over the place and everybody in that small living room was weeping silently. We all felt that we were a part of something great. God was preparing to move. We were to see God’s handiwork, and that would be unbelievable.
I offered communion. Only three came forward to take the bread and wine, but they were weeping. And then I served communion to myself.
We dismissed with a prayer of benediction. Then I invited everyone to stay for coffee and cake.
We gathered and we just couldn’t quit crying. We all sat around and said we had felt the spirit of the Lord. One young man came up to me, and said, “Oh, Troy, God was here this morning!  I haven’t been in a church in eight years. And even when I left the church, the one I’d been in, I never felt anything like I felt here this morning, in this living room.”
When that service was finally over, Willie Smith said that he had really been moved by it. He insisted that he didn’t know yet about whether the church would actually take a hold and grow.
I said, “Willie, only God knows the answer to that.”
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Part Four
The first MCC service took place on October 6, 1968. Rev. Troy Perry’s friend and roommate, Willie Smith, was skeptical of Perry’s plans for a church that would minister to the GLBT communities. But after the very first service, Smith’s thinking began to change:
After that first service, Willie’s heart began to change. He said, “This MCC church just might work out, and I want you to know I’m with you all the way, 100%. And I’ll do anything I can to make it work.”
And he did.  He started right then.
For the next Sunday, he scrounged up a phonograph and records of some religious music so that we could all sing to it. Aside from being an ace projectionist, Willie was also a singer, and music director. He made that his job with the new church.
The next Sunday, we were 14 instead of 12. I got up and looked around and said, “If you love the Lord this morning would you say ‘amen!'” They all shouted “amen” back to me. It’s been that way, too, since then. I also praised the Lord because we were growing.
The next Sunday we had 16 and I got up and said, “Well look at this. Thank you Jesus, we’re on the move!”
But, the fourth Sunday we had only nine, and I almost died. But here again, God had prepared me. He gave me a sermon entitled, “Despise Not the Day of Small Things.” And God gave me that sermon for Troy Perry, not for anyone there.
Lee, a friend from my army days, and now one of the regulars, said, “That morning, when you looked out in the group, and saw that it had shrunk, I could tell that you were upset. You got up and you preached, and you preached as though you meant it. I could tell you really meant it.”
I said, “Well, that was a sermon God gave especially for me.” The next Sunday we had 22 in attendance.
We’d jumped back up in attendance, and we’ve never dropped since.
As we started to grow and attract people from all kinds of different backgrounds, I knew that we would have to begin settling problems of organization, administration, doctrine and the church services. They had to be settled soon, so that everyone would be able to know and rely on the church, to really be a part of its body, of its identity.
I knew that I was not starting another Pentecostal church. I was starting a church that would be truly ecumenical. I had asked the religious backgrounds of those first twelve. They were Catholic, Episcopal, and of various Protestant sects.  I fervently sought to serve a really broad spectrum of our population. It would have to be a church that most could understand and easily identify with, and accept it as not being unusual or odd. It seemed to me that it should be traditional, almost like those they attended in childhood, or not too different from that.
It had to be completely honest. I knew that I couldn’t play games.
My sermons would have to do as they had always done, relate to the Scriptures and to God. This, I knew, would be the hard part. I am not an intellectual. I have never claimed to be the type of speaker that required the listeners to bring a dictionary to each session. I always regarded myself as a preacher, not as a teacher. Now, I knew that I must be both, especially for those who came to church either for the first time or after years of having no contact with God or established religion. But I also had to reestablish old links with God, but do it in a new way, that would be meaningful in our community.
Although I became the pastor and founder, I don’t really feel like a pastor, at least not in the sense I’m used to thinking of pastoring. A pastor has all the time in the world to devote to his congregation and knows all of them on a first-name basis. I used to be that way, but it wasn’t long before we’d grown so much that it was impossible. I am an exhorter, a preacher from the pulpit, an evangelist.
We kept our ad running in The Advocate. And we also got some great news coverage from that paper. We were news in the gay community. Most regular papers, especially the religious columns, ignored us. They felt that if they just ignored us, we weren’t there.  People kept coming, and we kept growing. We were still holding services in my home and my house was bursting at the seams. We were looking for another place to hold services. We needed help on all fronts. I needed other theological minds to help me really finalize the way it was all developing.
And God brought them to us. One day, a fellow called and asked to meet with me. I met at a nearby coffee shop. We sat down and ordered. We were alone over in a corner, as he had suggested. The coffee came, and I said, “What’s on your mind?”
“I’m a minister, also,” he replied. “I teach at a Christian college in this area, where I am a dean. But it struck me that what you’re doing is a needed step in a new direction. And I am interested in participating.”
We had a long conversation, and that’s how my first ministerial recruit came in. There have been so many others, but the Reverend Richard Ploen was the first. One reason I was so glad to have him along was because of his education, and because of his work as a missionary. I knew that he would be invaluable in helping to set up an educational program.
We needed a really intensive ongoing program in Christian education, and Richard Ploen dug right in. His background intrigued a good many. He had been a missionary in Sudan, Africa. Among his many skills is the ability to use the sign language of the deaf mute. He taught that in MCC, and set up a section where other deaf mutes convey the sermon in sign language. Now others do that work, and teach those courses. Richard has a Master of Divinity degree from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and a Master of Christian Education from the Presbyterian School of Christian Education. He is a tireless scholar, and certainly a solid pillar of Christianity.
We had little trouble with doctrine. It was a church of doing: do love your God, do stand tall, do walk proud, do love your neighbor as yourself. These were the kinds of things that we wanted to state positively. And because of the large number of Catholic, Episcopal, and Lutheran people in our congregation, we relied rather heavily on those rituals.
Then we began to organize.
We decided upon such standard procedures as the one for communion. It would always be an open communion. We would always state that it was. We would extend an invitation for all to come to the Lord’s table. We would prepare ourselves by an open act of confession. We would ask for absolution, and it would be granted. We would then participate in the act of supping at the Lord’s table, by taking bread dipped in wine.
We utilized the books of worship from the Episcopal, Presbyterian and Lutheran churches as well as those that members of the congregation wanted considered. We experimented and we accommodated. It may sound like a hodgepodge, but what emerged was a straight line of well-organized ritual that allows for improvisation or change should any occasion within the church warrant it.
But it is not the mechanics of worship that we were concerned with. It was the substance of the act of worship that was the core of our service. We did have diversity. We needed that.
Ours was a working church, an active, growing church. We knew that the worship of God comes from the heart. So we were always free to move and grow. That’s the way it has always been. We felt that the diversity and the freedom and the real sincerity of worship would bring us together in unity. It has. We started a magazine called “In Unity.” Later that became “Keeping In Touch.” And with the advent of the Internet, it became a digital, e-mail newsletter which is today called “LeaderLink.” When we finally obtained our charter, it was as the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. In that organization we establish missions and new congregations, and our whole program of social, economic and political action.
We were about ten weeks old when we really had to move to accommodate the crowds. We had three dozen every Sunday. We were in our infancy, but we were thriving. Nothing could stop us. We all felt the thrill of discovery, and the occasional clumsiness of growing pains. We knew that we stood on the threshold of great things. God was leading us, and God was moving. We had to do God’s bidding.
People came out of the shadows, out of the closets, out of the half-world. They were drawn to the Metropolitan Community Church. For what?
Some were curious.
Some were incredulous.
We were new.
We were a novelty.
We were an item in the gay world.
We were ignored in the straight world.
But not everyone in the straight world pretended we were not there. Sociologists, professional people, teachers, professors, psychologists and the enlightened came. They made a great and lasting contribution.
Our church provided a feeling of freedom to worship, to walk with God. We knew that we were on God’s side because God loved us, too. We excluded no one. We welcomed everyone. We still do. Heterosexuals came to our first services. They do today. At least 20% of our congregation is heterosexual. Their involvement is as great as anyone’s.
And we’ve never stopped growing, not since that first service. God has blessed. Today there are almost 300 MCC congregations in 22 countries around the world. More than 43,000 people consider themselves members or adherents of Metropolitan Community churches — and MCC has touched he lives of hundreds of thousands of people over the past 36 years.
I am convinced that so long as we stay faithful to God’s calling and to God’s word, God will continue to bless Metropolitan Community Churches. There’s an old saying that goes,
“The future is as bright as the promises of God.”
And I believe that with all my heart. I really believe that.
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This 4-part document was released in Fall, 2004.  Compiled of interviews and writings of Rev. Elder Troy Perry,
Founder and Moderator of MCC, this series tells the story of MCC’s beginnings from his perspective.
Introduction
In 1968, a year before New York’s Stonewall Riots, a series of most unlikely events in Southern California resulted in the birth of the world’s first church group with a primary, positive ministry to gays, lesbians, bisexual, and transgender persons.
Those events, a failed relationship, an attempted suicide, a reconnection with God, an unexpected prophecy, and the birth of a dream led to MCC’s first worship service: a gathering of 12 people in Rev. Troy Perry’s living room in Huntington Park, California on October 6, 1968.
That first worship service in a Los Angeles suburb in 1968 launched the international movement of Metropolitan Community Churches, which today has grown to 43,000 members and adherents in almost 300 congregations in 22 countries. During the past 36 years, MCC’s prophetic witness has forever changed the face of Christianity and helped to fuel the international struggle for LGBT rights and equality
