Announcing the Affirming Christian Network

At today's Capital Pride Festival, Pastor Brenda and I rolled out a new ministry effort we are developing under the sponsorship of our home church, Believers Covenant Fellowship.


Titled the Affirming Christian Network, we are seeking to gather teachings, sermons, special music, and other types of ministry from GLBT affirming churches and other sources. We want to have a wide range of different voices to speak to the GLBT faith community and others who have been pushed away by "the church."


We are not seeking to be an organization ourselves. Instead, we hope to be more of a clearing house for other affirming ministries, pooling resources together to become an effective and helpful Christian resource for the GLBT community. We will be providing information and, for those seeking a home church, we are working on developing the most comprehensive list available of accepting and affirming churches.


So far we have three other churches who have signed on as affiliates, meaning they will be contributing matierial to the site. If your church would be interested in doing so, please contact us at affirmingchristiannetwork@gmail.com.


Here's the kind of information we will be providing:


About Us – Who we are and what we are doing.
Affirming Ministries – Ministries and individuals who are GLBT supportive but are not contributing content to ACN.
Praise & Worship – Audio and video of affiliate worship services and special music.
Teachings – Sermons, workshops and seminars on a wide range of topics.
Insightful discussion – Group, panel, radio discussions on relevant topics of interest.
Interviews – Ministers and leaders in the Christian GLBT community share their views on topics of interest.
Affiliates – Ministries and individuals that contribute content to ACN.
Links – Other GLBT affirming organizations not necessarily of a religious nature.
Resources – Books, Music, Manuscripts, Lists, etc. available for use.


There's not much material up yet, but there will be. You can take an early peek now and I hope you will check it out regularly in the future. Again, that's www.affirmingchristiannetwork.org


I'll be contributing some essays to the site myself and occassionally will link there here.