At MCC, we are tearing down walls and building up hope in some places where no other religious or charitable organizations are willing to go.  In fact, in some places, we are tearing down the walls that religious organizations have created.

Reverend Elder Troy Perry, our Founding Moderator, created the ministry and movement we call MCC when he invited twelve gay men to worship in his home in 1968 and reassured them that God loved them.  Like the first twelve disciples, MCCers are hitting the streets in 24 countries, stopping outside the gate to minister to the oppressed, doing justice and telling the Good News of Jesus to those who feel that there is no Good News.

Religious oppression is increasing...

Exclusion is the name of the game with the far right religious groups...

Liberation theology has great appeal in a world that feels less safe than it did ten years ago...

We live in an unfinished world and we have an unfinished calling.  Until all people are free to worship without rejection and free to commit to love whom they will, our work is not done.

Welcome to MCC.

MCC Statements of Vision, Purpose, and Direction

MCC Statement of Vision

Metropolitan Community Churches are on a bold mission to transform hearts, lives, and history.  We are a movement that faithfully proclaims God’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 life’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.

MCC Statement of Purpose

As God’s liberated people, we boldly . .

Reclaim our Holy Identity

At MCC,we believe that even in our humanness, we are holy.  We are liberated from other people’s definitions of who we are.  We are made both body and spirit. We believe that our sexuality is a holy gift from God so we no longer distance our bodies from our experience with God.  We are a people who proudly participate in the communion of body and spirit.

Advance our call to Social Justice and Action

At MCC, we believe that Jesus led the way in acts of compassion and acts of justice.  Because we have been a people in the margins of society, we understand fully the grace that God has extended to us.  We seek to distance ourselves from exclusion and draw ourselves closer to including all those who are marginalized in any way.   We stand boldly with those who resist the structures of exclusion, as Jesus did, and work to insure freedom for all people.  In the margins, we are blessed. 

Tell the story of God’s Transforming Grace

At MCC, we come as we are to Christ and are changed by what we find.  We experience a God with open arms, inviting all to take the sacred journey of faith and transformation.  We are growing in our faith and claim that our place in society has magnified our place in God’s family.  We are one of the many voices of God that, until now, has been lost in the margins! 

Nurture the value of Community

At MCC, we believe our ultimate ministry is in the world.  We know that in order to prepare ourselves for radical service that changes lives, we must equip ourselves and others in the safety of a supportive community.  We strive to live out a message that rejects the idea that any are excluded from the family of God.

Build bridges that Liberate and Unite

At MCC, we have experienced the soul destruction that comes from hate filled rhetoric.  In restoring our souls, we have come to find that our voices will speak the liberation that comes through peace, compassion, love, respect and grace.  As followers of Jesus, we believe ineveryone’s holy privilege to work out their own salvation.    While we are a Christian church who follows Jesus, we respect those of other faith traditions and work together with them to free all those who are oppressed by hate, disregard and violence.

MCC Statement of Direction

MCC has staked its claim.  As one of the world’s emerging churches, we are proclaiming a spirituality that is liberating and sufficiently profound to address the issues of our chaotic and complicated world. We live out our belief that in the margins we are blessed and we are offering multiple ways for people to access our message of liberation and inclusion.  Through church planting, church revitalization, alliances, the internet, and our work in acts of compassion and justice, we will expand our reach substantially over the next few years.  MCC will become a name known to an increasing number of people as a place where all  are welcomed and our service to those who are excluded is a primary focus of our ministry .  We will be leaders in the world about the union of spirituality and sexuality by articulating our message and spreading it effectively.