East Liberty Presbyterian Church

Understanding and Speaking Up for LGBTQ Christians: A Learning & Discussion Series
2016-11-13 12:30 - 15:30 (America/Halifax) | ELPC – Social Hall, 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
All ELPC Friends and Members who want to learn how to better support LGBTQ Christians are invited to this three-part learning and discussion series. These sessions are designed to be an educational and development series (not debates) that provides an environment where authoritative presenters will share information, where attendees will be able to have their questions answered, and where participants will gain competencies related to being an advocate for LGBTQ Christians and issues.
This church-wide series will be on three consecutive Sundays with different stand-alone content each week. A simple lunch will be served. Childcare can be provided with an RSVP at least one week prior to the session you plan to attend. Please RSVP to Wil Forrest at wil@coh.net or at 412.260.2554.
Sun., Oct. 30: Understanding Language and LGBTQ Basics
Led by the Rev. Dr. Randy Bush and Betty Hill, executive director of Persad
Co-sponsored by the Mission Board
Sample Question: “What does the Q mean?”
Sun., Nov. 6: The Bible and LGBTQ Inclusion
Led by the Rev. Heather Schoenewolf and the Rev. Patrice Fowler-Searcy
Co-sponsored by Christian Education Committee
Sample Question: “How do I reply to a family member who asks what the Bible says about homosexuality?”
Sun., Nov. 13: History, Polity, Theology, Oh My!
Led by the Rev. Dr. Randy Bush, the Rev. Mary Lynn Callahan, and Elder Carol Chonoska
Co-sponsored by Spiritual Life Committee
Sample Question: “How can ELPC be fully inclusive of LGBTQ people and some other Presbyterian churches are not?”

Justice Committee Meeting
2016-11-27 12:15 - 12:30 | ELPC – Room 224, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh
The ELPC Justice Committee will meet following Sanctuary worship to continue planning ELPC’s response to those who are incarcerated and their families. All are welcome to attend.
For more information, please contact Carol Chonoska at 724.2729722 or by email.

LGBTQ Ministry Night Out
2016-12-10 19:30 - 23:00 | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
Join your friends for the annual RCC Holiday Concert and a Night Out afterward.
See Wil should you plan to attend and want a ticket and/or details.

First Friday @ Anti-Violence Vigil
2017-01-06 19:00 - 22:00
Part worship, part mission, all TRAIL – we will help host the Gay Christian Network conference’s Vigil against violence directed at LGBTQ people. Come to help the event happen with other TRAIL folks and help promote this important cause as over a thousand conference participants come to Pittsburgh this weekend. All who help at the Vigil get free admission to the Everyday Sunday and Bobby Jo Valentine concert that evening at 8:30pm!
See http://www.gaychristian.net/ for more detail.
This is a TRAIL young adult event.
Friday, January 6 at 7:00pm at Pittsburgh Convention Center

LGBTQ Ministry Spiritual Gathering
2017-01-15 12:15 - 14:15 | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
All are welcome at this monthly spiritual gathering of LGBTQ Christians and their allies. Contact Wil Forrest if you wish to attend.

East Liberty and Justice for ALL
2017-01-20 17:30 - 21:00 | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
A Celebration of Diversity on the Eve of the Women’s March on Washington
Let’s make things together. Eat together. Sing together. March together. Learn how to support each other and empower those who have been marginalized – especially during the recent Presidential campaign – people of color, immigrants, women, the LGBT community, Muslims, people with disabilities and survivors of sexual assault.
Donations will be accepted to support the work of our artists and our social justice partners, The ACLU and Thomas Merton Center.
5:30 to 7:00 pm Social Justice Art-Making, Education and Organizing
Make a poster for the Solidarity March (at 7 pm). We will hand these off to folks going to the Million Women March the next day. Paint a mural. Write letters. Learn how to contact and talk to your members of Congress. Eat tacos (from Blue Sparrow food truck) and desserts from the bake sale (yes, you can contribute to the bake sale too, if you’d like!). We will add participating organizations to this list as they are confirmed.
6:00 to 7:00 pm Poetry Reading by Words Without Walls
Words Without Walls is a creative partnership between the Chatham MFA Creative Writing Program, Allegheny County Jail, State Correctional Institution Pittsburgh, and Sojourner House, a residential drug and alcohol treatment facility for mothers and their children.
7:00 to 7:30 pm Solidarity on the Square March
We will gather on the Whitfield side of the building, across from Ace Hotel, and march through East Liberty, raising our posters, voices and giant puppets in solidarity.
7:30 to 9:00 pm Peace, Love and All That Jazz Performances
“Art is a weapon in the struggle for ideas, the class struggle.” — Amiri Baraka

