Lighthouse Congregation News Today

The vote by delegates to the United Methodist Church General Conference in Charlotte to overwhelmingly to repeal the church’s longstanding ban on ordaining LGBTQ clergy was met with varying reactions in Western Pennsylvania. The Rev. Dale Reese, who is pastor of United Methodist churches in New Kensington, Verona, Aspinwall and

This is the busy season for Pastor Dylan Parson. Like many Methodist pastors, he leads not just the Hill Top congregation in Pittsburgh’s Allentown neighborhood but a charge of churches including Spencer and Fairhaven. Each building is within about 5 miles of the other on the south side of the

Liberty Hill United Methodist Church is located at 225 Reformation Parkway, Suite 202, in downtown Canton, on the second floor inside The Mill. It is the first church designated as

A ribbon-cutting ceremony is planned for next week as a South Dakota organization begins serving LGBTQ individuals at its new resource space. The Transformation Project, a support network, just opened its Prism Center in Sioux Falls. It is being described as the first and only such location within the state. ...

Unlike more conservative states, New Mexico has seen prominent advances in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in recent decades; a good reason to celebrate todays "National Coming Out Day." First observed in the U.S. in 1988, the founders believed homophobia thrives in an atmosphere of silence and ignorance. In contrast, they thought once people knew loved ones were lesbian or gay, homophobic or oppressive views would be harder to maintain. ...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youths in Nebraska and across the country are exposed to a steady stream of news about anti-LGBTQ policies and legislation, and many say its affecting their wellbeing. Nearly one-third of the 28,000 who responded to the latest Trevor Project survey of LGBTQ young people reported having poor mental health "most or all of the time" because of anti-LGBTQ proposals and actions. Alison DeLizza, a clinical psychologist and assistant pro...

By Sarah Melotte for The Daily Yonder.Broadcast version by Shanteya Hudson for North Carolina News Service Service for the Public News Service/Daily Yonder Collaboration Reverend Katie Black had been serving her United Methodist Church (UMC) congregation for less than a year when a member knocked on her office door and told her the congregation had been praying about withdrawing from the denomination. “I had heard a lot of stories about churches [disaffiliating] in bigger cities and i...

Many small or rural churches that are part of the United Methodist Church will have to decide whether to stay with the denomination because of its stance on LGBTQ issues.

United Methodist Church congregations are working through a complex process prompted by fears over possible doctrine change on homosexuality.

PITTSBURGH -- The Western Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church (WPAUMC) officially designated Clarion First UMC in Clarion as a Lighthouse Congregation. As a Lighthouse Congregation, Clarion First UMC