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See Page 2. Homecoming Sunday: September 17th INSIDE: Pastor Travels the Globe for Social Justice • MCCNY’s award-winning choir under the direction of John Fischer returns from summer vacation with an extra-special performance. The Query Newsletter • Religious Education (Bible Study through Queer eyes, etc.) and MCCNY’s myriad other ministries Metropolitan Community Church of New York 2006 begin a new year of programming. FALL Church of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People Open to All • Meet and greet friends old and new at a special social hour with hot buffet in the art gallery after each Worship Service. (It’s one of the best-attended Sundays all year.) Air Conditioning Installed in Church and On Homecoming Sunday (and EVERY Sunday) MCCNY holds 3 Worship Services in the church at 446 Sylvia’s Place Homeless Youth Shelter West 36th Street, NYC (between 9th and 10th Avenues): 9 a.m. Traditional 11 a.m. Celebration 7 p.m. Praise & Worship Incorporating beautiful The most heavily attended Featuring additional music of praise aspects of the Mass liturgy Worship Service (The fastest-growing Service, popular (photo by Samantha Box) (Expect virtually a full house in the among 20- and 30-somethings) Sylvia’s Place Director 250-seat sanctuary on Homecoming) Kate Barnhart Blessing of the Animals/ Feast of St. Francis: Sunday, October 1st In celebration of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, a saint reputed to have a special love for and rapport with all of God’s creatures, congregants at all 3 Worship Services are invited to step forward to the altar with their animal companions (or a picture of them if Homeless LGBTQ Youths at Sylvia’s Place: They once were hot (sweltering!) they are “behaviorally challenged” or otherwise unable to attend physically) to receive but now are cool, thanks to The Anonymous Donor. (photo by Samantha Box) (photo from Gay City News) a Blessing from the Pastor. The Anonymous Donor For New Yorkers, and indeed for people across North America and Europe, the summer of 2006 will be remembered for its heat wave – and with Global Warming underway, that trend is only likely to get Deacon Mel Bryant and “the kanine kids” anticipate worse in summers to come. the Blessing of the Animals on Sunday, Oct. 1st. For congregants of Metropolitan Community Church of New York (MCCNY) and for the homeless LGBTQ youths at the Sylvia’s Place Shelter in the church, 2006 will be remembered as the summer when the dream of AIR CONDITIONING in the building became a reality, thanks to the generosity of September 17th • 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 7 p.m. 7 a.m., 11 a.m., 9 • 17th September The Anonymous Donor. The new air conditioning system throughout the building—covering the previously-sweltering Sylvia’s Homecoming Sunday Homecoming Place homeless LGBTQ youth shelter on the ground floor, the church sanctuary where Worship Services are held on the second floor, and the third floor offices, art gallery and library —cost $80,000 to install. The Anonymous Donor single-handedly contributed $70,000 (Query staff photo) towards that total, and other congregants stepped forward One of the new air to donate the remaining $10,000. conditioning vents spewing cool air into the sanctuary The Anonymous Donor has contributed with amazing generosity over the decades, to the acquisition of the church building itself, and to MCCNY’s social services ministries including the Sylvia Rivera Food Pantry and the Sylvia’s Place Homeless Youth Services. Last Christmas, he gave a $100,000 donation. Sylvia’s Place Director Kate Barnhart tells The Query that The Anonymous Donor established a Youth Emergency Fund of $50,000 for Sylvia’s Place in June. To date, it has paid for bus tickets to New York, NY 10018 NY York, New reunite 6 youths with supportive relatives (photo at right of one of them); shoes for youths who lacked 446 West 36th Street 36th West 446 them; a domestic partnership that allowed a young lesbian couple to get into a family shelter; college Church of New York New of Church textbooks for a young person living with AIDS; a security guard license for one shelter resident and an Metropolitan Community Community Metropolitan SAT registration fee for another; and psychiatric medication to keep a young man out of the hospital until he gets Medicaid coverage. (photo by Samantha Box) Activists Together in Love Since 1976 Pastor Travels the Globe for Social Justice Rev. Earl (David) Ball & Tim Hare, celebrating their 30th anniversary this year, are seen at NYC's LGBT Pride March on June 25th and In her role as the Chair of the Global Justice Team of the worldwide predominantly-LGBT Metropolitan Community Churches at a Margaret Cho show at the State Theater in Pennsylvania on denomination, MCCNY’s Pastor Rev. Pat Bumgardner traveled the globe this summer: to World Pride in the holy city of July 7th. Rev. Earl & Tim are longtime