These edited excerpts are from “The Lord Is My Shepherd, And He Knows I’m Gay” authored by MCC Founder and Moderator, Rev. Troy D. Perry.
Prelude
In the early 1960s, Rev. Perry was defrocked as a clergyperson by a Pentecostal denomination because of his homosexuality. He spent the next several years struggling to reconcile his sexuality and his Christian spirituality.
In Part I, Rev. Perry describes the events that preceded the first worship MCC service:
A failed romance.
An attempted suicide.
A reconnection with God.
An unexpected prophecy.
And the birth of a dream…
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Part One
Troy Perry had fallen deeply in love with as young man named Benny. Perry was stunned when Benny came home one day and announced the relationship was over.
I looked at him and I asked, “Benny, is it really over?”  He looked at me, and smiled, and said, “Yes, It is.” And it sounded so final. My world just came tumbling down. I felt so completely lost.
I felt like a total failure at everything.  I felt that there was no one I could talk to. I felt shut off from everyone. Nothing seemed worth anything anymore. Nothing had any value. There seemed to be no future. Only darkness.
But I wanted to pull myself together. I went into the bathroom and shaved. And then I started crying. I just couldn’t stop. I sat down and sobbed. I felt naked, and there was absolutely no one around me. I felt deserted by everyone and everything that I had ever known. It was hopeless—useless to even try to go on. I couldn’t even remember God. I felt as though God did not exist, so why even try to pray? I had lost something — someone — I had loved more than anything else in the world.
That was the problem, of course. Benny had taken God’s place. I had equated him with God. I had allowed him to take the place of God in my life. I had made the mistake of placing a human being before God.
In my despair, I felt that I had no choices open to me. There was no tomorrow. There was not even the present. I got up and tried to pull myself together. I opened the medicine cabinet. The first thing I saw was the razor blade.  I took it in my hands. I stared at it. This was the instrument of the Angel of Death. I staggered. I managed to get into the tub; I felt totally numb. Somehow I managed to slowly and deliberately press the blade through the skin and into the flesh of my wrists. The veins popped and yielded up their dark fluid. It was thicker than I expected, and darker. I had physical sensations of numbness growing upon me. I drifted off to sleep, even though I was not at all aware of it.
The dream drifted on; I had a sense of being alive, but of being asleep, of drifting, of fading, and of being heavier and heavier. The dream became a troubled nightmare. Somewhere out there I could hear screaming. Scream after scream filtered through to me, but I couldn’t respond.
Later, I learned that Benny, the person with whom I had broken up, had come into the bathroom and discovered me in the grisly mess I had made. He screamed and ran next door to the neighbors. Well, my neighbor Marianne and a couple of her sons charged in there and took over. They tied my wrists up with cloths and rushed me off to the emergency hospital. I ended up at the Los Angeles County General Hospital.
By the time I got there, I had regained consciousness and I had really gone all to pieces. I didn’t know whether I would live or die. And I was scared. If ever I went through a nervous breakdown, that must have been it. I cried for at least three hours while waiting for some kind of medical attention. The emergency cases were really lined up.
Well, I was sitting there, crying uncontrollably, when someone walked in front of me and stood there for a minute. I was aware of this person, like a shadow before me. This person reached down and stuck a religious magazine into my hands and said, “Here. Some of us care about you!”
I looked up dumbly, and stared at this black woman. Her words hit me like a slap in the face. It snapped me out of my depression, just to hear that someone cared.
Then the woman turned and left. I never knew her name, but when I was aware that she had gone, I remembered God. My mind started working, just like someone had thrown a switch inside it. I finally recalled that I had forgotten all about God. There was still God. It had been so long since I really knew absolutely that God did exist.
I stopped crying, I looked at my soggily bandaged wrists and said, “All right, Lord, I’ve made some terrible mistakes. You just help me with them.” I felt a weight go out of my life.  My whole attitude toward God and death and life had shifted. I knew that God cared about me and that God was with me, all the way – wherever that would lead me.
During those days, I grew to rely heavily on my friend and roommate, Willie Smith, who took a keen interest in me. He’d been working the night I had tried to commit suicide. He didn’t know anything about it until noon the next day. It shook him. But he stood by me.
And my next-door neighbors were of great help. Marianne and her sons were so eager to help me. They kept a close watch on me. One of Marianne’s great friends was a black woman who was a minister and of whom she often spoke.  Well, I finally met her minister friend. She was small and direct, and her name was Vera Hockset. And she was truly amazing. She had remarkable, God-given insight into people’s lives.
So one Sunday afternoon, I finally met Vera. She asked how everything was going with me.
And I said, “Oh I’m just fine.”
She looked at me directly and said, “Well, not really.”
Well, that shook me up a little.
I talked with Vera and her sincerity moved me and touched my heart somehow. Vera went on,
“Do you have some relative that was a minister? A deceased relative?
I told her, “Yes, I had a great-uncle who is deceased, and he was a Pentecostal minister.”
Vera went on to say, “You’re a minister. You always have been, and it won’t be long before you will be pastoring a church.”
I just laughed. I said, “No, I’ll never pastor a church.”
She looked sternly at me and said, “Oh, yes you will. God has a ministry for you.”
That stunned me. All my life I’d always been told that by people who really knew me. And here was a total stranger telling me the same thing. My Auntie Bea used to say the same thing over and over. I remembered that Auntie Bea had one time said, “The Lord has a ministry for you. A great ministry, but it won’t be the church you’re currently in.”
I smiled at Vera and said, “No, that’ll never happen.”
But she topped my smile with one of her own that came from her own basic understanding and warmth. She started to tell me many things about myself — she told me more than anyone could possibly have known about me. It really rocked me, and I knew that his was no ordinary woman.
She had powers of insight that must have come from God.
During this time I prayed a great deal. And the Lord began to deal with me. Things became easier. My attitudes shifted. Finally with God’s help and understanding, I became convinced that He was moving me to a mission, that a vision of that mission would be revealed to me. And I knew that when it came, I must never look back; I would never have to. My journey would be forward. My course would be clear. I would know my work. It would be hard, but I would spend my life at it.
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Part Two
In 1968, Troy Perry was stunned when his lover Benny announced that their relationship was over. In his desperation and depression Perry attempted suicide. Following the failed suicide attempt, Perry experienced a renewed sense of spirituality. He began to pray again. And he was perplexed by the words of a stranger who prophesied, “God has a ministry for you. You are going to pastor a church.” At that time, that was far from Troy Perry’s mind. He picks up the story by sharing events that took place after the attempted suicide.
I prayed and I could feel God’s presence. God was the source of power, authority, warmth and understanding. God was the force of good, of energy, of creative positive happenings.  After my suicide attempt, I would hit the gay spots once in a while. Usually I went with my friend and roommate, Willie Smith, on his nights off.
I developed a friendship with a young man by the name of Carlos. We used to talk about our basic beliefs, but Carlos would never even let me make any mention of religious beliefs. He had mentioned that he had belonged to a church, but, he agreed with Willie Smith, for him it was not the answer.
Then Carlos got arrested by the police.
For what? …Well, just for buying beer in a gay bar. He had done absolutely nothing else. It was the way the police used to harass the gay community. He was there with me, and with a couple of friends of ours. It was so unjust.
Here’s what happened:
Carlos bought a couple of beers and came back to our table, and started to sit down. A police officer in plain clothes walked up to him, flashed a badge, and said, “Come outside with me!”
They took Carlos outside, along with another friend of ours, Bill. Both men were charged with lewd conduct, handcuffed, frisked, and hauled off to jail.
We moved fast.
Some of us went right down to the jail. Now this was eleven o’clock at night. I knew Carlos had done nothing wrong. He hadn’t broken any law, and I am convinced of that to this day. But it took me until 5:30 AM to get Carlos released. It was all due to delaying tactics by the police. The booking procedure, the mug shots, the fingerprinting, just took hours. It was part of the harassment that took place far too often against the gay community in those days.
When I finally saw Carlos, I could tell he was more shaken up that I was. And I was really upset.
I took Carlos home with me. I wanted him to get cleaned up, pulled together, and have something to eat. Then we’d plan what we were going to do.
Carlos said, “You know something? I’ve never been arrested before for anything in my life.  Never! And I’m 26 years old now. The police kept telling me they are going to call my employer and tell him I’m gay. I’ll probably lose my job. You know, Troy, I’ve learned one thing from this experience: People don’t really care. Nobody likes a queer.”
I tried to be helpful. “Well, Carlos, even if people don’t, I’m still convinced that God cares about you.”
Carlos just laughed bitterly. “Come on, Troy. God doesn’t care about me.”
With that, he turned and left. And when he left, I felt the weight of his disaster upon me.
I had made my way back to God enough to know that I could talk to God. So I knelt down and said, “All right God, if it’s Your will; if You want me to see a church started as an outreach into our community, You just let me know when.” And I heard a still small voice within me say,
“Now!”
My course was set! I had to fight to keep it from occupying all of my thoughts while I was at work. I knew that the mission was coming into focus. God wanted me to start a new church that would reach into the gay community, but that would include anyone and everyone who believed in the true spirit of God’s love, peace, and forgiveness.
My learning experience sped up. The Lord was really getting me ready. I knew that the word “church” would be in the title. In my free time, I used to think and pray about what kind of church God wanted me to found. I would sit in that little office in back of the yardage department at Sears and pray and think and dream.  I knew God wanted a church where God could move. I think that’s why “church” was always in the title. Then I would ask the Lord if it was to be really an outreach into the gay community. So the word “community” got into the title. The more I thought about it, the more I liked it. Community meant a feeling of comradeship, a small area, a place where you knew everybody. So, it would be a community church. We would also serve a large community; we would serve all of the Los Angeles area. Los Angeles is a large urban area, so the word “metropolitan” finally came to mind, and it stuck.
Then I had to worry about how I was going to reach the gay community.

