Mission
GLIDE MEMORIAL CHURCH BELIEVES AND PRACTICES A CHRISTIANITY WHERE ALL PEOPLE AND ALL BELIEFS ARE WELCOMED. GROUNDED IN IMPERATIVES OF LIBERATION; UNCONDITIONAL LOVE; SELF, SYSTEMIC AND WORLD TRANSFORMATION GLIDE MEMORIAL CHURCH NURTURES THE SPIRITUAL NEEDS OF OUR CONGREGATION AND COMMUNITY. THROUGH ACTS OF RECOVERY, SERVICE, JUSTICE, CONNECTION, TRANSFORMATION AND CELEBRATION WE EXIST AS A SACRED SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY TO MANY AND TO ALL. WE LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE ALL WHO SEEK TO EXPRESS THEIR CONNECTION TO SPIRIT AND COMMUNITY, CAN DO SO IN A THRIVING ECOSYSTEM OF LOVE.THE "WORK OF OUR HANDS" IS THE SPIRITUAL DRIVING FORCE FOR GLIDE MEMORIAL CHURCH. BY INTENTIONALLY WORKING TOGETHER AND WITH OUR PARTNERS, WE ACTIVELY WORK TO DISMANTLE ALL FORMS OF STRUCTURAL RACISM AND ALL FORMS OF INTERNALIZED AND EXTERNALIZED OPPRESSION. THIS IS OUR WORK AND OUR CALLING AS A RADICALLY INCLUSIVE, OPEN AND AFFIRMING, EXTRAVAGANTLY WELCOMING, UNCONDITIONALLY LOVING CHURCH, CALLED TO THE MANY FOREFRONTS