Chicago Coalition of Welcoming Churches

Celebrating God's love for all people.

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St. Pauls United Church of Christ

2335 N Orchard St
Chicago, IL 60614

Rev. Thomas R. Henry, Senior Pastor
Rev. Avena A. Ward, Associate Pastor
Rev. Jeff Carlson, Associate Pastor

Phone: 773-348-3829
Fax: 773-348-3858
Email:
Website: www.spucc.org

Parking is available on Sundays in the church parking lot in the 600 block of west Kemper Place and in the Children's Memorial Hospital garage in the 2300 block of north Lincoln Ave. For free parking in the garage, have your ticket validated in the church office.

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Schedule of Activities

Our regular worship services are held very Sunday at 11:00a.m.
During the summer, services are held at 10:00a.m.

The GLBT & Friends group meets for brunch after the 11:00a.m. service on the third Sunday of the month.

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Other Information

Our motto is "Making A Joyful Sound in the City", and we try to do this through worship, education, fellowship and service. We are an open and affirming church welcoming into membership all persons regardless of race, color, age, marital status, national origin, gender, sexual orientation or physical ability.

Open and Affirming (ONA) congregations in the United Church of Christ are those which believe that people of all sexual orientations are children of God, created in the image of God, and are therefore welcome in the full life and ministry of the church. The United Church of Christ is the only mainline denomination to ordain into ministry those who are gay or lesbian. St. Pauls Church has been an Open and Affirming congregation for many years, even before publicly declaring itself so in a revised mission statement voted by the congregation at its annual meeting in 1989.

St. Pauls joins similar churches in several mainline denominations in being part of what is called the Welcoming Church Movement. We are greatly pleased at St. Pauls to have the full participation of gay and lesbian Christians in the leadership of the church.