This coming Saturday you are invited to join your brothers and sisters from Open And Affirming UCC Congregations throughout the Valley of the Sun as we march together in the 13th Annual Phoenix Pride Parade.
For folks who don’t know, here is word from the Pride Parade website describing exactly what it is all about:
For 30 years Phoenix Pride has been organizing marches, rallies, parades and entertainment/educational events to celebrate the Phoenix LGBT community. For 13 years Phoenix Pride has produced the Pride Parade with over 130 entries from walking groups to some of the most spectacular floats you've ever seen.
The Phoenix Pride Parade is the kick-off event to the two day Pride Festival designed to bring our diverse LGBT and allied communities together for a weekend of camaraderie and celebration of our past, present and future while raising funds for Phoenix Pride and its community programs. The Parade brings 2,500+ individual participants and 10,000+ spectators.
Those of us who marched last year had a terrific time, and we want to encourage more members and friends to come out and join us! We are meeting up in the parking lot of First Congregational UCC (2nd Street and McDowell; right around the corner from Encanto!). Plan on meeting up at First Congregational at 10 AM on Saturday, April 17th. Step off is at 11 AM and we’ll march together all the way to Steele Indian School Park.
Remember to bring a hat, sunglasses, and a bottle of water. I’ll bring the church banner so that we can show off Encanto Community Church as “Caring Christians Joined in Faith.” It is going to be a great day. Hope to see you there!
Yours in the journey, Rev. Brian
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