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Join us as we honor Transgender Awareness Week and Transgender Day of Remembrance.

400 Years of Inequality and Resistance, 1619-2019
Sunday, October 27, 2019

We marked 400 years since Africans were captured, kidnapped and sold into slavery in Jamestown, Virginia by honoring our ancestors who resisted.

"Resistance is an act of faith and it is the only way we will change the world," our senior minister, The Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis said.

November 5 is Election Day. Be prepared. What's your voting plan?

Join us for powerful worship celebrations as we mark 400 Years of Inequality & Resistance.

Sunday, August 25
Slavery in North America: 400 Years (Part I)

On Sunday, September 22, our Queer Black Men at Middle Church led every part of worship: an opening dance, prayers, preaching, the music, the message for all ages and our invitation to join the movement. Watch this stunning worship celebrating the divinity of queer black men's bodies, souls and spirits.

Watch the full playlist from this worship celebration on YouTube.
 

Join us for powerful worship celebrations, community organizing and adult education as we celebrate our Hispanic Heritage.

Friday, September 20

Read the USA Today op-ed A Heart-Stopping School Shooting Ad: No Child Should Have to Text Last Words to Mom by The Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis and Rabbi Sharon Brous on the new Sandy Hook PSA.

Every year, Middle Church is blessed to work with interns currently pursuing their ministry degrees at seminaries in New York City and elsewhere. Please meet our new interns for the year, Monique J. Fortuné (Union Seminary) and Vanessa Lindley (Union Seminary). Learn more about them below:

Come Home to Love at Middle Church on Sunday, September 15!  Two worship celebrations return at 9:30 am and 11:45 am. Both the Jerriese Johnson Gospel Choir and the Middle Church Choir perform, with The Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis preaching.

After a weekend that saw an unbearable number of mass shootings and deaths in El Paso, Dayton, Brooklyn and California, on Sunday, August 4, Middle Church gathered for worship. We collectively lamented the white supremacy that funds the NRA and allows white men in this country to continuously commit acts of terrorism.