We are filled with JOY after the 2024 Pride in Bellingham Parade & Festival on July 7th!

So much diversity was on display and we are grateful as a faith community that was founded at Bellingham Pride in 2013 to be a part of it (11 years woah)! Thank you to everyone who helped us pass out pocket hearts, stickers, bracelets, buttons and….POPSICLES!
It reached over 80 degrees in downtown and a cool treat was just what many folx needed as they concluded their day at Pride. Sharing in the love sometimes means refreshment AND sugar.

We shared in worship before the parade and are offering some of the words we shared with one another before we shared the love downtown!

Pride Blessing
In this PRIDE season, let us celebrate the grace of the Divine, who liberates us from limitations, the boundless love, mercy, and justice of the Creator, who crafted a kaleidoscope of identities, and the wisdom of the Holy One, who urges us to embrace this magnificent diversity.
May these blessings be with you all. And also with you.

Inclusive Lord’s Prayer
Our Sovereign, Divine Mystery,
unbound by gender, name, or form,
hallowed be your all-encompassing love.
May your will for liberation and wholeness be done,
On this earth and where every being has begun.
Give us courage as we give to others,
to face the challenges that silence our truths.
Forgive us for the times we've hidden our light,
as we forgive those who bring oppression's night.
Lead us not to conformity but fierce authenticity's embrace
and deliver us from the fear of speaking our truth.
For yours is the love, the passion, and glorious diverse design,
now and forever.
Amen.

Sending Blessing:

May the divine spark, ever-shifting and boundless like queer love, ignite within you. May this essence propel you forward, a radiant disruption in a world clinging to binaries. Go forth, a testament to God's love that transcends categories, and be that love for all creation. And we say amen.