The Rev. Kate Harford will be preaching at The Village MCC on Sunday 5th November. At that service, we will also be installing our assistant pastor, Rev. Peta Evans. Rev. Kate Harford is a priest of the Metropolitan Community Churches and a chaplain at Oxford Brookes University. She studied archaeology,…
Join us for our Christmas Eve Service as we present our second open mic session. We’ll have a bunch of local people doing solos and duets. YOU are more than welcome to perform yourself. Just get in touch beforehand. After the service there will be drinks and food. You are most…
Finola Brophy is our guest speaker on 29th October. Finola lives in Worthing with her partner of nearly 30 years, Liz, though she spends a lot of time and energy in Brighton committed to improving Brighton and Hove’s LGBT+ voluntary and community sector. She identifies as many things including; lesbian,…
Caroline Lucas is our guest speaker on 22nd October. Caroline is the Co-Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brighton Pavilion since the 2010 general election when she became the Green Party’s first MP. She was re-elected in the…
Daniel is our guest speaker on 15th October. Daniel is the current CEO of Brighton and Hove LGBT Switchboard having taken up the role in April 2017. Prior to this Daniel has a long history of both working and volunteering within the community. Daniel has been a listening volunteer with…
An event to celebrate the launch of Brandan Robertson’s second book, “Our Witness: The Unheard Stories of LGBT+ Christians“. This event will feature readings from Brandan whose story is contained in the book, a presentation about the harm of non-inclusion and the new queer revival spreading throughout Christianity, and a time…
The Village MCC is excited to announce that Rev. Peta Evans has joined us as Associate Pastor. They will give their first sermon at The Village at 6 pm on Sunday 8th October. Rev. Peta is an ordained minister, a non-binary trans-man, and in their secular life, a care-worker and a…
The Village MCC Day Retreat this year will be held at Mary’s work unit in the Hove Enterprise Centre. We begin the day at 10 am and close at 4 pm. Please bring a dish to share. Everyone is welcome and you are free to bring a friend. The theme…
Last night Brandan Robertson spoke to a group of us at the Somerset Day Centre. It was a moving and heartfelt presentation followed by some really interesting Q&A. Brandan spoke of his own journey, how he was outed by TIME magazine when he hadn’t even yet even told his parents…
I am so excited that Brandan Robertson is joining us on June 8th. It turns out that Brandan and I have a number of mutual friends in the USA, and he’d heard about the village MCC whilst working in the Washington DC area where I did some campaigning. I couldn’t believe it…