Rainbow Alliance OMG Yes!!!

Sunday May 18 at 11:00AM. A worship service and fellowship that will celebrate, affirm and uplift the trans, non-binary, and gender diverse communities. Dane Ray (Oluwadamilare), an ordained AME pastor and well known licensed  healthcare provider to the trans and gender expansive folks, will share a sermon that centers God's universal love.  

Saturday May 31 at 11:00AM. The DC community expresses its religious faiths in a

myriad of ways, each sacred and revered

with years of tradition.Please register here for this online interfaith prayer service. 

Tuesday June 03 at 7:00PM. Join us at All Souls Church Unitarian (16th & Harvard St NW DC) for the 42nd anniversary of our local LGBTQ+ community celebration of religious pluralism and interfaith collaboration. Founded during the era of the  Names Project AIDS memorial quilts, we continue to connect and weave many LGBTQ+ faith communities.

Sunday June 08 at 11:00AM. We have invited Rev. Danielle Dufoe to our pulpit once again to share God's good news! Rev. Dufoe is the first BlackTrans woman in our country to graduate from a Divinity School (Howard University School of Divinity) and a Seminary (Columbia Theological Seminary), and to be ordained by a major denomination.Danielle has a powerful testimony to share. 

When AIDS was still considered a "gay disease," Rev. Carla Gorrell started Food & Friends which made and delivered nutritious meals to those living with HIV/AIDS at home in Washington and beyond.  We housed the ministry for its first 10 years and became known as an inclusive church for the LGBTQIA community.

SaVanna Wanzer became a member and ordained Deacon and we hosted the first Transpride event in Washington DC. We continue to host inclusive annual events in support of the trans community.

From the first 1978 Presbyterian vote against ordaining open LGBTQIA people, WPC fought for a change in policy.  We practiced ecclesial disobedience, ordaining out elders and deacons. Finally in 2011, the policy was changed.  Victory for an inclusive church.

WPC held the first Holy Union in the 80s.  In 2014, the General Assembly finally passed a measure that permits ministers  and sessions (local church government), “to use their own discernment to  conduct same-sex marriage ceremonies where allowed by law.” 

Reverend Harry B. Stock, Westminster Parish Partner, calls them ‘clobber passages;’ those snippets of scriptures from the Bible that condemn homosexuality and the LGBTQIA community, calling it evil and an abomination. His "Scrolls Revealed" seminar shows how these passages have been mistranslated and taken out of historical context.

Westminster is blessed with some of the most wonderful people in the world.  About 20% of the congregation self-identifies as LGBTQIA+--some of our longest term couples, parents raising children, strong singles--young and old.  Each person has helped us better know the love and justice of God.