anti-discrimination and pro- Jerusalem during wartime, to the first-ever LGBT Pride celebration in Iceland, and to Malaysia to lay the foundations for opening marriage equality advocates, from New York where they worship the first MCC church in that officially inhospitable-to-LGBTs country. Here are brief excerpts from her keynote address at the at MCCNY, to Pennsylvania where Rev. Earl serves as a Hospital Chaplain. Multifaith Convocation at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem on August 8th: “…If we here can overcome the religious bigotry, hatred, filth offered in the name of faith-bias and condemnation promulgated by the combined religious aristocracies of three faiths here News Briefs: Rev. Dr. Edgard Danielsen-Morales, MCCNY’s full-time Assistant Pastor for Congregational Life, traveled in a city that fully one-half of the world’s population claims for inspiration and guidance – if to a meeting at Casa de Luz ICM [House of Light MCC] in Monterrey, Mexico early this summer to help plan for the development we can overcome here – if the vision of God for peace on earth and goodwill among all can of new ICMs [Spanish for MCCs] in Latin America… Mark Steiger was congratulated upon his even get a hearing here, then maybe there’s some hope tonight…Hope for that vision peeking college graduation at a gathering of about a dozen friends from the MCCNY men’s group… through for our people in Moscow, where churches advocate our public thrashing…some NY State Assemblymember Danny O’Donnell, guest of honor at MCCNY’s Easter Awards hope for a glimpse of goodwill and open-hearted acceptance prevailing in Iran, where girls as Banquet, was cover man on, and interviewed in, A Bear’s Life magazine (at right)… MCCNY young as 9 and boys of 15 can be executed under religious law for sexual nonconformity… Board member Mark Gilrain & his spouse Rob Lennon ran in the Frontrunners NY 25th annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Run in Central Park… At the Gay Games in Chicago, Sheila Marino- “[Let] the proclamation go out from this holy mountain…that Queer people are God’s people Thomas’s volleyball team won a Gold Medal, and Larry Smith performed his personal best in – and that we are who we are NOT by genetic flaw and/or failed human choice, but by the swimming… Choir member Krister Paakkonen & his spouse David Zwiers were married this grace and design of a God who knows us in our mother’s wombs and named us before we summer in Krister’s native Sweden… On August 13th, the congregation sang “Happy Birthday” were ever born – a God who made us in the divine image, and then pronounced that creation to Annie Bostick-Heath, who turned 17… Choir member Eric James continues to shine as a good. There are no exceptions. star athlete on NYC’s LGBT tennis team, the Metropolitan Tennis Group… Sebastian Maguire, 29, of Queens, a leader in the church’s social justice ministry, was quoted twice in recent months in Gay City News – the first time “…Sometimes we hear non-Queer people say…the purpose of sexual relationships…[is to] at the June 17th Anti-Violence Project rally protesting the brutal unprovoked gay-bashing of entertainer Kevin Aviance (which repopulate the earth. But my Bible says – and I apologize for being so blatantly Christian, but hit home especially hard because Kevin attended the LGBT Interfaith Celebration of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday at I think you will agree it IS a tradition in need of reclaiming tonight, and I want to do that for MCCNY last January), and the second time at the big July 7th protest in Sheridan Square after the the sake not only of Queer Christians tonight, but all those who suffer under the weight of its NY Court of Appeals ruling... While MCCNY’s choir was on summer vacation, some of its members misrepresentation – Luke’s 3rd chapter says GOD can raise up children to Abraham and Sarah including Aaron Battle (at right) continued to treat the congregation to stirring solo performances from stones, and when people ask John the Baptist what they must do in the face of that truth, each Sunday... Queens Borough President Helen Marshall’s LGBT Pride Month Celebration at he says essentially: clothe the naked, feed the hungry, and treat one another decently. God Queens Borough Hall on June 28th honored former MCCNY Deacon Russell Murphy, a stalwart all- does not need us to PRODUCE life – God needs us to sustain and restore life… around LGBT activist/volunteer who has held virtually every major position in Heritage of Pride, not to mention high posts in the international coalition of Pride committees, and who “[Religious leaders in Jersusalem], even the Ambassador from the Vatican, band together to donated the rainbow pride flag that flies in front of MCCNY …The August 29th not only condemn us but to advocate violence against us in the name of a God whose only issue of the Advocate newsmagazine contained a report on homeless LGBTQ Scriptural definition is LOVE.