There’s always the grapevine, but church services and religion aren’t usually part of that.
During this time of planning and preparing, I was such a happy individual. Willie Smith saw me walking around the house humming, smiling, and full of energy. He nailed me about it one day.
He said, “What’s eating on you?
So, I leveled with him. I said, “Well, Willie I’m sure that God wants me to start a new church.”
Willie just collapsed and said, “Oh, my God, I thought you were over all that silliness.”
I said, “Wait a minute, Willie. This is a church for us, it will serve the homosexuals, the gay community.”
Well, Willie thought that was crazy. He said, “You mean you really are serious about this religious stuff?”
I assured him that I was. I said, “I know, Willie, that it’s the thing to do. I’ve got to try and see if I can’t bring a message, God’s message, to all the gay people.”
What Willie wanted to know was this: “How are you going to organize a bunch of queens, and get them to follow any religion, or any person, or do anything together? You know how bitchy we are. We always act individually. Nobody has ever organized the gay community into anything and accomplished anything. It’s ridiculous.”
I told Willie I would go ahead anyway. “And,” I added, “we’ll do it right here.”
Willie was horrified.
He said, “You’ve got to be kidding. I’m already too much for Huntington Park. And you’re going to have all those faggots from Hollywood down here running in and out of our house to attend church services? The neighborhood just can’t take the strain!”
He just looked at me again, and said, “Okay. If you’re going to do it, go ahead. But don’t be too disappointed if it doesn’t happen. Helping queens get religion isn’t anybody’s bag.”
Then he added, “But if it does work…count me in.”
So I asked Lee Glaze, owner of The Patch gay bar, about it. Lee thought it would be just great. I asked him what he thought was the best way to reach the gay community. He thought it over.
While he was thinking, I said, “I’m going to advertise it in The Advocate, I guess. What do you think about it?”
He said, “That’s a great idea. As a matter of fact, it happens that the editor of The Advocate and his lover are here in The Patch tonight. Would you like to meet them?”
I was eager to, so I went into Lee’s side office near the bar. He brought in Dick and Bill, and made the introductions. We started talking and I explained my plans. They were skeptical about what I was trying to do. Was this some kind of business venture? Just what was I up to? They weren’t sure that they wanted to sell me any advertising at all. So I really gave them my pitch. And when we finished, they not only took the ad, they gave me a good rate on it. They also told me that they might, just might, even attend a service at Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), if it ever got started.
Now at that time, The Advocate was published only once a month. I decided I would advertise in the October issue which would hit the street the last week of September. So, I set the date for my first service. It was October 6, 1968. I had about two weeks between the publication of the first ad and the first worship service.
Just about ten days before the first service, my mother came down to see me. She and her husband were separating, and she was going to go back home to Florida for a vacation. She knew of my suicide attempt, of course, and she kept much closer contact with me. I visited her as frequently as I could.
Again, I’m going to have her tell, in her own words; something of the way she saw it.
“One day, I visited with Troy at his home in Huntington Park. He seemed kind of distracted and I was afraid that he was losing interest in his faith, in any kind of church or religion. And we were talking. I said to him, ‘Troy, have you ever thought about starting a church?’ Well, that stunned him. I guess I must have really read his mind. But we were talking, and he told me that a friend of his had been arrested — busted as they call it — on some kind of homosexual charge or other.
And he told how much that boy needed help. And I said to Troy, ‘Well, haven’t you ever thought about starting a church for homosexuals?’ Well, a change came over him, and he looked at me and that was it. He said that that was just what he had been praying about and that was what he was going to do. He looked so fierce and intent. He said that it had been uppermost in his mind for several weeks.”
So I began to share my dream for the church with the gays and lesbians. They almost all had the same reaction that Willie Smith had had. Some told me to forget it. We had gone through generations, even centuries, of that awful conviction that if you were a homosexual you could not be a child of God; you could not be a Christian.
I knew I was really shoveling sand against the tide to get started.
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Part Three
In 1968, Troy Perry was stunned when his lover Benny announced that their relationship was over. In his desperation and depression Perry attempted suicide. Following the failed suicide attempt, Perry experienced a renewed sense of spirituality. He began to pray again. And he was perplexed by the words of a stranger who prophesied, “God has a ministry for you. You are going to pastor a church.” At that time, that was the far from Troy Perry’s mind. Around the same time, a gay friend of Perry’s was harassed and arrested by the police. In his desperation, the young man said to Troy. “God doesn’t care. God doesn’t care about gay people.” That spurred Perry to hold the very first MCC worship service.
That first Sunday church service finally arrived — October 6, 1968.
I stood nervously watching the door, worried to death. I had cleaned out the living room, set up some chairs, used the coffee table for an alter. I had borrowed a robe from the Congregationalist minister that I had helped out previously. He insisted that I had to preach in a robe for that first service. I had borrowed some trays from some very close friends, Steve and his lover, Lynn. These were for communion. I set up everything, and stood in the kitchen.
Our house was one of those “shotgun” houses: From the front door, you could see all the way back. You could see right through to the back room. I could stand in the kitchen and look all the way down the hall way to the front door. I paced nervously around in my borrowed robe and clutched the Bible and thumbed through it and riffled the pages. Then, people began to gather.
My roommate and dear friend Willie Smith let them in. He greeted them, and saw that they sat down. One friend of ours brought his straight brother and the brother’s girlfriend. Other people showed. Most had heard about it, but finally, three people showed up who had read the ad in The Advocate.
There were 12 people in the living room, and I walked out, and asked everyone to stand up, and I said, “We’ll go before the Lord in prayer.” We joined hands and prayed. Then I said, “We’ll sing some hymns.”  I invited everyone to turn to a page in the book. We’d borrowed the hymnals from the Congregationalist church where I had been a guest preacher the previous Easter.  No one knew what to expect. Everyone was as scared as I was. They all waited around for me to lead the singing and sing out. So I did.  My mother always used to say, “My boys don’t sing too well, but they sure sing loud.” And that was never more true.
As we sang, I recalled my neighbor Marianne Johnston’s reaction to the church. She thought it was a lovely idea, but she said, “You’ll be raided during your first service.”
I laughed and said, “Well, I wish the police would come in. It wouldn’t bother me at all.”
We sang several hymns. We sounded a little thin and tinny, but the spirit was what counted. We didn’t have a piano or any kind of accompaniment.  Willie Smith was there, but he wasn’t sure he wanted to be a part of it. He still didn’t know just what to think.
I recall I had assured Willie, just before we started, that God was in this. I said, “I know now that I’m going to be in God’s perfect will. Not God’s permissive will as I as in my past life.”
Well, we prayed again and then I relaxed.
I introduced myself.
I told about where I was born, my age, my name, my marriage, my sons, my religious background, where I went to high school and college. I talked about the churches I had pastored in Florida, Illinois and California. I said that one in Santa Ana had been the last I pastored in 1963, and here we were now, after my army hitch. I told them that I was a division manager with one of the largest retailers in Los Angeles, and that I would continue as such until the church was large enough to support a full-time minister. Even then, I was sure that that time would come.
Then I introduced the church.
I said the church was organized to serve the religious, spiritual and social needs of the homosexual community of greater Los Angeles, but I expected to grow to reach homosexuals wherever they might be. I made it clear that we were not a gay church — we were a Christian church, and I said that in my first sermon. I also told them that we would be a general Protestant church to be all-inclusive. Then I prayed again.
And then I went into my Biblical message.
My sermon was entitled, “Be True to You.” It was actually inspired by Polonius’ advice to his son, Laertes, when the young man was about to leave. It’s early in Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, and it’s from those lines that go:
“This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
I then moved from Shakespeare to the story of Job, to the Book of Job, chapter 19, verses 1-26, and I read them aloud.
“Oh that my words were now written!  Oh that they were printed in a book!  That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!  For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:  And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.”
Job had learned to be true to himself. He never wavered once he made up his mind, and knew that he was called of God. His friends came and told him that he must have sinned for some reason or he wouldn’t be visited by all these things that plagued him.  He lost his family.
Everything terrible happened to him. But Job’s remark to them was, “Though God slay me, yet I’ll trust in God. I’ll come forth as pure as gold.”  Even going through the refiner’s fire, he knew that he would make it. And I knew that we at Metropolitan Community Church could do that too.
I also preached about David and Goliath. David said that the same God that protected him when he had to do battle once with a bear, and once with a lion would protect him again.  Even when things look awfully bad to us in the gay community, God can help.  And we can win, even though it looks like everything is stacked against us. So, I said, “Be true to you.  Believe in yourself, and believe in God. You have to believe in yourself as a human being first, and then God is able to help you. You are not just an individual in circumstances, but you always are the created being of God.”
I pointed out that we must be humble, spiritual human beings first, homosexuals second. We must love and build, free ourselves, and free others from their feelings against us. I closed my sermon with a quote from the Epistle of St. Paul, the Apostle to the Philippians, fourth chapter, thirteenth verse, which says,
“I can do all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me!”
After I finished preaching, I closed my Bible, and I knew that God was in the place.
