Our congregation has been slowly discerning the United Church of Christ’s Open and Affirming process since 2017. This is a process of helping us to more clearly define what we mean in our guiding statement when we say “We embrace all as we journey the Way of Jesus.” This process began prior to our last pastoral transition and was a central part of our interim time prior to calling our current pastor, Edward Goode, as our settled minister.
As there has been a lot over the last few years about this process, the Open and Affirming Core Team wanted to have a central place to share videos, documents, etc.
Open and Affirming Coalition Resources
- Open and Affirming Coalition Website
- Examples of Open and Affirming Covenants from Other Congregations
- Open and Affirming Discernment Process Toolkit -This is a lengthy document but it is extremely thorough in the process it describes. It is important to view the process as a whole and not just small pieces within.
Local / SONKA Congregations
- First UCC – College Hill – Responses to questions of how they’ve changed as a result of covenanting as an ONA congregation.
- First UCC – College Hill – Covenant Document – the document their congregation approved when they voted to covenant as an Open and Affirming congregation
- Others coming soon