Pride Worship 2024

by | Sep 3, 2024 | Coming Up

Pride Worship September 15
Our worship for September 15 is MOVING to the ISU Memorial Union, where we’ll join a number of faith communities in a combined Pride Worship Service. Our schedule for that day is as follows:
  • 8:45-9:30     Sunday School for All Ages–ending early so we can get to worship at the MU!
  • 9:15-10:15   Our Church Bus will make repeated trips from the west (Annex) parking lot to the MU.
    • **Riders need to be physically able to board and leave the bus without assistance.
  • 9:30              FIRST group of walkers depart from the NE entrance–to the MU
  • 9:40              SECOND group of walkers depart from the NE entrance–to the MU
  • 10:00            Worship begins AT the MU (We will not gather in our sanctuary that morning.)
  • 11:00ish        Worship ends, cookies are served, and return bus service begins back to Annex lot
Parking is available at the MU ($5 parking fee for up to 2 hours). The Memorial Union utilizes a convenient payment system with pay stations located throughout the building. Visitors may also pay as they are leaving the ramp via the pay station located at the exit. We accept VISA, Mastercard and Discover. **This is your best option if you have any accessibility challenges.**
Worship will include:
  • All ages! A kid-friendly space will be set up in the worship area.
  • Time for you to visit one or more stations that reflect various spiritual traditions, including Holy Communion, Anointing, Lighting of candles, Ritual of release, and more.
  • Music, prayer, and people—precious children of God—who have longed to be welcomed, affirmed, valued, and allowed to serve. (Those people include all of us, BTW.) As we show up together, we claim our solidarity with one another.
If you prefer to worship online that day, we’ll be posting the link on Facebook. You can also view it here: https://www.youtube.com/live/qUcWZ-sg040

Community Pride Worship on Sunday, September 15

This year, Ames Pridefest will be held on Saturday, September 14. In Ames, the
LGBTQIA+ community comes together to celebrate Pride in the fall to allow ISU
students to participate. In celebration with the community, 11 Ames religious
organizations have come together to plan this year’s interfaith Community Pride
Worship service for Sunday, September 15 at 10:00 a.m. The service will be held at the
ISU Memorial Union in the combined Sun Room and South Ballroom and also available
by livestream. Last year’s worship service was an amazing time of community. You can
still watch it here: https://youtube.com/live/YCxHCwIRVDo

Why celebrate Pride? Pride events commemorate the uprising after a NYC gay bar
called the Stonewall Inn was brutally raided by police in 1969. At that time, illegal bars
and nightclubs were the only places it was safe to be openly gay in the US. In our
religious institutions, many people have been made unwelcome even decades later. To
celebrate Pride is to renounce harm and affirm the dignity, equality, and inclusion of all
LGBTQIA+ people.