Sixth Church: Affirming our Unity – More Light Sunday 2009

Our Sixth Church More Light Sunday is fast approaching and promises to be a great one! All in one jam-packed day of excitement we’ll have our More Light Sunday Worship Service, a team of Sixth Church folks marching in the Pride Parade, and a Sixth Church booth at PrideFest. For you calendars, we have:

Sunday, June 14th --

1. More Light Sunday Worship service at 10:00 AM at Sixth Church (note summer start time!)
2. Pride Awareness parade at Noon from Grant St at 1st Ave to Liberty Ave at 7th St
3. Sixth Church booth at PrideFest from 1:00 until 6:00 PM near the corner of 9th St and Liberty Ave

Our worship service that day will include a celebration with uplifting music, a video/photo slideshow, and a procession of signs proclaiming personal expressions on themes of unity, pride and connectedness.

The parade and booth will feature banners, signs, new Sixth Church More Light t-shirts, refrigerator magnets and ribbons in support of same-sex marriage legislation. We’ll also be showing off one of our two new More Light flags.

The parade starts at from Grant St at 1st Ave, moves onto the Boulevard of the Allies, down to Stanwix St, and turning onto Liberty Avenue finishing at the stage at PrideFest on Liberty Ave at 7th St. BEST PARKING NOTE: First Avenue Parking Garage . Rachel Rothenberg is coordinating the marchers this year. To join us for this part, you can contact Rachel, sign up on the sheet in the Chapel, or shoot Fred an e-mail at fjo@city-net.com .

The booth will be near the corner of 9th St at Liberty avenue and is a chance for us to share with Pittsburgh all of the great things a welcoming More Light Church like Sixth has to offer! The festival runs from 1:00 to 6:00 PM and is free to all. We’ll have t-shirts, a slide show, information about Sixth and the More Light Presbyterians movement, refrigerator magnets, candy, music and more fun than the bumper cars at Kennywood. If you’d like to be part of the booth team for a short shift, please contact Fred. BEST PARKING NOTE: Ninth and Penn Parking garage .

More to come -- stay posted!!