Inclusive Church

All are welcome in this place

• those who are single, married, divorced, widowed, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, gender-fluid, heterosexual, rich, poor or penniless, physically abled or struggling with mobility.
• people with PhDs and those with learning challenges· those who sing like angels, and those who just growl quietly to themselves.
• those just browsing, just woken up, or have just been released from prison.
• people over 60s, wailing babies and excited toddlers, and their parents, and teenagers growing up too fast, and their parents.
• people having problems, are down in the dumps, angry with God and those who want to celebrate and thank God.
• people who don’t like ‘organised religion’, and even those who do.· those who work too hard, those who don’t work, can’t work, or feel they aren’t very good at stuff.
• introverts, extroverts, people seeking friendship, and those preferring their own company.
• people inked, pierced, or both.
• those who could use a prayer just now, who have screwed up seriously, or who’d like to light a candle but don’t quite know why.
• those who find the whole idea of God a bit odd, who’ve been damaged by religion, who were force-fed religion as children, those who’ve wound up here by mistake, and those who have been led here by the Holy Spirit.
• pilgrims, tourists, migrants, asylum seekers, neighbours, explorers, doubters, and those who prefer to travel rather than to arrive.

You are welcome in this place because God loves you.
(With thanks to St. Paul’s, West Hackney and Revd. Niall Weir)