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- World AIDS Day Event: Service in Las Vegas, Nevada
World AIDS Day Service @ MCCLV Join us Tuesday, December 1st @ 7pm MCCLV will be hosting the World AIDS Day Observance for Southern Nevada this year. Join us for inspiring music and speakers as we hear the call to action and remember those who have gone on before us. Report This Post
- World AIDS Day Reflection: Sunshine Cathedral
Submitted by Rev. Durrell Watkins World AIDS Day December 1 As I look back over the history of AIDS, I am filled with pride to be part of Metropolitan Community Churches. MCC was there from the beginning to hold the hands of people others refused to touch. We offered pastoral care, prayer, hospital visits, and [...]
- World AIDS Day Worship Element: “Where Have all the Ribbons Gone?” – Song Lyrics
Submitted by Rev. Kieren Bourne This song was written a couple of years ago in response to the apparent reduction in wearing and promotion of the red ribbon. Tune: Where have all the flowers gone? Words: Rev Kieren Bourne Where have all the ribbons gone, long time passing? Where have all the ribbons gone, long [...]
- World Aids Day Service of Remembrance and Communion from Neil R Jones
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- World AIDS Day Event: “I Am Accepted” – Chicago, IL
Submitted by Rev. Danny Spears I Am Accepted is both a worship service and educational event sponsored by Chicago Theological Seminary’s LGBTQ Religious Studies Center, the Heyward-Boswell Society, achurch4me? MCC, Holy Covenant MCC, and MCC Illiana. Report This Post
- World AIDS Day Event: Multi-Faith Service, December 1, Brisbane
Submitted by Rev. Leigh Neighbor This year MCC Brisbane wil host the Multi-Faith Service on the 1st December for World AIDS Day. This is the secound year we have held this service. We gather as a people who have experienced the reality of AIDS in our lives, this gathering seeks to strengthens our hope and [...]
- World AIDS Day 2009 – A Letter from Rev. Nancy Wilson, Moderator Metropolitan Community Churches
Dear MCC Friends: As we observe World AIDS Day this year, we are aware that there are many reasons for hope: • Progress is being made for a vaccine • The travel ban to the US, for those with HIV/AIDS is being lifted • In the US, Ryan White funding is being renewed, just barely! [...]
- World AIDS Day 2009 – Dry Bones: In the Valley of AIDS ~ By Rev. Ellen Richardson, M.D.
As a Hospice and Palliative Physician, I continue to have patients come into my care dying of AIDS. In America. Today. They are for the most part young, minorities and immigrants, suffering on the margins of society from poverty and/or addictions, whose lives were already too broken to take notice of the symptoms of progressive [...]
- World AIDS Day 2009 – Reflection on Ministry at the Margins: St. Damien the Leper By Amanda Quantz, Ph.D.
Beginning in the 1850s the Hawaiian government began a segregation policy for people suffering from Hansen’s Disease, commonly known as leprosy. It was believed that this malady had arrived from China, but little was known about its etymology. The devastating effects of this affliction contributed to widespread panic and a desperate need to contain the [...]
- “Living Between Hope and Peace” – World AIDS Day Sermon 2009 from Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson
<< Go To World AIDS Day “Living Between Hope and Peace” A sermon by Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson World AIDS Day, December 1st, comes early in the Christian season of Advent. For many MCC churches, it has come to be an integral part of that “penitential” season of reflection, preparation, tradition, memory, and going deeper [...]
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