Theme: Welcoming
"What matters is we welcome each body into the sanctuary: so that God might come in as well." - Myke Johnson, UU Minister and ecojustice activist.
BUUC (Brookfield Unitarian Universalist Church) is an official Welcoming Congregation of the UUA (Unitarian Universalist Association). This means our congregation engaged in a process of learning about the lives and experience of people who identify as LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) with an aim toward making BUUC a welcoming, affirming and inclusive community. Through this process congregations learn about ways in which churches and other places make LGBTQ feel unwelcome, unwanted, even unsafe. Congregations also learn ways to be more welcoming so that they can help create a place where all people might find a supportive and safe place to practice their faith.
BUUC (Brookfield Unitarian Universalist Church) is an official Welcoming Congregation of the UUA (Unitarian Universalist Association). This means our congregation engaged in a process of learning about the lives and experience of people who identify as LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) with an aim toward making BUUC a welcoming, affirming and inclusive community. Through this process congregations learn about ways in which churches and other places make LGBTQ feel unwelcome, unwanted, even unsafe. Congregations also learn ways to be more welcoming so that they can help create a place where all people might find a supportive and safe place to practice their faith.
What does it feel like to be unwelcome?
What are ways LGBTQ or other people made to feel unwelcome, unwanted or unsafe
At home?
At school?
At work?
In churches?
How do you know when you’re welcome somewhere?
How can you as a Unitarian Universalist be welcoming towards others including people who identify as LGBTQ?
What about the congregation?
