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LGBTQ individuals can take part in or have a role in all services/activities/meetings:
Yes
There are special services/activities/programs for LGBTQ persons:
Yes
Congregation or denomination will ordain LGBTQ individuals:
Yes
LGBTQ couples can be married in the congregation or by the organization:
Yes
LGBTQ persons can have funeral or burial services in the congregation:
Yes
Congregation or organization fully accepts and embraces transgender individuals:
Yes
Partners or spouses of LGBTQ persons are recognized, included, and acknowledged:
Yes
Services/Programs Offered
Worship Sundays onsite and online at 11am
Outreach to LGBTQ Community
Upstate Pride was started at UUCS
Regularly collaborate with Upstate Pride, leading an Interfaith Service at both Black Pride in Greenville (in June) and at the Upstate Pride March & Festival in Spartanburg (in late October/early November).
Unofficial home base of Proud Mary Theatre Company, the only LGBTQ+ theatre group in SC.
LGBTQ individuals can take part in or have a role in all services/activities/meetings:
Yes
There are special services/activities/programs for LGBTQ persons:
Yes
Congregation or denomination will ordain LGBTQ individuals:
Yes
LGBTQ couples can be married in the congregation or by the organization:
Yes
LGBTQ persons can have funeral or burial services in the congregation:
Yes
Congregation or organization fully accepts and embraces transgender individuals:
Yes
Partners or spouses of LGBTQ persons are recognized, included, and acknowledged:
Yes
Services/Programs Offered
Worship on Sundays at 10:30am
Communion is on the first Sunday of every month
Church nursery is available Sundays at 10:00am
Outreach to LGBTQ Community
Second Presbyterian has a float and parade contingency yearly for the Annual Charleston Pride March. They have a robust attendance with 20 to 30 marchers including allies of the LGBTQ+ Community.
LGBTQ individuals can take part in or have a role in all services/activities/meetings:
Yes
There are special services/activities/programs for LGBTQ persons:
No
Congregation or denomination will ordain LGBTQ individuals:
No
LGBTQ couples can be married in the congregation or by the organization:
No
LGBTQ persons can have funeral or burial services in the congregation:
Yes
Congregation or organization fully accepts and embraces transgender individuals:
Yes
Partners or spouses of LGBTQ persons are recognized, included, and acknowledged:
Yes
A Note from Pastor Richard Reams:
We have a growing LGBTQ community within the church and are currently exploring what services/activities/programs are desired or needed. Much to our dismay and pain, the UMC has chosen not to recognize the gifts and callings of LGBTQ people through ordination. But, we are a congregation that is actively against the current stance and are working to change it. As such, the church is technically not allowed to marry LGBTQ people according to our Denomination’s stance. We wholeheartedly disagree. And though we have not performed or participated in a wedding on campus, it is not out of the question if a family/couple has made this their church and that is their sincere desire.
Services/Programs Offered
Sunday conversation at 9 a.m. & 11 a.m.
Small group conversation at 10 a.m. via Zoom
Facebook Live prayer and devotion every Wednesday at 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Outreach to LGBTQ Community
Participation with other United Methodists in Pride Parade
