LGBTQ+ Inclusion at Green Street Church
At Green Street, we believe that LGBTQ+ inclusion is one of the core ways in which we live out our mission, particularly our call to INVITE. We celebrate the diversity of the human family and affirm the participation and leadership of LGBTQ+ folks at our church. In collaboration with our partners at Reconciling Ministries Network, we stand in prophetic resistance to the United Methodist Church's current stance on human sexuality.
Bishop Charlene Kammerer speaks at a Reconciling Ministries gathering at Green Street Church after the 2019 General Conference of the Untied Methodist Church.
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Rev. Sarah Howell-Miller making Pride Sunday happen even during the COVID-19 pandemic (October 2020).
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Our Welcome StatementWelcome to Green Street, where the Kingdom of God is breaking through!
We practice the radical welcome of God: Whether you are single, married, divorced, widowed, black, brown, white, or mixed, straight, gay, bi or confused, transgender, cisgender or non-binary, born in the USofA, or undocumented, we welcome you. We love crying infants and wiggly toddlers athletic moms and out of shape dads, immature grey-haired people and children with old souls. We welcome friends of Jesus and church-phobics, religious refugees and agnostic doubters, corporate executives and starving artists, tree-hugging vegans and red-meat eaters. the unemployed and over-employed, Republicans, Democrats, independents and anarchists, the tattooed, pierced, both or neither, people who know it all and those who have hard questions. We don’t care if your family came here on the Mayflower or came across the border, came through Ellis Island, were brought here enslaved, or seek refuge. Everyone is welcome. We believe that Black and Brown lives matter and that white privilege is real. We welcome the least, last, losers and the lost, upper class, middle class, working class, or people with no class at all. If a crowded room gives you an extrovert buzz, or if silence soothes your inner introvert, there's a place for you here. You are welcome if you have sobered up or are still using, in recovery or thinking of rehab. We love sinners and saints, neighbors, strangers and enemies. Your presence enriches us. Thanks for visiting, and welcome home. |
Green Street UMC's Welcome Statement.
An interview with Julie Wood, Green Street member and chair of our Reconciling Ministries team.
A history of Green Street UMC's public marriage statement (2013).
In solidarity with LGBTQ+ people who, under the current policy of the United Methodist Church, are not able to be married by Methodist clergy or in Methodist churches, Green Street Church currently is not permitting any weddings in our building. As the landscape around our denomination's struggle with LGBTQ+ inclusion changes and develops, we are evaluating best ways to express a public witness to the expansive love and radical hospitality we see in the teachings of Jesus Christ.
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