On to Columbus!
The Mennonite USA national conference starts tomorrow! I'm the young adult delegate for Central District Conference and I'll be balancing those duties with my involvement in the PinkMenno actions all week. If you haven't yet joined PinkMenno.org, please check it out.
In the last view days, I finally put together this montage of PinkMenno supporters from churches all over the country. We asked individuals to create a simple sign with one of the following messages: "One Voice," "One Church," "One Spirit," "One Love." And then we set it to the song "One Voice" by the Wailin Jenny's. Thanks to animoto.com, it turned out beautifully. Please watch it and add a nice comment to it on youtube if you feel so moved.
If you're the prayin' type, please keep us PinkMenno folk in your thoughts as well as those who we impact this week. (yikes...I sound like an evangelist...) No, but really. We just want to get human conversation started. It's such a hateful issue right now, both ways. I must admit to not feeling prepared to face "the other side." I just try to remind myself that I'm not there to prove anything or to gain anyone's approval (which, as I've discussed before is hard for me since I LOVE approval :) And as Luke M. reminded me tonight, we're there for the LGBTQ youth and adults who maybe are too afraid to come out right now. And we're there for people who have always wanted to talk about it but never found a safe place to do so. Heck, I remember when I came to conventions in youth group (MYF). If I had seen a group of pink "protesters" when walking around with my crew, I CRINGE imagining the comments my friends would have made. And I would have stayed completely silent. This is my chance to speak up. It'll be good for me.
In the last view days, I finally put together this montage of PinkMenno supporters from churches all over the country. We asked individuals to create a simple sign with one of the following messages: "One Voice," "One Church," "One Spirit," "One Love." And then we set it to the song "One Voice" by the Wailin Jenny's. Thanks to animoto.com, it turned out beautifully. Please watch it and add a nice comment to it on youtube if you feel so moved.
If you're the prayin' type, please keep us PinkMenno folk in your thoughts as well as those who we impact this week. (yikes...I sound like an evangelist...) No, but really. We just want to get human conversation started. It's such a hateful issue right now, both ways. I must admit to not feeling prepared to face "the other side." I just try to remind myself that I'm not there to prove anything or to gain anyone's approval (which, as I've discussed before is hard for me since I LOVE approval :) And as Luke M. reminded me tonight, we're there for the LGBTQ youth and adults who maybe are too afraid to come out right now. And we're there for people who have always wanted to talk about it but never found a safe place to do so. Heck, I remember when I came to conventions in youth group (MYF). If I had seen a group of pink "protesters" when walking around with my crew, I CRINGE imagining the comments my friends would have made. And I would have stayed completely silent. This is my chance to speak up. It'll be good for me.
Labels: church, mennonites, pinkmenno
posted by philidendron at 9:11 PM permalink |
4Comments:
I'm sending happy thoughts your way...I wish I could be in Columbus, but Denver is where I have to stay. I really hope that some good conversation can happen. Also, great work on the video, it looks great!
Awesome video! Hoping for many minds to be opened and all voices heard.
Wonderful job on the video! Scott said that the pinkmenno group was really successful this past week in the amount of involvement in people wearing pink. Regardless of the other side that formed ("homosexuality is an abomination"-- really?! Abomination?! What is this, 1850? Good grief), I think it was a great way to speak out and get the issue out on the table and for so many youth and adults to see that there are people/churches/members of MCUSA that won't stay silent. Way to go PinkMennos!
update soon? bitte?
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