I prayed again, and then I looked up and said, “We’re going to have open communion,” there wasn’t a dry eye in the place. A hush fell over the place and everybody in that small living room was weeping silently. We all felt that we were a part of something great. God was preparing to move. We were to see God’s handiwork, and that would be unbelievable.
I offered communion. Only three came forward to take the bread and wine, but they were weeping. And then I served communion to myself.
We dismissed with a prayer of benediction. Then I invited everyone to stay for coffee and cake.
We gathered and we just couldn’t quit crying. We all sat around and said we had felt the spirit of the Lord. One young man came up to me, and said, “Oh, Troy, God was here this morning!  I haven’t been in a church in eight years. And even when I left the church, the one I’d been in, I never felt anything like I felt here this morning, in this living room.”
When that service was finally over, Willie Smith said that he had really been moved by it. He insisted that he didn’t know yet about whether the church would actually take a hold and grow.
I said, “Willie, only God knows the answer to that.”
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The first MCC service took place on October 6, 1968. Rev. Troy Perry’s friend and roommate, Willie Smith, was skeptical of Perry’s plans for a church that would minister to the GLBT communities. But after the very first service, Smith’s thinking began to change:
After that first service, Willie’s heart began to change. He said, “This MCC church just might work out, and I want you to know I’m with you all the way, 100%. And I’ll do anything I can to make it work.”
And he did.  He started right then.
For the next Sunday, he scrounged up a phonograph and records of some religious music so that we could all sing to it. Aside from being an ace projectionist, Willie was also a singer, and music director. He made that his job with the new church.
The next Sunday, we were 14 instead of 12. I got up and looked around and said, “If you love the Lord this morning would you say ‘amen!'” They all shouted “amen” back to me. It’s been that way, too, since then. I also praised the Lord because we were growing.
The next Sunday we had 16 and I got up and said, “Well look at this. Thank you Jesus, we’re on the move!”
But, the fourth Sunday we had only nine, and I almost died. But here again, God had prepared me. He gave me a sermon entitled, “Despise Not the Day of Small Things.” And God gave me that sermon for Troy Perry, not for anyone there.
Lee, a friend from my army days, and now one of the regulars, said, “That morning, when you looked out in the group, and saw that it had shrunk, I could tell that you were upset. You got up and you preached, and you preached as though you meant it. I could tell you really meant it.”
I said, “Well, that was a sermon God gave especially for me.” The next Sunday we had 22 in attendance.
We’d jumped back up in attendance, and we’ve never dropped since.
As we started to grow and attract people from all kinds of different backgrounds, I knew that we would have to begin settling problems of organization, administration, doctrine and the church services. They had to be settled soon, so that everyone would be able to know and rely on the church, to really be a part of its body, of its identity.
I knew that I was not starting another Pentecostal church. I was starting a church that would be truly ecumenical. I had asked the religious backgrounds of those first twelve. They were Catholic, Episcopal, and of various Protestant sects.  I fervently sought to serve a really broad spectrum of our population. It would have to be a church that most could understand and easily identify with, and accept it as not being unusual or odd. It seemed to me that it should be traditional, almost like those they attended in childhood, or not too different from that.
It had to be completely honest. I knew that I couldn’t play games.
My sermons would have to do as they had always done, relate to the Scriptures and to God. This, I knew, would be the hard part. I am not an intellectual. I have never claimed to be the type of speaker that required the listeners to bring a dictionary to each session. I always regarded myself as a preacher, not as a teacher. Now, I knew that I must be both, especially for those who came to church either for the first time or after years of having no contact with God or established religion. But I also had to reestablish old links with God, but do it in a new way, that would be meaningful in our community.
Although I became the pastor and founder, I don’t really feel like a pastor, at least not in the sense I’m used to thinking of pastoring. A pastor has all the time in the world to devote to his congregation and knows all of them on a first-name basis. I used to be that way, but it wasn’t long before we’d grown so much that it was impossible. I am an exhorter, a preacher from the pulpit, an evangelist.
We kept our ad running in The Advocate. And we also got some great news coverage from that paper. We were news in the gay community. Most regular papers, especially the religious columns, ignored us. They felt that if they just ignored us, we weren’t there.  People kept coming, and we kept growing. We were still holding services in my home and my house was bursting at the seams. We were looking for another place to hold services. We needed help on all fronts. I needed other theological minds to help me really finalize the way it was all developing.
And God brought them to us. One day, a fellow called and asked to meet with me. I met at a nearby coffee shop. We sat down and ordered. We were alone over in a corner, as he had suggested. The coffee came, and I said, “What’s on your mind?”
“I’m a minister, also,” he replied. “I teach at a Christian college in this area, where I am a dean. But it struck me that what you’re doing is a needed step in a new direction. And I am interested in participating.”
We had a long conversation, and that’s how my first ministerial recruit came in. There have been so many others, but the Reverend Richard Ploen was the first. One reason I was so glad to have him along was because of his education, and because of his work as a missionary. I knew that he would be invaluable in helping to set up an educational program.
We needed a really intensive ongoing program in Christian education, and Richard Ploen dug right in. His background intrigued a good many. He had been a missionary in Sudan, Africa. Among his many skills is the ability to use the sign language of the deaf mute. He taught that in MCC, and set up a section where other deaf mutes convey the sermon in sign language. Now others do that work, and teach those courses. Richard has a Master of Divinity degree from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and a Master of Christian Education from the Presbyterian School of Christian Education. He is a tireless scholar, and certainly a solid pillar of Christianity.
We had little trouble with doctrine. It was a church of doing: do love your God, do stand tall, do walk proud, do love your neighbor as yourself. These were the kinds of things that we wanted to state positively. And because of the large number of Catholic, Episcopal, and Lutheran people in our congregation, we relied rather heavily on those rituals.
Then we began to organize.
We decided upon such standard procedures as the one for communion. It would always be an open communion. We would always state that it was. We would extend an invitation for all to come to the Lord’s table. We would prepare ourselves by an open act of confession. We would ask for absolution, and it would be granted. We would then participate in the act of supping at the Lord’s table, by taking bread dipped in wine.
We utilized the books of worship from the Episcopal, Presbyterian and Lutheran churches as well as those that members of the congregation wanted considered. We experimented and we accommodated. It may sound like a hodgepodge, but what emerged was a straight line of well-organized ritual that allows for improvisation or change should any occasion within the church warrant it.
But it is not the mechanics of worship that we were concerned with. It was the substance of the act of worship that was the core of our service. We did have diversity. We needed that.
Ours was a working church, an active, growing church. We knew that the worship of God comes from the heart. So we were always free to move and grow. That’s the way it has always been. We felt that the diversity and the freedom and the real sincerity of worship would bring us together in unity. It has. We started a magazine called “In Unity.” Later that became “Keeping In Touch.” And with the advent of the Internet, it became a digital, e-mail newsletter which is today called “LeaderLink.” When we finally obtained our charter, it was as the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. In that organization we establish missions and new congregations, and our whole program of social, economic and political action.
We were about ten weeks old when we really had to move to accommodate the crowds. We had three dozen every Sunday. We were in our infancy, but we were thriving. Nothing could stop us. We all felt the thrill of discovery, and the occasional clumsiness of growing pains. We knew that we stood on the threshold of great things. God was leading us, and God was moving. We had to do God’s bidding.
People came out of the shadows, out of the closets, out of the half-world. They were drawn to the Metropolitan Community Church. For what?
Some were curious.
Some were incredulous.
We were new.
We were a novelty.
We were an item in the gay world.
We were ignored in the straight world.
But not everyone in the straight world pretended we were not there. Sociologists, professional people, teachers, professors, psychologists and the enlightened came. They made a great and lasting contribution.
Our church provided a feeling of freedom to worship, to walk with God. We knew that we were on God’s side because God loved us, too. We excluded no one. We welcomed everyone. We still do. Heterosexuals came to our first services. They do today. At least 20% of our congregation is heterosexual. Their involvement is as great as anyone’s.
And we’ve never stopped growing, not since that first service. God has blessed. Today there are almost 300 MCC congregations in 22 countries around the world. More than 43,000 people consider themselves members or adherents of Metropolitan Community churches — and MCC has touched he lives of hundreds of thousands of people over the past 36 years.
I am convinced that so long as we stay faithful to God’s calling and to God’s word, God will continue to bless Metropolitan Community Churches. There’s an old saying that goes,
“The future is as bright as the promises of God.”
And I believe that with all my heart. I really believe that.
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MCC began as a fellowship of churches, each church linked to another through affiliation as an open and inclusive body.  Collectively, MCC churches offer a picture of Christianity and religion which celebrates God’s diverse creativity.  At our foundation, MCC brings to bear the co-existence and complementary relationship of sexuality and spirituality; initially bringing the message of God’s love to homosexual persons.  As MCC’s message of love and inclusion in God’s creation brought our churches into a variety of countries and cultures, our particular devotion to human rights and justice extended our gospel message to issues of human sexuality, gender identity, race, poverty, and more.
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Rev. Elder Dr. Mona West (ex officio) – RevMonaWest@MCCchurch.net
Marina Laws, Staff – MarinaLaws@MCCchurch.net

