Dear Friends in Faith: as we approach two important dates in our shared ministry of justice and inclusion, we invite all Metropolitan Community Church communities around the world to join in remembrance, reflection, and action.

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➡️ African MCC Network 2nd Annual Conference
🗓️ Schedule: November 28-30 2025, in Pretoria, South Africa.
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➡️ PLH Kinship Group
🗓️ Schedule: Next Schedule: November 29 at 11AM ET
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➡️ Queering the World: Preaching Worskhop Series
🗓️ Next Schedule: November 26 at 1PM PT (Note: 1 CEU is available for each class)
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In case you missed it, read the joint statement of major American religious traditions, including the Metropolitan Community Church denomination, on supporting trans, intersex, and nonbinary people here: www.uua.org/pressroom/pr...

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Our Core Values of inclusion, community, spiritual transformation, and justice are lived out in how we make a place at God’s table for everyone and challenge the oppressions that prevent us from fully living out the fullness that God’s unconditional love offers to us all.

MCC celebrates and affirms the lives and ministry of those who identify as transgender, nonbinary, intersex, gender non-conforming, and gender expansive people; within and beyond MCC.

Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) is an international Christian denomination rooted in and reaching beyond the LGBTQIA+ communities. We are a global movement of spiritually, sexually, and gender diverse people who are fully awake to God’s enduring unconditional love.

Our faiths, our theologies, and our practices of prophetic witness call on us to say with one voice to transgender people among us: ‘You are holy. You are sacred. We love you. We support you, and we will protect you.’”

When people of faith and conscience speak out against that which violates the sacred in its own name, we have the power to stay the hand of sin and suffering,” says the signers of the statement. “Transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people are vulnerable today.

Additionally, the signers highlight the importance of religious leaders speaking out against oppression and in defense of American democratic values. “When people of faith and conscience stay silent in the face of oppression, we are all made less whole.

As such, we raise our voices in solidarity and unequivocally proclaim the holiness of transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people, and the entire spectrum of gender identity and expression,” the statement says.

“Our scriptures vary, but they share a common conviction that we must give voice to those who are silenced and make justice our aim. Our shared values, held across many faiths, teach us that we are all children of God and that we must cultivate a discipline of hope, especially in difficult times.

The statement acknowledges that while the signers come from different religious traditions, they share a common concern in protecting those experiencing persecution.

Let it be known instead that our beloveds are created in the image of God – Holy and whole,” says the statement, which is directed to the American public, political leaders, and moral teachers.

“During a time when our country is placing their lives under increasingly serious threat, there is a disgraceful misconception that people of faith don't affirm the full spectrum of gender.

The statement is signed by 10 religious leaders, and includes additional information from each signer explaining the basis of support from their tradition.

Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) and its moderator, Rev. Elder Cecilia Eggleston are joining heads of diverse religious trade in issuing a landmark statement proclaiming that transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people are worthy of love, support, and protection.