Inclusive Gathering Birmingham

We're a diverse, justice-seeking, LGBTQIA + affirming church for ALL based in Brum's Gay Village (City Centre). We're a community learning to practice God's radically inclusive love & inclusion the best we can. We meet at The Loft (Bromsgrove St) on Sunday afternoons at 3pm. Our large worship gathering happens on the 1st Sunday of each month and will also be livestreamed to Facebook Live. Our other weekly gatherings are lower-key centred around spiritual connection & conversation. We believe that the way of Jesus leads us to the wild, radical idea that true spiritual community can be formed based on who is INCLUDED, not by who is EXCLUDED. We are a learning community, constantly growing and changing to live out this vision in new and expanding ways. When we say "inclusion", we mean much more than mere tolerance or welcome. We believe God wants us all to know that we actually belong. That means people of every race and ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity, age and background, HIV status, ability and disability, theological and political conviction are loved, invited, and fully included. We're based in Birmingham's Gay Village because we want to contribute to the flourishing of the LGBTQIA + community in the city AND because we believe the LGBTQIA + community is an important part of OUR flourishing as a community of faith. Lots of folks travel from around the Midlands to come to IGB, so the Gay Village's easy access to New Street Station, bus and tram routes make it the perfect place for us to meet and to serve and to learn. Despite MEETING in the Gay Village, we are not an LGBTQIA + ONLY church. We believe that the experiences, spirituality and theology of LGBTQ + people are a gift to the church and can point all of us to a more expansive understanding of God's love. This recognition has been a key turning point in many of the spiritual stories of those involved in our church community (for both those who identify as LGBTQ + and those who don't).
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