WE DON'T ALL
RESEMBLE EACH OTHER.
Good. We weren't supposed to.
Different stories, different experiences, different ways of understanding faith. What we share is something simpler: we are God's people, made in God's image.
WE ARE HERE.
Different stories, lives, and questions.
Still God's people.
We're building a new spiritual community in Birmingham. Come share a table, bring your questions, and let's see what we do with it.
COME SEE USWE DON'T ALL
BRING YOUR
QUESTIONS.
Faith has never required us to stop thinking.
Scripture has a history. Tradition has a history. So do we. We can take faith seriously without pretending every question has already been answered.
MEET US
AT THE TABLE.
It's where people have always gathered around what matters.
For meals. For stories. For remembrance. For Communion. Come as you are.
MEET REV. MARGE RAGONA
Ordained in 1976, Rev. Marge Ragona has spent five decades building communities where LGBTQ+ people could worship openly and fully. She founded MCC Mobile, co-founded the Mobile AIDS Buddy Program, and later served Covenant MCC and Bethel MCC here in Birmingham.
Her ministry has moved through protest, AIDS care, feminist advocacy, marriage equality, and the continuing work of asking what faith requires of us now.
She may have retired once. Apparently, Birmingham had other plans.
- 1976
- ORDAINED IN MCC
Marge begins a ministry that would span five decades of faith, activism, and LGBTQ+ inclusion. - 1994
- BIRMINGHAM
Marge becomes pastor of Covenant MCC in Birmingham. During those years, her ministry included helping organize the 1999 memorial for Billy Jack Gaither. - 2015
- MARRIAGE EQUALITY
Still showing up. Marge officiates a wedding in Birmingham as marriage equality reaches Alabama.
NEW COMMUNITY.
DEEP ROOTS.
New MCC Spiritual Community in Birmingham is new. The work that brought us here isn't.
Birmingham has a long story of people choosing to show up for one another, especially when showing up wasn't easy.
We're here because this city matters — and so do the people in it.
SUNDAY EVENINGS
Refreshments · 6:45 PM
Worship · 7:15 PM
St. John's Chapel
at First United Methodist Church
Birmingham, AL 35203GET DIRECTIONS
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