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About Me

www.achurch4me.org

NOW WORSHIPING WEEKLY 11am Sundays at the Center on Halsted 3656 N Halsted St Chicago IL

Religion has been a challenge for so many of us let's dare to imagine what church could be!
Imagine
...celebrating Godâ€™s unconditional love for everyone
...making a genuine difference in our hurting world
...exploring and discovering deeper spirituality
...fearlessly embracing lifeâ€™s tough questions
...locating a community who will celebrate your life, love and journey
...finding a church 4 me that is remaking what â€œchurchâ€ is all about

Find out more - explore our vision, community, and other resources - Sign up for event bulletins - Share your hopes, dreams, and stories in our forums at
www.achurch4me.org

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Everyone who is excited, challenged, and inspired by this vision:

To build a faith community where all are welcome, grow spiritually and find meaning in the hope and love of Christ; especially those who feel left behind or overlooked in this world.

Together we are creating a place where our paths connect as we journey through life, explore spirituality and celebrate all God is and all God is doing;
- Actively listening and responding to what God is calling us to do and to be;
- Connecting with one another to find authentic ways to experience the divine in the everyday;
- Transcending division and overcoming fear and hopelessness that strain our relationship with God, one another and our selves;
- Collaborating with others as we bring healing and hope into our world, our city and our lives.

Our Values

Hospitality: Offering a safe and open community; welcoming, listening to, learning from and working with others.
Diversity: Living out of love and celebrating the rich variety of all creation.
Creativity: Using artistic expression to bridge differences, offer hope, celebrate the mystery.
Faith in Action: Actively listening and responding to what God is calling us to do and to be to make our lives, our city and the world more just and loving.
Spiritual Growth: Setting aside assumptions and dogma we seek to use our gifts and experiences to heal, celebrate and deepen our relationships with self, world, tradition and Creator.

We are a new church which is part of the movement that is the Metropolitan Community Churches -

"Metropolitan Community Churches are on a bold mission to transform hearts, lives, and history. We are a movement that faithfully proclaims Godâ€™s inclusive love for all people and proudly bears witness to the holy integration of spirituality and sexuality. Just as Jesus did, we are called to:
-Do justice, show kindness, and live humbly with God. (Micah 6:8)
-Explore lifeâ€™s questions with open hearts and minds.
-Raise our voices in sacred defiance against religious (and political or systemic) exclusion.
-Reach out to those with no hope.
-Lift up new generations of remarkable, far-reaching spiritual activists.

As Godâ€™s liberated people, we boldly Reclaim our Holy Identity, Advance our call to Social Justice and Action, Tell the story of Godâ€™s Transforming Grace, Nurture the value of Community and Build bridges that Liberate and Unite"

Heroes:

Rev. Dr. Troy Perry, Mel White, Dorothy Day, Melissa Etheridge, Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr. & Coretta Scott King, Metropolitan Community Church, San Antonio Gender Association (SAGA), Illinois Gender Alliance (IGA), Broadway Youth Center (BYC), Lambda Legal, Howard Brown Health Center, Lesbian Community Cancer Project (LCCP), Horizons a.k.a. The Center on Halsted, Human Rights Campaign

My Blog

achruch4me Good Friday & Easter Services

Peace and Greetings, This is a brief reminder of our Special Good Friday Reflection and our Easter Celebration: Good Friday Reflection, March 21st @ 7pm2nd Floor SAGE space at the Center on Halsted ...
Posted by aChurch4Me.org - Chicago on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:58:00 PST

Rediscovering the Promise and Possibility

Sunday we gathered for our first weekly Worship service as achurch4me - we've called the services in July and August previews as we get to know our new space and as our community gets to know on...
Posted by aChurch4Me.org - Chicago on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:13:00 PST

Inviting Spirit?

I met the publisher of a new magazine, "Queerly Divine" at a recent event. We spoke briefly, I told her about a church 4 me and we exchanged cards. The following day I received an ...
Posted by aChurch4Me.org - Chicago on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:37:00 PST

Letter to the Editor: Counseling Today

A colleague passed along an article from the April issue of Counseling Today earlier this week. The article was titled "Strange bedfellows?" and spoke of how counselors are struggling to...
Posted by aChurch4Me.org - Chicago on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:05:00 PST

Ki Ki So So

KI KI SO SO&As the clouds broke and the sun began to dry the patio from the mornings rain smoke began to rise above the small hearth. The smell of pine needles and incense filled the air and sl...
Posted by aChurch4Me.org - Chicago on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:18:00 PST

Tasting Tomorrow?

Last night our Worship Design Team met for the first time a milestone in the life of our emerging congregation and a taste of the already/not yet nature of where we are on this journey! We ga...
Posted by aChurch4Me.org - Chicago on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:26:00 PST

Seeds of Hope

On Sunday morning I noticed the first few seedlings poking through the mulch and top soil renewing the promise and possibility that the time spent in the garden just a few weeks ago preparing and wor...
Posted by aChurch4Me.org - Chicago on Tue, 29 May 2007 02:47:00 PST

Clocking In

Today Lambda Legal asks that we "Clock in for Equality" by wearing a button, recruiting allies, improving a workplace policy, working to help pass laws, etc. In Matthew 20, Jesus tell...
Posted by aChurch4Me.org - Chicago on Tue, 15 May 2007 10:15:00 PST

Remembering Yesterday

Last Thursday, with a couple who are interested in our emerging community, a church 4 me, I happened upon a brief note on the second to the last page of a community calendar in one of those tiny circ...
Posted by aChurch4Me.org - Chicago on Mon, 14 May 2007 08:25:00 PST

Un-break My Heart!

So yesterday I was out running along the lakefront enjoying the warmth of the sun, admiring the boats and navigating between the bicyclists, roller-bladers and pedestrians... just running hard& ...
Posted by aChurch4Me.org - Chicago on Tue, 01 May 2007 05:20:00 PST