Faith Organizations

Multi-Faith

Episcopal

Jewish

Lutheran

"Centennial United Methodist Church has a place for you. We believe God welcomes all people. We value diversity and recognize the sacred worth of each person, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental ability, economic means, marital status, education, or faith story. With open hearts and minds, Centennial United Methodist Church is a Reconciling Congregation. Centennial United Methodist Church offers traditional worship services at our Roseville campus and contemporary worship at our Saint Anthony Park campus."

We are community church that mostly draws neighbors from the west side of St. Paul, but we have members from all around the twin cities metro area. We are proud of our history of and ongoing commitment to anti-racism, progressive Christianity, the full affirmation and dignity of LGBTQ+ folks, and environmental justice.

United Church of Christ

Common Ground is a profoundly welcoming and socially active congregation situated near downtown Cambridge Minnesota. If you attend one of our eclectic worship services, expect to experience a variety of music, an atmosphere of care and community, and sometimes even origami during the sermon. As part of our vision that Everyone Counts, we live out the reality that LGBTQ+ people are not only included, but are critical members of the body of Christ.

Our congregation includes people of all age ranges from babies to senior citizens. We have single people, families and an active youth, Sunday School and nursery program. We fly a rainbow flag at our door to tell our LGBTQ+ siblings, their families, friends and allies that they are welcome to join us for events or to become members of our Church. We welcomed people of all sexual orientations. Contact the church website or office for information on where we are in response to CoVid at this time. You can watch our services online at our website, Prairie Church.org., Sundays live at 10:00. A recording of past services is available throughout the week.

Methodist

United Church of Christ

We are progressive Christian community that gathers to listen, speak and act in a spirit of compassion, justice and stewardship. In 1987, we were the first United Church of Christ congregation in Minnesota to fully affirm queer folks. Wherever you are on your journey of life and faith, you are welcome!

We are a congregation that worships, prays, learns, and serves together. Our Welcoming Statement is included every Sunday in our worship bulletin and that statement includes welcoming LGBTQIA+ people. In the past, we have had interns serve our congregation as part of their training to become a pastor. Of the four interns we have had, 3 identified as queer. We are the only congregation in the Southwestern Minnesota Synod that is a Reconciling in Christ congregation.

Quaker

Lutheran

Presbyterian & Baptist

We believe that god’s grace is offered to all, and we will strive to be lavishly generous when it comes to inclusion.

In Christ, God embraces the whole world in love. Without exception, we all belong to God and we all belong to each other. We forget this all the time. Church is the people who practice remembering our shared belonging, and living in love instead of fear.

We are a vibrant community in south Minneapolis that is fully inclusive of LGBTQ persons, working toward racial justice, and involved in many social justice programs in our community.

United Church of Christ

“Faith is a journey, not a destination.” We live that perspective. As an Open & Affirming congregation, we welcome people and families of all sexual orientations and gender identities. We are a warm and supportive community that does its best to reach out to the community and the world, to be God’s people in the way of Jesus Christ. All are welcome to join us in prayer and worship, loving and serving, and working for justice and peace.

Having voted overwhelmingly in support of a welcoming statement in 2019, we affirm LGBTQIA+ individuals and families fully in the life of the church and live into that affirmation by hosting an adult trans support group and engaging in periodic adult education on LGBTQIA+ relevant topics as well as advocating for LGBTQIA+ inclusion in our denomination. We are a service and justice-oriented congregation with worship led at times by a band at at time by an organ. A Wednesday evening community meals ministry is a key secondary touchpoint for our families as an afterschool ministry with elementary students precedes it and Middle School / High School youth group follows.

Lutheran

United Church of Christ

Active social justice/progressive congregation; organizing to become more identified with our own neighborhood; quality music program;

Presbyterian

St. Paul’s is a progressive, Open and Affirming, Creation Justice congregation journeying together to deepen our faith, seek justice for all, and share God’s unconditional love with the world. We are committed to extravagant welcome, engaging worship, dynamic faith formation programming, and robust opportunities to serve the community and world.

In the late 1990s this rural Southern Minnesota congregation took the bold step of hiring an openly gay priest. A few people left but most of the long term members stayed. LGBTQ+ folk in this area are fairly discreet in the general community even to this day. I know of no public group gatherings of LGBTQ+ folk in Martin county. That priest gathered what was at first a separate worshiping community but then they integrated themselves into the Sunday morning congregation. Since then they have been outstanding leaders and recognized for that. Later some transgender folk joined us. We are now very reduced in numbers, being about 15 people on Sunday at 10 am with a hybrid worship including Zoom and in person. We'd be honored to have you join us.

Evangelical Lutheran

Lutheran

Jewish Reform

The Table MPLS is a community that practices the ways of Jesus, making space for all to belong and be loved. We meet Sundays at 5pm, and welcome all people—the super-spiritual and the skeptic—to worship with us. Each week we sing modern worship songs, hear a message, pray the Lord’s Prayer, take gluten-free communion together, and close with our community benediction: “No matter who you are or what you’ve done, who you love or what you’ve lost, where you’ve gone or where you’ve stayed, there will always be a seat for you at the Table because you are a beloved child of God and beloved, you belong.”

We are an open-hearted and open-minded worshiping community with stated and demonstrated commitments to being "Open and Affiirming" and to being a "Just Peace" church. We are also committed to economic and racial justice and to ecojustice, and work to understand the intersectionality of all these issues and how we are called to be part of the healing that is needed in this world. All are welcome, as we affirm that all are children of God - no exceptions.