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According to the Coalition, more than 1,800 UCC congregations with 370,000 members (about 35 percent of all UCC churches) are officially designated as Open and Affirming as of December 2022. Twenty-one of the UCC's 38 regional conferences, most new church starts, all seven seminaries affiliated with the UCC and several UCC-related campus ...
Altadena Community Church was a United Church of Christ church in Altadena, California, built by the architect Harry L. Pierce in 1947 in a Spanish Colonial Revival style. [1] The church was a progressive Christian and open and affirming church and was the thirteenth church in the United Church of Christ that openly accepted LGBTQ people. [2]
The UCC's Open and Affirming movement, funded by the Open and Affirming Coalition, [47] is the largest LGBTQ-welcoming church program in the world with more than 1,100 congregations and 275,000 members. [48]
Umstead Park UCC was the first UCC church in the Eastern NC Association of the UCC Southern Conference to be established as an Open and Affirming (ONA) congregation. Other existing UCC congregations had adopted ONA covenants prior to this, but because a new congregation must be accepted by the local association, there was reluctance on the part ...
The United Church of Christ Coalition for GLBT Concerns lists Chicago Theological Seminary as an officially "Open and Affirming" institution that is especially welcoming to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersex concerns.
The United Church of Christ Coalition for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns Archived 8 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine is one of the officially recognized "Historically Underrepresented Groups" in the United Church of Christ, and as such has a dedicated seat on the United Church of Christ Executive Council and a number of other ...
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Living Theological Heritage of the United Church of Christ, Volume Six: Growing Toward Unity, Elsabeth Slaughter Hilke, ed., Barbara Brown Zikmund, series ed., Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2001, pp. 615–658. Yearbooks of the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches and the United Church of Christ.