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ADVISORY COUNCILS
YOUNG ADULTS
(under 35 years of age)
Kedric Brown
Alex Pittaway
Rachel Meyer
Rev. Brian Hutchison
Rev. Melissa L Smithee
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bios  OLDER ADULTS
(over 50 years of age)
Dr. Imani Woody-Macko, (Program Officer)
Annette Beall
Robert Collins
Alan Dismore
Rev. Elder Freda Smith
Rev. Dr. Danny Spears
https://www.facebook.com/groups/424311240994443/ read
bios 
   
PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT
Rev. Candy Holmes, (Program Officer)
Rev. Brendan Boone
Lessie Henderson
Denise Junious
Rev. Roland Stringfellow
https://www.facebook.com/groups/287161817875/ read
bios  ACCESSIBILITY
Rev. Mel Martinez, (Program Officer)
Rev. Houston Burnside
Brett Doig
Dr. Constance Kay
Rev. Darren McDonald
Rev. Edwin Yates
https://www.facebook.com/groups/536086343122866/ read
bios 
   
TRANS*/GENDER NON-CONFORMING PEOPLE
Angel Collie, (Program Officer)
Rev. Norma Gann
Miller Hoffman
Jake Kopmeier
Zach McCallum
Rev. Aaron Miller
Stacy Sandberg
Steve Sills
Rev. Mykal Slack
Julie Walsh
https://www.facebook.com/MCC4All  read
bios WOMEN
Rev. Jackie Carter, (Program Officer)
Rev. Marian Cavagnaro
Lisa Kelson
Carmen Llanos
Rev. Dr. Joan Saniuk
https://www.facebook.com/groups/635285473150734/ read
bios 
   
HETEROSEXUAL INCLUSION
Rev. Collen Foley, (Program Officer)
Rev. Mary Cantrell
Emily Worman
https://www.facebook.com/TheBridgeMCC read
bios  HIV/AIDS
Preben Bakbo Sloth
Georgia Lacy
Rev. Jeffery Jordan Pickett
Carl Krysa
Dr. David Williams
https://www.facebook.com/groups/496433260439615/ read
bios 
   
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GLOBAL JUSTICE PUBLIC POLICY TEAM
Rev. Pat Bumgardner, Chair – rvpatmccny@aol.com
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Rev. Jorge Delgado, Ph.D. –  Jorgedelgadorivas@hotmail.com
Rev. Dr. Robert Griffin – rogertg@aol.com
Rev. Dr. Jim Merritt – RevJim@thecommunityactivist.com
Rev. Dr. Renee McCoy – renee.mccoy2@gmail.com
Kareem Murphy – murphman72@yahoo.com
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(Click Here for the Theologies Team Website)
Appointed by the Moderator
[Rev. Elder Dr. Nancy Wilson – RevNancyWilson@MCCchurch.net]
Rev. Dr. Thomas Bohache
Patrice Ford
Rev. Dr. Kelby Harrison
Rev. Maxwell Reay
Bryce E. Rich (chair) – BryceRich@MCCchurch.net
Rev. Margarita Sanchez de Leon
Rev. Dr. Axel Schwaigert
Rev. Elder Dr. Mona West (ex officio) – RevMonaWest@MCCchurch.net
Marina Laws, Staff – MarinaLaws@MCCchurch.net

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ADVISORY COUNCILS
YOUNG ADULTS
(under 35 years of age)
Kedric Brown
Alex Pittaway
Rachel Meyer
Rev. Brian Hutchison
Rev. Melissa L Smithee
https://www.facebook.com/groups/104281196341409/ read
bios  OLDER ADULTS
(over 50 years of age)
Dr. Imani Woody-Macko, (Program Officer)
Annette Beall
Robert Collins
Alan Dismore
Rev. Elder Freda Smith
Rev. Dr. Danny Spears
https://www.facebook.com/groups/424311240994443/ read
bios 
   
PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT
Rev. Candy Holmes, (Program Officer)
Rev. Brendan Boone
Lessie Henderson
Denise Junious
Rev. Roland Stringfellow
https://www.facebook.com/groups/287161817875/ read
bios  ACCESSIBILITY
Rev. Mel Martinez, (Program Officer)
Rev. Houston Burnside
Brett Doig
Dr. Constance Kay
Rev. Darren McDonald
Rev. Edwin Yates
https://www.facebook.com/groups/536086343122866/ read
bios 
   
TRANS*/GENDER NON-CONFORMING PEOPLE
Angel Collie, (Program Officer)
Rev. Norma Gann
Miller Hoffman
Jake Kopmeier
Zach McCallum
Rev. Aaron Miller
Stacy Sandberg
Steve Sills
Rev. Mykal Slack
Julie Walsh
https://www.facebook.com/MCC4All  read
bios WOMEN
Rev. Jackie Carter, (Program Officer)
Rev. Marian Cavagnaro
Lisa Kelson
Carmen Llanos
Rev. Dr. Joan Saniuk
https://www.facebook.com/groups/635285473150734/ read
bios 
   
HETEROSEXUAL INCLUSION
Rev. Collen Foley, (Program Officer)
Rev. Mary Cantrell
Emily Worman
https://www.facebook.com/TheBridgeMCC read
bios  HIV/AIDS
Preben Bakbo Sloth
Georgia Lacy
Rev. Jeffery Jordan Pickett
Carl Krysa
Dr. David Williams
https://www.facebook.com/groups/496433260439615/ read
bios 
   
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/395518530554747/   
   
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Annual Reporting
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MCC Theologies Team Teologías Descriptivas
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Theologies Guiding Principles
Statement of Purpose
Descriptive Theologies
Team Resources
PAD Conference 2014 Atlanta
Progressive Christian Reflections
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Would Jesus Discriminate?
Youth Ministries
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Moderator’s Circle Sign Up
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The MCC Bylaws make up MCC’s primary governance document. It is important that all Lay Delegates and Clergy Delegates to General Conference be able to participate fully in the governance of MCC, which includes being able to offer bylaw amendments and consider proposed changes to the MCC Bylaws.
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2013 General Conference Meeting Minutes
Record of Actions General Conference XXV Business Meeting
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MCC’s Judiciary Process
Click here to visit the webpage dedicated to the Judiciary process of MCC.
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UFMCC BYLAWS – 2013 General Conference
UFMCC Bylaws As Of July 2013
UFMCC Bylaws As Of July 2013 Addendum 1 Procedures for Submitting Bylaw Proposals
UFMCC Bylaws As Of June 2010 Addendum 2 Charter Of The Governing Board
UFMCC Bylaws As Of June 2010 Addendum 3 Criteria For Affiliation
UFMCC Bylaws As Of 24 January 2012_Addendum 4 Judiciary Process
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Estatutos de la FUICM — Conferencia General 2013
Estatutos de la FUICM Julio 2013
Estatutos de la FUICM Julio 2013 Anexo 1 Procedimiento para el Envío de Propuestas a los Estatutos
Como FUICM Estatutos de junio de 2010 Adición 2 Carta de las Junta de Gobierno
Como FUICM Estatutos de junio de 2010 Adición 3 Criterios de Afiliación
UFMCC Bylaws as of 24 January 2012_Addendum 4 Judiciary Process
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UFMCC Bylaw Amendment Forms
Please review the Bylaw Amendment Submission Instructions document listed below prior to completing forms A or B.
Bylaw Amendment GC2016 – Submission Instructions
Bylaw Amendment Form GC2016 – Sponsor Submission Form A
Bylaw Amendment Form GC2016 – Supporter Submission Form B
Bylaw Amendment GC2016 – Proposal Submission Process steps at a glance
BYLAW AMENDMENT PROPOSALS GC2016 Submission Template
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501c3 Letter of Determination
To obtain a copy of MCC’s 501c3 letter of determination, please email Tammy Erwin by clicking here to place your request.
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Diversity & Inclusion Inclusivity Film Series
Worship Resources
Racial Reconciliation
Transgender TRANSformative Church Ministry Program
Trans* Day Of Remembrance
Transgender Youth
Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Children and Youth
Stop Trans Pathologization
Creating a Life that Matters
Church Summits Church Summit Resources
L.E.A.D. Program Plan
Local Church Resources
Church Treasurer’s Manual
Theological Resources
Annual Reporting
Ministries Leadership Development
Global Justice Ministry Center GJ Vision and Mission
MCC Theologies Team Teologías Descriptivas
About the Theologies Team
Meet the Theologies Team
Theologies Guiding Principles
Statement of Purpose
Descriptive Theologies
Team Resources
PAD Conference 2014 Atlanta
Progressive Christian Reflections
Transgender Ministries
Would Jesus Discriminate?
Youth Ministries
Give to MCC Moderator’s Circle Testimonials
Moderator’s Circle Sign Up
Be A Gem
Planned Giving
Disaster Relief
How to Give to MCC
MCC Travel Partners
Judy Dale Scholarship Fund
Connect Now! Job Listings
Staff Directory
Subscribe to Newsletter
Networks
Governance
The MCC Bylaws make up MCC’s primary governance document. It is important that all Lay Delegates and Clergy Delegates to General Conference be able to participate fully in the governance of MCC, which includes being able to offer bylaw amendments and consider proposed changes to the MCC Bylaws.
__
2013 General Conference Meeting Minutes
Record of Actions General Conference XXV Business Meeting
__
MCC’s Judiciary Process
Click here to visit the webpage dedicated to the Judiciary process of MCC.
__
UFMCC BYLAWS – 2013 General Conference
UFMCC Bylaws As Of July 2013
UFMCC Bylaws As Of July 2013 Addendum 1 Procedures for Submitting Bylaw Proposals
UFMCC Bylaws As Of June 2010 Addendum 2 Charter Of The Governing Board
UFMCC Bylaws As Of June 2010 Addendum 3 Criteria For Affiliation
UFMCC Bylaws As Of 24 January 2012_Addendum 4 Judiciary Process
__
Estatutos de la FUICM — Conferencia General 2013
Estatutos de la FUICM Julio 2013
Estatutos de la FUICM Julio 2013 Anexo 1 Procedimiento para el Envío de Propuestas a los Estatutos
Como FUICM Estatutos de junio de 2010 Adición 2 Carta de las Junta de Gobierno
Como FUICM Estatutos de junio de 2010 Adición 3 Criterios de Afiliación
UFMCC Bylaws as of 24 January 2012_Addendum 4 Judiciary Process
__
UFMCC Bylaw Amendment Forms
Please review the Bylaw Amendment Submission Instructions document listed below prior to completing forms A or B.
Bylaw Amendment GC2016 – Submission Instructions
Bylaw Amendment Form GC2016 – Sponsor Submission Form A
Bylaw Amendment Form GC2016 – Supporter Submission Form B
Bylaw Amendment GC2016 – Proposal Submission Process steps at a glance
BYLAW AMENDMENT PROPOSALS GC2016 Submission Template
__
501c3 Letter of Determination
To obtain a copy of MCC’s 501c3 letter of determination, please email Tammy Erwin by clicking here to place your request.
__
Aligned Organizations
Process For Granting Recognition To Aligned Organizations
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Finances
Governance Judiciary Process
Board of Pensions
Governing Board
Council of Elders
Events Resources Emerging Churches in MCC
Diversity & Inclusion Inclusivity Film Series
Worship Resources
Racial Reconciliation
Transgender TRANSformative Church Ministry Program
Trans* Day Of Remembrance
Transgender Youth
Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Children and Youth
Stop Trans Pathologization
Creating a Life that Matters
Church Summits Church Summit Resources
L.E.A.D. Program Plan
Local Church Resources
Church Treasurer’s Manual
Theological Resources
Annual Reporting
Ministries Leadership Development
Global Justice Ministry Center GJ Vision and Mission
MCC Theologies Team Teologías Descriptivas
About the Theologies Team
Meet the Theologies Team
Theologies Guiding Principles
Statement of Purpose
Descriptive Theologies
Team Resources
PAD Conference 2014 Atlanta
Progressive Christian Reflections
Transgender Ministries
Would Jesus Discriminate?
Youth Ministries
Give to MCC Moderator’s Circle Testimonials
Moderator’s Circle Sign Up
Be A Gem
Planned Giving
Disaster Relief
How to Give to MCC
MCC Travel Partners
Judy Dale Scholarship Fund
Connect Now! Job Listings
Staff Directory
Subscribe to Newsletter
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Council of Elders
Elders (four in 2013)“The Council of Elders of the UFMCC is that body authorized by the General Conference to serve in a pastoral role and direct the spiritual life of the Fellowship.”
-MCC Bylaws, Article V.C.3, lines 399-400
Policy Documents
Elders Code of Conduct
Policy And Procedures Regarding Dual Affiliation Of Churches
UFMCC social media policy and guidelines – Final (Jan 2015)
UFMCC Policy On Concurrent Affiliation Of Churches (Dec 2014)
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Concurrent Affiliation Of Churches
Related documents
Minutes of the meeting of the Council of Elders 20131209
Clergy Manual
How are Elders in MCC authorized?
The first MCC Board of Elders was the board of directors of MCC Los Angeles and was all volunteers.  After the first General Conference, Elders were elected by the lay and clergy delegates, with an appointment process for vacancies in between conferences.  Eventually, some Elders were full-time on staff.  They served on a General Council, which was the fiduciary body of MCC at that time.  About 10 years ago, we created a system where Elders were nominated and elected by Regions.  Then, in 2010, we simplified our structure, creating an elected Governing Board and a Council of Elders.  Elders are no longer elected but are appointed by the Moderator, approved by the Governing Board, and affirmed by the General Conference. (Article V.C.3 of the MCC By-laws)
Who can be an Elder?
An Elder can be any member in good standing of MCC, who meets the qualifications, and is appointed by the Moderator.  Those qualifications are:
“Elders must be those individuals of obvious spiritual quality and leadership who are mature, have sound judgment, have a proven record of accomplishment as lay or clergy members within the Fellowship, and have successful experience in envisioning and strategic planning for the future.  Elders must be excellent communicators, skilled motivators and teachers, self-motivated and devoted to continuous learning.  Further, Elders must be capable of understanding and working within sound fiscal guidelines, be sensitive to cultural differences, and be able and willing to embrace diversity.  It is desirable that the Council of Elders reflect the diversity of the Fellowship.”  Article V.C.3.a of the MCC By-laws
What do Elders do today in MCC?
“The primary responsibility of Elders shall be to give pastoral leadership and care to enable the Fellowship in our spiritual journey.  The Elders shall exercise spiritual and pastoral authority to build a shared vision for the UFMCC, prepare UFMCC for the future, and support UFMCC’s strategic direction.  The Elders serve as official representatives of the Fellowship in the areas of public and community relations; provide oversight of and support to congregations; consult with churches on issues related to church development; and fulfill other ecclesial and ceremonial duties.”  Article V.C.3.b. of the MCC By-laws
Elders have two primary roles:
1) As members of the Council of Elders, Elders have an ecclesial role: they oversee the affiliation of churches; and they have authority over the Clergy Manual and protocols for authorizing MCC clergy.  Elders then are key to setting standards and boundaries, based on the by-laws, by which churches and clergy are represented at General Conference.  Elders also oversee the appointment of Network leaders and relate to churches through the Network system.
2) Elders have a spiritual/pastoral and teaching role in the Church: Elders are called upon to develop leadership programs, teach at summits, preach at MCC conferences, church anniversaries, and support MCC in terms of increasing church strength and health; and in strategically supporting new church starts and emerging ministries.  They are looked to as spiritual and pastoral leaders by the pastors, lay leaders and people of MCC.  They may also be asked by the Moderator to represent and to speak for the denomination publicly.
What do Elders “mean” to the people of MCC? 
Elders are gifted individuals who are highly esteemed, respected and who are looked to for wisdom, for embodying and articulating with passion the values, vision, mission, and faith that MCC holds dear.  We expect Elders to challenge us, to offer spiritual, pastoral and organizational leadership.  They are also a symbol of the unity-in-diversity of MCC.  As the Council of Elders, they form a kind of “collegium” of support for the Moderator.  Elders also embody the continuity of the founding narrative of MCC connecting generations of servant leadership.

