More Bits &
Pieces
Rainbow Hearts & Crosses…
...reaching out to support our brothers and sisters on
their journey for justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and transgendered (LGBT) folks...
Jeaneane
Hill, who is a member of
Soulforce, along
with a team of other volunteers from our church
hand-painted rainbows on two thousand hearts and crosses
with rainbows in support of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church of America (ELCA) and their important upcoming
vote about their own LGBT clergy.
Jeaneane,
who created the pottery hearts and crosses, has
distributed them for many years as her signature
outreach to bring attention to the support of LGBT
folks.
She
personally carried the Rainbow Hearts and Crosses to
Orlando, Florida, in response to a request from
goodsoil.org, the
umbrella of the LGBT community in the Lutheran
Conference.
Goodsoil.org is the official website of the
collaboration to overcome the policy and practice of
discrimination within the ELCA against LGBT clergy,
same-sex marriages, and covenanted relationships.
Last
month, the United Church of Christ Synod officially
voted to support gay marriage.
The church has already ordained LGBT clergy. The ELCA
does not currently endorse LGBT clergy unless they are
celibate.
God IS
still speaking.... Come, Listen, go serve.
For more
information visit:
goodsoil.org or the
United Church of
Christ website.
Blessed Are Our Pets…
On July
27, we held an outdoor service that included a blessing
of the pets that are so important in our lives.
