Monthly archive for June, 2006

A Place to Rest

This story was told in November 2004 at Wallingford United Methodist Church at a service celebrating the 20th anniversary of the church becoming a Reconciling Congregation.
Hi! For those of you who don’t know me very well, or know my history with Wallingford, I was figuring this out in order to speak here and I realized […]

Surprises

This story was told in November 2004 at Wallingford United Methodist Church at a service celebrating the 20th anniversary of the church becoming a Reconciling Congregation.
The first surprise was our conception of what it meant to have a church that would welcome other gay people to Wallingford. Perhaps a notion of gay people was that single gay […]

Becoming a Reconciling Church

This story was told in November 2004 at Wallingford United Methodist Church at a service celebrating the 20th anniversary of the church becoming a Reconciling Congregation.
I want to tell you that back 20 years ago we didn’t have the governing body of this church that we have now. It was called an administrative board, and they were […]