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Welcome to OdysseyChurch.org
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More about us...and the ruling on Proposition 8 |
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 Here is our latest GuidePost, our Sunday at Six (6:00 pm) newsletter at OdysseyChurchJAX. We report on MCC's response to the ruling on Prop and tell about Odyssey starting Circles of Friends. Click below to read it or download it; it's in JPEG format.
OdysseyChurch is a unique, innovative online, multi-site, multi-service Metropolitan Community Church affiliated with The Center for Progressive Christianity, reaching out to Georgia's Low Country, Florida's First Coast, Palm Coast, East Coast, Space Coast, Treasure Coast, communities along the St. Johns River and the World Wide Web...with the OdysseyHub in Metro Jacksonville.
We reach out to all people—gay, straight, bisexual, transgendered—from all cultures, traditions, ethnic backgrounds. Believers and sceptics are equally welcomed and valued. Your participation and contribution to our journey makes it all for the better! "The Journey Is Better...Together!"
For further information or to contact us, write
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. Our OdysseyHUB phone is 904-647-4065. Our HUB is located at the UU Church, 7405 Arlington Expressway, Jacksonville FL 32211, where we also currently worship. Watch us grow!
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 Welcome to OdysseyChurch, the innovative online and multi-site Metropolitan Community Church forming in Jacksonville. We have a bright future with an outreach to match. But we're still 'in formation' as we gather together our base. "We would like to hear from you," says Lead Pastor Grant Lynn Ford. "And we look forward to meeting you soon!"
 "You are welcome here, whether you're gay, straight, bisexual, transgendered, no matter your faith tradition or background or whether you even consider yourself a person of faith," says Teaching Pastor Jim Merritt. Jim is also pastor of Trinity MCC, Gainesville, one of our ministry partners (along with First Coast MCC, St. Augustine, and Sunshine Cathedral, Fort Lauderdale).
 "Odyssey brings a fresh breeze of joy to northeast Florida," says Pastoral Care Minister Barbara Dubberly. Minister Barbara is a Jacksonville native and long-time participant in its faith community. "It's becoming a home for a variety of people, and a real base for future outreach."
We currently meet Sunday at Six (6:00 pm) in the Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville at 7405 Arlington Expressway. The OdysseyHUB office (open by appointment) can be reached at 904-647-4065 or by writing
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Look for us at a location near you soon and keep up with us on the web.
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More about Odyssey and directions
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Homosexuality: Not a Sin, Not a Sickness |
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What the Bible Does and Does Not Say
By the Reverend Elder Don Eastman
©Copyright 1990 Universal Fellowship Press
- Homosexuality and the Church
- About the Bible
- New Information Refutes Old Ideas.
- What Was the Sin of Sodom?
- What is an Abomination?
- What is Natural?
- Other Verses in the New Testament
- No Law Against Love
- Insights from Other Bible Scholars
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Complete info here
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 The first Metropolitan Community Church was founded by the Reverend Troy D. Perry, a Pentecostal preacher who felt called to create a church where gay people would be welcome. So in October of 1968 he held his first service, and 12 people showed up. That message of hope spread across the globe and across cultural, ethnic and lifestyle lines. It was a simple message: "God loves you, whoever you are!" And many who had experienced alienation from the church heard the message and came home. (Click here to read Troy's bio)
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More about MCC...
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By the Reverend Elder Nancy L. Wilson,
Moderator of MCC
©Copyright 1992 Nancy L. Wilson Reading the Bible with "New Eyes" Most modern gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) people are either afraid of the Bible or unfamiliar with its content, thinking that the the Bible has only bad news for them. While it is true that the Bible was written in the context of patriarchal, heterosexist cultures, the message and story of God's unconditional love in Christ can also be the "power of salvation" for our GLBT community.
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Our Story continues
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