Religious / Philosophical
The following religious congregations that are listed on this page, are listed with their explicit consent, and they have indicated to the Pride Collective a clear desire to be known as GLBT-friendly and affirming. The descriptions given in quotation marks are provided by the congregations themselves.
Children of the Living God
Address: P.O. Box 9943, Fargo, ND 58106
Telephone: 701.866.2029
E-mail: PastorJon@Minister.com
“If you belong to the GLBT community, an affirming or reconciling church, or if you are just curious, you are invited to attend our services. Inclusive and non-denominational, we teach what Jesus taught, the Gospel of Life for all people. Celebrating our faith in God, the Lordship of Jesus, and the in filling of the Holy Spirit.”
“Our church has a unique mission: to reach out to the GLBT community in Fargo-Moorhead and surrounding rural areas. We are a ministry by and primarily for this community. We offer an environment within which most people are comfortable being themselves. It is also an environment that challenges people to become the person God wants them to be.”
Services are held Sundays at 6:30 p.m. at the Presentation Center (click for map), 3001 11th St. S., Fargo.
Faith Lutheran Church
A welcoming congregation of the ELCA.
Address: 127 2nd Ave. E., West Fargo
Telephone: 701.282.3309
“Faith Lutheran Church has a long history of welcoming many from the GLBT community to every level of participation in congregational life, including Christian Education staff, Board participation, and Church Council membership. Weekend worship services always include openly gay couples and singles.”
Worship schedule:
Saturdays at 5:00 p.m. (in the sanctuary, old building on east side)
Sundays at 8:00, 9:30, and 11:00 a.m. (in the Worship Center, new building on the west side)
First Congregational United Church of Christ
A welcoming congregation of the UCC.
Address: 406 8th St. S., Moorhead
Telephone: 218.236.1756
Worship: Sundays at 10:00 a.m.
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
A reconciling-in-Christ congregation of the ELCA.
Address: 670 4th Ave. N., Fargo
Telephone: 701.235.5591
“Though our world is a place of alienation and brokenness, Christ calls us to be agents of reconciliation, wholeness, and healing. Gay and lesbian persons are often scorned by society and alienated from the Church. At St. Mark’s all people are called to share in the sacramental and general life of this congregation regardless of their sexual orientation.”
Weekly Eucharist: Sundays 10:00 a.m. (9:00 a.m. in summer)
Midweek Eucharist: Wednesdays 12:15 p.m.
Unitarian Universalist Church of Fargo-Moorhead
Address: 121 9th St. S., Fargo
Telephone: 701.235.0394
“We are a Unitarian Universalist welcoming congregation that seeks to be a spiritual home for people of free faith regardless of race, color, gender, affectional or sexual orientation, age, national origin, socio-economic status, physical or mental ability.”
“The Unitarian Universalist approach to spirituality is basically different from that of religions based on a creed or received revelation. In our search for religious truth, we weigh the religious voices and visions of every place and time on a balance with our own vision and voice. We search the gathered wisdom of humankind – the reason and intuition, the arts and science – and we search our own experience. We enter the combined religious traditions of the Unitarians and the Universalists, offering the life-truths of gay and lesbian and bisexual people.” — from a 1994 pamphlet of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Weekly meetings: Sundays at 11:00 a.m.