Anqwenique Wingfield and her band, Kinectic
Kinetic performs songs immersed in the tropical sounds and rhythms of West Africa, blended with contemporary jazz and R&B. ‘World of Wonder’, the debut CD, is available on iTunes, Amazon, and CDBaby.
GizeLxanath and Ben Barson with the Afro-Yaqui Music Collective
Art is Never Neutral in the struggle for a new world. Partners Ben and Gizelxanath combine the rhythms of Africa, Asia, and the Yaqui people to imagine a world beyond mass incarceration and ecocide — a world where life fits.
PARTICIPATING SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS and SUPPORTERS
This list will be regularly updated as confirmations of participation are received.
The ACLU
Bike Pittsburgh
Blue Sparrow Food Truck
Thomas Merton Center
Words Without Walls

LGBTQ Ministry Progressive Meal & Spiritual Gathering
2017-02-11 12:00 - 16:00
All are welcome at this monthly spiritual gathering of LGBTQ Christians and their allies as we share a progressive meal at different member’s homes. Contact Wil Forrest if you wish to participate.

RCC Cabaret: The Power of Pop
2017-03-11 19:30 - 21:30, 2017-03-12 15:00 - 17:00 | ELPC – Social Hall, 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
Renaissance City Choir (RCC) will present their Cabaret, The Power of Pop, featuring music to uplift and encourage the LGBTQA community in a continuing struggle for equality, freedom, and respect. Music will be drawn from the artistry of Lady Gaga, Melissa Etheridge, Paul Simon, the Beatles, Kelly Clarkson, Queen, Matt Alber, Joe Stevens, and more. The performance will be directed by Alexandra Vansuch and choreographed by Kaitlin Mausser, with RCC Music Director Jeffry Blake Johnson.
The Cabaret takes place on Sat., March 11, at 7:30 pm, and on Sun., March 12, at 3 pm.
For tickets, please call 1.800.838.3006 or visit www.RCCpittsburgh.com.

LGBTQ Ministry Spiritual Gathering
2017-03-12 12:15 - 14:15, 2017-04-09 12:15 - 14:15, 2017-05-20 16:00 - 18:00

Post-Pride Meet & Greet
2017-06-15 18:00 - 20:00
Plan on joining us at 5801 (5801 Ellsworth Ave.), where we hope to see some of our new friends we met at PrideFest again.

LGBTQ Spiritual Gathering
2017-07-16 11:00 - 13:00, 2017-08-05 14:00 - 16:00 | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States

LGBTQ Ministry @ Rainbow Connection Picnic
2017-08-27 12:00 - 14:00
All people are welcome to join the ELPC LGBTQ Ministry at our Rainbow Connection Picnic at Randyland.
Contact Wil Forrest at 412.441.3800 x114 for details.

September LGBTQ Ministry Spiritual Gathering
2017-09-10 12:00 - 14:00 | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
All are welcome at this monthly spiritual gathering of LGBTQ Christians and their allies. This month we will focus on allies – how they support us and how we can support them. Aim to invite an ally from your life and/or from the congregation.
We will seek to meet in an air conditioned space that construction will allow – stay tuned where. Contact Wil to attend.

