Metropolitan Community Church Of New York - New Church Of New York

The Metropolitan Community Church of New York (MCCNY) is an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) Christian church in New York City, located at 446 36th Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenue in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan.

Mission

"We Fill the Sanctuary" Metropolitan Community Church of New York Chorus - From MLK Day LGBTQ Interfaith Celebration , CBST, January 20, 2010 By Jason Michael Webb with Carolyn Eufrasio-Traore, soloist.

While mainly catering to the LGBT population, the church is open to persons of all sexual orientations. MCCNY is affiliated with the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), a worldwide fellowship of churches catering to LGBT persons, and affirming LGBT-supportive theology.

The senior pastor is the Pat Bumgardner, a minister and social justice activist. She lives in the West Village. Edgard Danielsen-Morales serves as the Assistant Pastor for Congregational Life.

A newsletter titled The Query is published by the church.

History

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The church itself was first established in Los Angeles in 1968 by Reverend Troy Perry. This location was moved four years afterward to New York, where it moved into the Lesbian and Gay Services Center, the address that it remained at from 1983 to 1994. The church was moved once again in 1994 to its current location at West 36th Street.

Notable parishioners

Rev. Elder Pat Bumgardner | Metropolitan Community Churches. Source : mccchurch.org

• Sylvia Rivera

See also

The Community Church (UUC) - New York City. Source : www.nycago.org

• LGBT culture in New York City
• LGBT-affirming religious groups
• Metropolitan Community Church of St. Petersburg FL

References

Metropolitan Community Church - Wikipedia. Source : en.wikipedia.org

Further reading

Metropolitan Community Churchh of New York - The Human Right's Church. Source : www.mccny.org

• Eric M. Rodriguez and Suzanne C. Ouellette, "The Metropolitan Community Church of New York: A Gay and Lesbian Community," The Community Psychologist 32, no. 3 ( 1999): 24â€"29
• Rodriguez, E. M. and Ouellette, S. C. (2000), "Gay and Lesbian Christians: Homosexual and Religious Identity Integration in the Members and Participants of a Gay-Positive Church." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 39: 333â€"347.
• Patrick S. Cheng. 2011. Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology. Church Publishing, Inc., March 1, 2011
• Glisson, Susan M. (2006). The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 328. Retrieved February 19, 2012. 

External links

Early Community Centers â€" NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project. Source : www.nyclgbtsites.org

• Official website
• MCCNY Homeless Youth Services