Voices from the Margins to be Heard in Worship at Mt Baker Park
Seattle Presbytery
During a presidential election cycle when many groups of Americans have been labeled as unimportant, dangerous, or unwelcome, Mt Baker Park Presbyterian Church (MBPPC) will offer a series of dialogue sermons lifting up the voices of people from some of these groups. Beginning on Pentecost Sunday, May 15, the sermon at MBPPC will take the form of a dialogue between Pastor Leland Seese and a different guest on the 3rd Sunday of each month through November.
Guests will include Muslims, People of Color, People Who Identify as LGBTQ, Jews, People Living with Addictions and Mental Illness, and People with No Permanent Home. Each guest will tell the story of his or her faith journey (or no-faith journey), and what life is like day-to-day. The goal of the series is simply to extend welcome and give voice to men and women among us whose voices, and very personhood, are being rejected, “othered”, or oppressed by many of their fellow citizens.