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08-17-2008, 04:15 AM
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I attend Pilgrimage United Church of Christ in NE Cobb County (off Sandy Plains Rd). It has inclusive of gay and lesbian folks since the mid-90's. A congregation of about 250 and growing. I highly recommend it. 1st Christian in Marietta is said to be gay-friendly.
08-17-2008, 09:31 AM
Location: Santa Barbara 93108 / Atlanta 30306
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I attend Pilgrimage United Church of Christ in NE Cobb County (off Sandy Plains Rd). It has inclusive of gay and lesbian folks since the mid-90's. A congregation of about 250 and growing. I highly advise it.
Good suggestion. My neighbors used to attend this wonderful,accepting & spiritual venue for many years before they moved to Florida.
08-17-2008, 02:49 PM
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
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Atlanta queer-friendly Black church is source of solace for LGBTQ youths: 'I glance over and see my people'
“I was at my lowest point, like, I was absolutely suicidal when I walked into” Vision, she said. “The internalized negativity had just taken over. I didn’t wish to be alive anymore. I didn’t know a way out, because I hated myself, because that’s what I was taught, to hate a person who was gay.”
The South Georgia native described her upbringing in a “very Christian” Black evangelical house, where family members favor her mother, her uncle and a grandfather often stepped up to the pulpit as pastors.
“My mother was in labor with me on a pew at church. She had to leave church to go have me,” she said, adding that from the ages of 18 to 24, she ventured outside her family’s church to attend six to eight other churches.
At each church, McKinney became skilled at code-switching. She swapped her slacks for skirts and left no questions open when it came to her sexuality. But at Vision, McKinney said, she no longer feels compelled to pretzel herself into a category to gain favor.
“I can actually be myself,” she said. “I can go to church and sit next to my wife and no one
OUR VISIONARY LEADERSHIP
Bishop Oliver Clyde Allen, III, is a religious trailblazer, writer, human rights advocate, an international and community leader and entrepreneur. Bishop O.C. Allen is the Senior Pastor and Founder of The Vision Cathedral of Atlanta known as “The Vision Church”. The Vision Church has 3 campuses, The Vision Church of Atlanta, Vision Church of Raleigh, Vision Church of Los Angeles and Vision Church of Nashville. He is the founder and Presiding Bishop of the United Steady Pentecostal Fellowship of Churches (UPPC), a progressive Christian and inclusive religious nonprofit which oversees senior pastors, ministers, churches and faith-based organizations throughout the Combined States and abroad. He also is a Commissioner on the Atlanta Human Rights Commission.
In 2015, Bishop Allen was appointed by President Barak Obama to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA). In 2016, he was appointed the Southeastern Chair of the DNC-LGBT Advisory Board and a co-chair of the DNC LGBTQ Policy Group. He has served as the National Representative and consultant for the NAACP – Black Church/HIV Initiative. Bishop