Metropolitan Community Churches

Schedule: 11th March.

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Queering the Word: Baptisms, Weddings, and Funerals

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Baptisms, Weddings, and Funerals are deeply sacred life events. In this workshop, we explore how scripture can inform and enrich our approach to these milestone events.

Note: 1 CEU is available for each class.

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Applications for North American LEAD 15 are nearing the final review period.

If LEAD has been on your heart, we encourage you to apply now.
Limited spots available.

Scholarships are available and cost should never be a barrier.

We will walk together in visibility and solidarity, dismantling barriers and embodying equity so that every woman in MCC—and every woman touched by our witness—knows she/her/they are seen, valued, and cherished. This is our covenant. This is our witness. This is our justice.

We pledge ourselves to repentance where harm has been done, renewal where silence has prevailed, and courage where justice demands action.

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Call to Action:

➡️ Thank a woman that has made a difference in your life
➡️ Pray for a woman who is in leadership
➡️ Pray for a woman who is struggling

🌸 Review and reshape our structures so that equity is not aspirational but embodied in our governance, our ministries, and our communal life.

🌸 Invest in leadership development that empowers women across our global movement.

🌸 Resist erasure by creating rituals, policies, and practices that embody visibility, dignity, and belonging.

🌸 Celebrate women’s contributions across generations and cultures, ensuring their stories are preserved, cherished, and taught.

🌸 Affirm women of every race, culture, ability, age, gender expression, and economic reality, including trans women, queer women, nonbinary, and all who live at the intersections of gender oppression.

🌸 Honor women’s leadership as pastors, prophets, elders, shamans, rabbis, teachers, organizers, healers, and visionaries.

Grounded in our core values of Inclusion, Community, Spiritual Transformation, and Justice, we covenant to:

🌸 Amplify women’s voices in every space of discernment, leadership, and decision-making.

Women’s voices are essential. Their wisdom, creativity, resilience, and prophetic imagination are not optional; they are foundational to the flourishing of our churches and the healing of the world.

We stand against the global realities of gendered oppression—economic injustice, political violence, cultural silencing, and the policing of women’s bodies and identities.

We reject the spiritual violence that occurs when women’s callings are questioned, minimized, dismissed, or silenced. We confront the erasure that happens when women’s stories go untold, their labor unrecognized, their leadership uncelebrated.

With clarity and conviction, we declare: Patriarchy has no place in MCC.

Misogyny will not be tolerated in our pews, pulpits, councils, or communities.

It demands that we build communities where women are not diminished but radiant, not silenced but heard, not overlooked but honored as indispensable to the life and liberation of the Church.

Scripture proclaims: “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28). This truth is not symbolic—it is structural.

International Women’s Month is not merely a celebration; it is a summons to justice, a call to courage, and a charge to dismantle the systems of patriarchy and misogyny that continue to wound the Body of Christ.

Saints,

In this sacred season, we—the Council of Elders of Metropolitan Community Churches—lift our collective voice to honor the dignity, leadership, and holy brilliance of women across our global fellowship.

Justice Statement in Celebration of Women, during International Women’s Month of March | #InternationalWomensMonth #WomensMonth #InternationalWomensDay #WomensDay

Schedule: 10th March to 7th April.

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Each session will provide extensive time for personal reflection, group discussion, and engagement with music, both Reid’s body of original work and the broader tradition of Black American music. No prior musical training is required.

Kwok will draw from her decades of experience teaching spirituality of the contemporary world and healing. Together, they will discuss music, sabbath, simplicity, sleep, sanctuary, silence, solitude, stillness, and slowness.

This vision of God’s rest is core to the liberatory gospel of Jesus Christ. This course will be based on “Notes of Rest,” developed by Reid from his contemplative experience with Scripture and Black music, which invites the weary into the rest of God.

The world we live in, with wars, violence, polarization, and exploitation, tests our faith and challenges our spirit. The course teaches tangible skills to participants so they can cultivate a spirituality of resilience amid the restlessness of our present age.

Episcopal Divinity School: Notes of Rest, Notes For Resistance

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A course with Dr. Kwok Pui Lan and Julian Davis Reid to cultivate a spirituality of resilience living into the liberatory Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Limited spots available. Scholarships are available and cost should never be a barrier.

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➡️ Applications for North American LEAD 15 are nearing the final review period.

If LEAD has been on your heart, we encourage you to apply now.