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Finances
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Board of Pensions
Governing Board
Council of Elders
Events Resources Emerging Churches in MCC
Diversity & Inclusion Inclusivity Film Series
Worship Resources
Racial Reconciliation
Transgender TRANSformative Church Ministry Program
Trans* Day Of Remembrance
Transgender Youth
Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Children and Youth
Stop Trans Pathologization
Creating a Life that Matters
Church Summits Church Summit Resources
L.E.A.D. Program Plan
Local Church Resources
Church Treasurer’s Manual
Theological Resources
Annual Reporting
Ministries Leadership Development
Global Justice Ministry Center GJ Vision and Mission
MCC Theologies Team Teologías Descriptivas
About the Theologies Team
Meet the Theologies Team
Theologies Guiding Principles
Statement of Purpose
Descriptive Theologies
Team Resources
PAD Conference 2014 Atlanta
Progressive Christian Reflections
Transgender Ministries
Would Jesus Discriminate?
Youth Ministries
Give to MCC Moderator’s Circle Testimonials
Moderator’s Circle Sign Up
Be A Gem
Planned Giving
Disaster Relief
How to Give to MCC
MCC Travel Partners
Judy Dale Scholarship Fund
Connect Now! Job Listings
Staff Directory
Subscribe to Newsletter
Networks
Council of Elders
Elders (four in 2013)“The Council of Elders of the UFMCC is that body authorized by the General Conference to serve in a pastoral role and direct the spiritual life of the Fellowship.”
-MCC Bylaws, Article V.C.3, lines 399-400
Policy Documents
Elders Code of Conduct
Policy And Procedures Regarding Dual Affiliation Of Churches
UFMCC social media policy and guidelines – Final (Jan 2015)
UFMCC Policy On Concurrent Affiliation Of Churches (Dec 2014)
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Concurrent Affiliation Of Churches
Related documents
Minutes of the meeting of the Council of Elders 20131209
Clergy Manual
How are Elders in MCC authorized?
The first MCC Board of Elders was the board of directors of MCC Los Angeles and was all volunteers.  After the first General Conference, Elders were elected by the lay and clergy delegates, with an appointment process for vacancies in between conferences.  Eventually, some Elders were full-time on staff.  They served on a General Council, which was the fiduciary body of MCC at that time.  About 10 years ago, we created a system where Elders were nominated and elected by Regions.  Then, in 2010, we simplified our structure, creating an elected Governing Board and a Council of Elders.  Elders are no longer elected but are appointed by the Moderator, approved by the Governing Board, and affirmed by the General Conference. (Article V.C.3 of the MCC By-laws)
Who can be an Elder?
An Elder can be any member in good standing of MCC, who meets the qualifications, and is appointed by the Moderator.  Those qualifications are:
“Elders must be those individuals of obvious spiritual quality and leadership who are mature, have sound judgment, have a proven record of accomplishment as lay or clergy members within the Fellowship, and have successful experience in envisioning and strategic planning for the future.  Elders must be excellent communicators, skilled motivators and teachers, self-motivated and devoted to continuous learning.  Further, Elders must be capable of understanding and working within sound fiscal guidelines, be sensitive to cultural differences, and be able and willing to embrace diversity.  It is desirable that the Council of Elders reflect the diversity of the Fellowship.”  Article V.C.3.a of the MCC By-laws
What do Elders do today in MCC?
“The primary responsibility of Elders shall be to give pastoral leadership and care to enable the Fellowship in our spiritual journey.  The Elders shall exercise spiritual and pastoral authority to build a shared vision for the UFMCC, prepare UFMCC for the future, and support UFMCC’s strategic direction.  The Elders serve as official representatives of the Fellowship in the areas of public and community relations; provide oversight of and support to congregations; consult with churches on issues related to church development; and fulfill other ecclesial and ceremonial duties.”  Article V.C.3.b. of the MCC By-laws
Elders have two primary roles:
1) As members of the Council of Elders, Elders have an ecclesial role: they oversee the affiliation of churches; and they have authority over the Clergy Manual and protocols for authorizing MCC clergy.  Elders then are key to setting standards and boundaries, based on the by-laws, by which churches and clergy are represented at General Conference.  Elders also oversee the appointment of Network leaders and relate to churches through the Network system.
2) Elders have a spiritual/pastoral and teaching role in the Church: Elders are called upon to develop leadership programs, teach at summits, preach at MCC conferences, church anniversaries, and support MCC in terms of increasing church strength and health; and in strategically supporting new church starts and emerging ministries.  They are looked to as spiritual and pastoral leaders by the pastors, lay leaders and people of MCC.  They may also be asked by the Moderator to represent and to speak for the denomination publicly.
What do Elders “mean” to the people of MCC? 
Elders are gifted individuals who are highly esteemed, respected and who are looked to for wisdom, for embodying and articulating with passion the values, vision, mission, and faith that MCC holds dear.  We expect Elders to challenge us, to offer spiritual, pastoral and organizational leadership.  They are also a symbol of the unity-in-diversity of MCC.  As the Council of Elders, they form a kind of “collegium” of support for the Moderator.  Elders also embody the continuity of the founding narrative of MCC connecting generations of servant leadership.

