The Rev. Troy Perry of the Metropolitan Community Churches will speak at the fall convocation of Lancaster Theological Seminary 11 a.m. Sept. 18 in the Santee Chapel.
MCC is probably the most prominent of the small, Christian denominations dedicated to ministering to the GLBT community. The 43,000-member church specifically endorses gay clergy.
MCC was founded in 1968 (a year before New York's Stonewall Riots) to provide "a primary, positive ministry" to gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people, according to its Web site. Perry began the church in suburban Los Angeles after he was defrocked by a Pentecostal denomination because of his homosexuality.
Perry will speak on "Imagining the Church's Ministry Based on Luke 4:18-19."
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