ZOOM ONLY Worship on May 7 - Marathon Sunday!
Due to limited access into and around the city for the Pittsburgh Marathon, we will have worship only via Zoom on Sunday, May 7th, at 10:30am!
Sanctuary: Art + Honors
"Sanctuary: Art + Honors" is a LGBTQIA+ art show and a celebration of safe spaces that we're planning for this fall, September 2023. It will run for a full week in our building! (Call for artists will start in June if you're interested.)
Additionally, we're kicking off the show by bestowing the Sanctuary Award (yes, we invented it) on another local organization to honor their work in creating safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ individuals in the Pittsburgh area. For our inaugural year, we will be honoring BikePGH! Proceeds from the event will support both Hot Metal and BikePGH.
The plans are underway and the wheels are turning, but we need a few more hands on deck. Could you help us out by joining the steering committee? We meet online monthly, and there will be concrete tasks between meetings that we'll delegate; so you can help out as little or as much as you are able. These are the areas you can get involved in:
Art Show Logistics & Artist Relations
Sponsorships & Fundraising
Promotion & Publicity
Administrative & Behind the Scenes
If you are willing to join the Sanctuary steering committee, either sign up here or let Pastor Erin know. Our next meeting is May 10 at 6 PM.
Spring Nurturing Group: My Body is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church
April 18-June 20
Join us on Tuesdays at 8pm via Zoom (Sunday Worship Link), as we read a chapter a week from Amy Kenny’s My Body is Not a Prayer Request. We’ll ponder together the invitation to listen to voices of disabled people, and to construct a robust theology and practice of justice.
Order the book here (or at your favorite bookstore!): https://bookshop.org/p/books/my-body-is-not-a-prayer-request-disability-justice-in-the-church-amy-kenny/17894168?ean=9781587435454 Let Pastor Erin know if you need financial assistance or for her to order the book for you!
ARTT Reparations Discussion
At our February presbytery meeting we received a second read of the overture from Sixth Presbyterian Church seeking support for the efforts of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church to obtain reparations for the seizure of its building by eminent domain for less than market value. The Anti-Racism Transformation Team of the Pittsburgh Presbytery invites all to a prayerful, wide-ranging conversation on all the word, “Reparations,” holds for us. The particulars of the Bethel AME Church and their Reparations Campaign will help Pittsburgh Presbytery explore the Review, Repentance, Restoration, Reconciliation, Rehabilitation and more that gets packed into "Reparations." Please register here to join us for one of the following dates:
Sunday April 30th, 2023
Zoom
3pm – 5pm
Summer Save-The-Dates
Planning is underway for SO MANY fun opportunities this summer! Stay tuned for more details on all of these, but we want them on your calendar NOW:
PRIDE - We'll be participating with LGBTQ+ Affirming Ministries of Pittsburgh (LAMP) at two Pride Events:
Pittsburgh Pride Revolution March and Festival - June 3 (Downtown and Northside)
People's Pride PGH March and Festival- June 25th (Swissvale)
KID'S BIKE-A-THON - Sunday, July 23rd 5:30pm
VBS FOR ALL AGES - July 24-28, 5-7pm