October LGBTQ Ministry Spiritual Gathering
2017-10-07 14:00 - 16:00 | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
All are welcome at this monthly spiritual gathering of LGBTQ Christians and their allies. We will seek to meet in an appropriate space that construction will allow – stay tuned where. Contact Wil to attend.

Circle of Faith
2017-10-15 14:00 - 15:30 | Schenley Plaza, Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, United States
Join our church family and folks from other houses of worship for Pittsburgh’s annual Circle of Faith at the Schenley Plaza tent. The Circle of Faith is a public witness by various faith communities, designed to welcome and include LGBTQIA persons, as well as their families and allies.
ELPC members are invited to gather together for this event and celebrate our own congregation’s diversity after we celebrate Full Inclusion Sunday during worship.
Meet there or contact Wil Forrest at Wil@coh.net or 412.441.3800 x114 to ride in the church van, which will leave ELPC at 1 pm, and return around 4:30 pm.

November LGBTQ Ministry Spiritual Gathering
2017-11-05 12:00 - 14:00 | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States

December LGBTQ Ministry Spiritual Gathering
2017-12-10 12:00 - 14:00
All are welcome at this monthly spiritual gathering of LGBTQ Christians and their allies. We will celebrate the season and be sharing a soup and story potluck….bring a story to share. Contact Wil to learn more and to attend.

January LGBTQ Ministry Spiritual Gathering
2018-01-14 12:30 - 14:30 | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
All are welcome at this monthly spiritual gathering of LGBTQ Christians and their allies. We will share food and conversation at this new years-themed gathering. Contact Wil to learn more and to attend.

February LGBTQ Ministry Spiritual Gathering and Potluck
2018-02-11 17:00 - 19:00 | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
All are welcome at this monthly spiritual gathering of LGBTQ Christians and their allies. We will share dinner and conversation at this event. Please bring some food to share. Contact Wil to learn more and to attend.

RCC Cabaret: Sing it For the World
2018-03-03 19:30 - 21:00, 2018-03-10 19:30 - 21:00, 2018-03-11 15:00 - 16:30
Renaissance City Choir—ELPC’s Artists in Residence and Western Pennsylvania’s only LGBTQA+ choral group—invites you to their 2018 Cabaret, Sing it For the World. The concert will feature music to inspire you to stand up, speak out, and sing out for yourself and others.
For more details, visit RCCPittsburgh.com.

March LGBTQ Ministry Spiritual Gathering
2018-03-11 12:30 - 14:30 | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
All are welcome at this monthly spiritual gathering of LGBTQ Christians and their allies. We will share lunch and fellowship before all are invited to attend the 3pm RCC Cabaret in the church. Contact Wil to learn more and to attend.

WQED/ELPC Watch Party
2018-04-03 19:00 - 20:30 | ELPC – Social Hall, 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
You are welcome to attend our watch party for a screening of We’ll Meet Again: Coming Out in the Social Hall on Tuesday, April 3, 7 pm.
While anyone is welcome, folks from ELPC, Sixth Presbyterian Church and Hot Metal Bridge Faith Community are intentionally invited as we will be sharing a booth as “inclusive Presbyterian churches” this June at PrideFest. To learn more, please contact Wil Forrest (412.260.2554; wil@coh.net).

The program originally aired on Tuesday, February 27, on WQED, and was co-sponsored by ELPC.

April LGBTQ Ministry Spiritual Gathering
2018-04-14 13:00 - 15:00 | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
All are welcome at this monthly spiritual gathering of LGBTQ Christians and their allies. Contact Wil to learn more and to attend.

May LGBTQ Ministry Spiritual Gathering
2018-05-27 12:30 - 14:30 | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
All are welcome at this monthly spiritual gathering of LGBTQ Christians and their allies. Contact Wil to learn more and to attend. NOTE THIS IS A NEW DATE FROM ORIGINAL TIME OF EVENT.