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The Bylaws of
THE UNIVERSAL FELLOWSHIP OF METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCHES
Addendum 4 (Effective 1st of January 2012)
“Metropolitan Community Churches is a beloved community of justice, compassion, and reconciliation. We also seek to be a community of accountability and restoration. We call ourselves to the highest level of professional ethics, especially among our ministry leaders. We strive to hold each other in graceful accountability to authentic, integrated, and embodied ministry with one another and with and among God’s people.”
To read complete Addendum 4 of the MCC Bylaws, click on the document link below.

UFMCC Bylaws as of 24 January 2012_Addendum 4 Judiciary ProcessUFMCC Bylaws as of 24 January 2012_Addendum 4 Judiciary Process
UFMCC Bylaws as of 24 January 2012_Addendum 4 Judiciary Process.docx
Date Updated: 9 April 2012
Category: MCC Bylaws
Date: 9 April 2012

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See below for complete forms and documents regarding MCC’s Judiciary Process as outlined in Addendum 4 of the MCC Bylaws.
Form DP-1 Report Of ConcernForm DP-1 Report Of Concern
Form DP-1 Report of Concern.doc
Date Updated: 2 May 2012
Category: Judiciary Process
Date: 2 May 2012
Form DP-2 Response To ConcernForm DP-2 Response To Concern
Form DP-2 Response to Concern.pdf
Date Updated: 2 May 2012
Category: Judiciary Process
Date: 2 May 2012
Form DP-3 Report Of InvestigationForm DP-3 Report Of Investigation
Form DP-3 Report of Investigation.pdf
Date Updated: 2 May 2012
Category: Judiciary Process
Date: 2 May 2012
Form DP-4 Statement Of ChargesForm DP-4 Statement Of Charges
Form DP-4 Statement of Charges.pdf
Date Updated: 2 May 2012
Category: Judiciary Process
Date: 2 May 2012
Form DP-5 Procedural SummaryForm DP-5 Procedural Summary
Form DP-5 Procedural Summary.pdf
Date Updated: 2 May 2012
Category: Judiciary Process
Date: 2 May 2012
Form DP-6 Determination And ResolutionForm DP-6 Determination And Resolution
Form DP-6 Determination and Resolution.pdf
Date Updated: 2 May 2012
Category: Judiciary Process
Date: 2 May 2012
Form DP-7 Notice Of AppealForm DP-7 Notice Of Appeal
Form DP-7 Notice of Appeal.pdf
Date Updated: 2 May 2012
Category: Judiciary Process
Date: 2 May 2012
Form DP-8 Decision Of The Appeals PanelForm DP-8 Decision Of The Appeals Panel
Form DP-8 Decision of the Appeals Panel.pdf
Date Updated: 2 May 2012
Category: Judiciary Process
Date: 2 May 2012
Form DP-9 Process TrackingForm DP-9 Process Tracking
Form DP-9 Process Tracking.pdf
Date Updated: 2 May 2012
Category: Judiciary Process
Date: 2 May 2012
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Home Inside MCC Who We Are History of MCC Human Rights Protocol
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ARCHIVED: Board of Administration
Video Archive
Moderator’s Corner
Our Churches
Press Releases
Press Kit
How We Work Boards & Teams
Finances
Governance Judiciary Process
Board of Pensions
Governing Board
Council of Elders
Events Resources Emerging Churches in MCC
Diversity & Inclusion Inclusivity Film Series
Worship Resources
Racial Reconciliation
Transgender TRANSformative Church Ministry Program
Trans* Day Of Remembrance
Transgender Youth
Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Children and Youth
Stop Trans Pathologization
Creating a Life that Matters
Church Summits Church Summit Resources
L.E.A.D. Program Plan
Local Church Resources
Church Treasurer’s Manual
Theological Resources
Annual Reporting
Ministries Leadership Development
Global Justice Ministry Center GJ Vision and Mission
MCC Theologies Team Teologías Descriptivas
About the Theologies Team
Meet the Theologies Team
Theologies Guiding Principles
Statement of Purpose
Descriptive Theologies
Team Resources
PAD Conference 2014 Atlanta
Progressive Christian Reflections
Transgender Ministries
Would Jesus Discriminate?
Youth Ministries
Give to MCC Moderator’s Circle Testimonials
Moderator’s Circle Sign Up
Be A Gem
Planned Giving
Disaster Relief
How to Give to MCC
MCC Travel Partners
Judy Dale Scholarship Fund
Connect Now! Job Listings
Staff Directory
Subscribe to Newsletter
Networks
Judiciary Process
The Bylaws of
THE UNIVERSAL FELLOWSHIP OF METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCHES
Addendum 4 (Effective 1st of January 2012)
“Metropolitan Community Churches is a beloved community of justice, compassion, and reconciliation. We also seek to be a community of accountability and restoration. We call ourselves to the highest level of professional ethics, especially among our ministry leaders. We strive to hold each other in graceful accountability to authentic, integrated, and embodied ministry with one another and with and among God’s people.”
To read complete Addendum 4 of the MCC Bylaws, click on the document link below.

UFMCC Bylaws as of 24 January 2012_Addendum 4 Judiciary ProcessUFMCC Bylaws as of 24 January 2012_Addendum 4 Judiciary Process
UFMCC Bylaws as of 24 January 2012_Addendum 4 Judiciary Process.docx
Date Updated: 9 April 2012
Category: MCC Bylaws
Date: 9 April 2012

_
See below for complete forms and documents regarding MCC’s Judiciary Process as outlined in Addendum 4 of the MCC Bylaws.
Form DP-1 Report Of ConcernForm DP-1 Report Of Concern
Form DP-1 Report of Concern.doc
Date Updated: 2 May 2012
Category: Judiciary Process
Date: 2 May 2012
Form DP-2 Response To ConcernForm DP-2 Response To Concern
Form DP-2 Response to Concern.pdf
Date Updated: 2 May 2012
Category: Judiciary Process
Date: 2 May 2012
Form DP-3 Report Of InvestigationForm DP-3 Report Of Investigation
Form DP-3 Report of Investigation.pdf
Date Updated: 2 May 2012
Category: Judiciary Process
Date: 2 May 2012
Form DP-4 Statement Of ChargesForm DP-4 Statement Of Charges
Form DP-4 Statement of Charges.pdf
Date Updated: 2 May 2012
Category: Judiciary Process
Date: 2 May 2012
Form DP-5 Procedural SummaryForm DP-5 Procedural Summary
Form DP-5 Procedural Summary.pdf
Date Updated: 2 May 2012
Category: Judiciary Process
Date: 2 May 2012
Form DP-6 Determination And ResolutionForm DP-6 Determination And Resolution
Form DP-6 Determination and Resolution.pdf
Date Updated: 2 May 2012
Category: Judiciary Process
Date: 2 May 2012
Form DP-7 Notice Of AppealForm DP-7 Notice Of Appeal
Form DP-7 Notice of Appeal.pdf
Date Updated: 2 May 2012
Category: Judiciary Process
Date: 2 May 2012
Form DP-8 Decision Of The Appeals PanelForm DP-8 Decision Of The Appeals Panel
Form DP-8 Decision of the Appeals Panel.pdf
Date Updated: 2 May 2012
Category: Judiciary Process
Date: 2 May 2012
Form DP-9 Process TrackingForm DP-9 Process Tracking
Form DP-9 Process Tracking.pdf
Date Updated: 2 May 2012
Category: Judiciary Process
Date: 2 May 2012
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Content and Maintenance by MCC Online Ministries  |  Site design by Donald B. Harris




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