Walk with us at the Charleston Pride Parade

May 15, 2023 Guest User

Second Presbyterian Church Pride Walk

Saturday, June 25, 2022
Meet at the church parking lot by 8:30 a.m.

Saturday, June 3, 2023
Meet at the church at 8:30 a.m. | Walk at 9:00 a.m.

Pride offers a time to come together in joy and celebration as members and allies of the LGBTQ+ community. We believe everyone is whole, worthy, and loved and should be welcomed into belonging just as they are and we're excited to walk for the third time as a group in the Charleston Pride parade! The Church is not always a source of love and care for marginalized people and at Second Presbyterian, we are committed to be active participants in loving all God's people in the way of Jesus.

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Registration is $20, which helps to cover the group event entry and a group T-shirt, can be paid online at www.2ndpc.org/give, via Venmo (@chs2ndpc), submitted in the offering plate, or delivered to the church office. Please include the description PRIDE with your payment.

Pride Committee Chair: Aled Pritchard, aledpritchard@gmail.com

Questions? Find some resources below.

Resources:

The History of Pride

What Is Pride Month and the History of Pride?

The Bible and Same-Sex Marriage - Significant Passages of Scripture to Consider Regarding Marriage

Frequently Asked Questions - Same-Gender Marriage

Source: pride

Walk with us at the Charleston Pride Parade

May 12, 2022 Guest User

Second Presbyterian Church Pride Walk

Saturday, June 25, 2022
Meet at the church parking lot by 8:30 a.m.

Join a group from Second Presbyterian (friends and other churches welcome!) in a 1.8 mile walk to “plant seeds of love.” The parade starts at 9:00 a.m. and our group will join at the corner of Elizabeth and Mary Streets.

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Registration is now $20 and includes a T-shirt for the event. The fee can be paid online at www.2ndpc.org/give, Venmo (@chs2ndpc), submitted in the offering plate, or delivered to the church office. Please include the description PRIDE with your payment.

Please meet the group in the church parking lot (corner of Elizabeth and John Streets) by 8:30 a.m. on Saturday morning. We’ll have a banner, handouts, and new blue church T-shirts. Bring water and any flags or posters you’d like to carry.

Pride Committee Chair: Aled Pritchard, aledpritchard@gmail.com

Questions? Find some resources below.

Resources:

The History of Pride

What Is Pride Month and the History of Pride?

The Bible and Same-Sex Marriage - Significant Passages of Scripture to Consider Regarding Marriage

Frequently Asked Questions - Same-Gender Marriage

Source: pride

Pride Sunday

June 9, 2021 Guest User

Pride Sunday Fellowship and Service

At the culmination of Pride Month, Second Presbyterian Church is hosting a community viewing of the pre-recorded PC(USA) worship service in the fellowship hall. This service will draw on themes of introspection, divine rest, surrender, and transformation. Casual service and a time of fellowship Sunday, June 27th at 5pm. Friends, visitors, and children welcome.

Creator God,
you love all that you have created, and you celebrate the diversity of your creation. We ask that you give us the grace to celebrate our LGBTQ+ siblings as they live authentically in the world. Be with those who feel unsafe to live their true identity. May they know they are not alone and that you, the God of love, celebrates and affirms their lives. Teach us to honor and celebrate their gifts and help us to create a world in which your LGBTQ+ children are loved, accepted and celebrated, in every space and every place that speaks your name.
Amen.

2020 Pride Report

May 21, 2020 Guest User

April 21. 2020

We had a great turnout for our first time participating in the Pride parade. 50 members and supporters had signed up either to walk or for moral and financial support. There was a great atmosphere amongst the 34 walkers representing all different groups of the church as we set out down John Street. The kids did a great job decorating the truck with the Second Presbyterian name and “You Are Loved” slogan for which we won best truck at the Pride Festival! As we went along we handed out Second Presbyterian postcards inviting everyone to join us for a service and the bible verse Micah 6:8, “seek justice, love mercy, walk humbly.” It was such a great day bringing everyone together for a great celebration of God's love.

view the 2020 annual report here

Walk with us at Charleston Pride!

August 1, 2019 Guest User

Second Presbyterian Church Pride Walk & Lunch

One of the coolest and most significant things about Charleston is not just the beautiful Palmetto trees or our mutual distaste for mosquitos, but our diversity. This diversity is on display right here in Second Presbyterian Church!

We are a multi-ethnic, inter-generational, affirming church growing and evolving to joyfully face the challenges of a world so in need of Christ's teaching, love and inexhaustible grace. We are unapologetically inclusive and this inclusivity is a direct reflection of the Kingdom of Heaven.

As great stewards of God’s work, promoting Jesus’ love for all, our session has unanimously decided to participate in the 2019 Charleston Pride Parade on September 14th - six weeks away!

Starting at Wragg Mall on Meeting Street and ending at Colonial Lake, we ask for the delight in both your encouragement and support in joining other members of this church in a 1.8 mile walk promoting love and unity, in the spirit of reflecting that our house, being God’s house, has no borders, bounds or walls, and that truly all are welcome.

Registration is just $15, which goes directly toward church t-shirts and food for a lunch hosted at the church at the conclusion of the parade. Other participating congregations will be invited to the lunch and it will be open to the community, so the meal will be a wonderful time of fellowship.

If you would be so called to join us on the walk, at the lunch, or through your support, please sign up!

-Joshua Hall

Pride Committee: Aled Pritchard, Sarah Stevens, Joshua Hall, and Meredith Mosny.

Questions? Find some resources below.

The $15 fee can be paid online at www.2ndpc.org/give, submitted in the offering plate, or delivered to the church office. Please include the description pride with your payment. Please plan to meet the group at the church at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday morning.