Just as we celebrate God's all-encompassing love on the last Sunday in January with an RIC Sunday celebration, the annual Pride season is another chance for your congregation to celebrate and renew its commitment to welcoming all. Pride celebrations take place regionally all over the country, usually during the month of June. (You can check with your local LGBT publication, PFLAG chapter, or similar organization for local dates.)

Pride is an excellent chance for congregations to renew, remember, and rejoice in their welcome and celebrate their LGBT friends, family, members, and ministers. So, we encourage you to suggest our new Pride Sunday resources to your worship committee, pastor, or congregational leaders. Paul Gibson, a member of St Paul's in Clearwater, Florida, and retired opera singer and ex-Benedictine monk among other things, authored these materials. The materials include liturgy and prayers as well as suggested readings for the day. They can be used any time in the church year, but we especially recommend you use them during your local Pride celebration as a way to bring focus to the joy of being a part of the LGBT and allied community and to your congregation's continued commitment to radical welcome.