National Coming Out Day Prayer Breakfast

This is one of our most popular and anticipated events.  This annual event was begun in 1996 in response to a similar event by a local conservative, homophobic religious group.   Every year, on the Saturday before National Coming Out Day, we gather at a local restaurant for a fully catered breakfast that includes time to meet and mingle with one another, a time of collective prayer for those coming out, and a lecture by a featured speaker.  

Some of our past speakers have included:

• Chris Glaser, openly gay author (The Word is Out, Coming Out to God, Uncommon Calling), now pastoring Metropolitan Community Church San Francisco.   
• Father John J. McNeil, author of the classic book The Church and the Homosexual
• Justin Cannon, Phi Beta Kappa scholar and founder of www.truthsetsfree.net.  He was voted a Gen-Q Hero by Advocate magazine.  
• Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, theologian and author (Omnigender: A Trans-Religious Approach; Is the Homosexual My Neighbor?)
• Rev. Dr. Robert E. Goss, theologian and author (Jesus Acted Up; Our Families, Our Values; Take Back the Word; and Queering Christ)
• Cathy Mong, social justice reporter for The Dayton Daily News, and Rev. Beth Holten, pastor of St. Paul United Methodist Church in Dayton.

The next prayer breakfast is scheduled for October 11, 2008, with Mr. Jay Moore as a guest speaker.  For more information, call the church office (937.254.2087) or e-mail office@eternaljoymcc.org.