Becoming a welcoming or More Light congregation

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Suggestions for workshops and education leading to "More Light" affiliation

More Light on More Light ()
Concise document on how and why to be and become a More Light congregation
What We Wish We Had Known ()
Extensive resource for congregational study, developed by the First Tuesday group at Mt. Kisco Presbyterian Church
Developing More Light Ministry ()
An Overview
Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati ()
A chapter from Urban Churches Vital Signs: Beyond Charity Toward Justice, excerpted with permission of the publisher, William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI (Harold Gordon Porter, Pastor Emeritus)
New Possibilities Workshop ()
A seminar outline with the goal: to move participants to understand how sexism and heterosexism limit possibilities for personal growth and interpersonal relationship for all individuals, regardless of sex or sexual orientation
(Charles S. Collins, Rochester, NY)
More Light: What Difference Does it Make?
by Members of the Presbyterians for Lesbian and Gay Concerns Internet Mailing List
How Churches Engage in More Light Ministry ()
Education, Communication, Ministry
More Light Churches Network

Outline the thought process and conclusion of some congregations

Report to Session from the Ad Hoc Task Force on Church and Homosexuality ()
Downtown United Presbyterian Church, Rochester, NY
A Letter to the Congregation from the Session ()
Third Presbyterian Church, Rochester, NY
The Church and Homosexuality: A Preliminary Study ()
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (PCUS), the former "Southern"church, which merged UPCUSA to become our current PC(USA) in 1983.

Show how sessions, presbyteries, and a synod have expressed their "More Light" support

"Here We Stand -- We Can Do No Other" ()
Sample Statement in Opposition to Amendment B, G-6.0106b (November 15, 1998) for consideration by any body
Presbytery of Genesee Valley Motion ()
The Presbytery (with offices in Rochester, NY) expresses its view of a higher call to openness and inclusiveness and says it will no condone efforts to discriminate unjustly against candidates for ordination.
1997 Rochester Declaration of Reformed faith
This beautiful statement was written in Rochester, NY as Amendment B was passing in the presbyteries. Modeled after the Barmen Declaration, it affirms basic Presbyterian principles and proclaims that the present exclusion of GLBT people is a rejection of Trinitarian and Reformed theology.
A History of the More Light Movement ()
at Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church and in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Two-page brochure including the David Sindt Story and a timeline from 1969 through 1998
(Thanks to Barry Smith, Lincoln Park Church, for this f ile)
Gays / Lesbians and the Church ()
Report about one congregation's results from a questionnaire / focus group to help assess how to make the congreation more welcoming