Trinity United Methodist Church & The Southwest Texas Reconciling United Methodists are honored to host Jimmy Creech, former United Methodist Pastor & author of Adam’s Gift: A Memoir of a Pastor’s Calling to Defy the Church’s Persecution of Lesbian & Gays.

All are invited and welcome to attend any and all of the weekend events. Please RSVP to Britt Cox at brittany.rm.cox@gmail.com.

Book Signing & Conversation with Jimmy Creech
TUMC
Saturday May 7th
10am-12pm
*books will be available for purchase

Reconciling United Methodist Potluck
TUMC
Saturday May 7th
6pm-8pm
*Please RSVP to attend or to volunteer as a table host: brittany.rm.cox@gmail.com

Mother’s Day Church Services
TUMC
Sermons by Rev. Jimmy Creech
Sunday May 8th
9:15 & 11:15

“Jimmy Creech, a United Methodist pastor in North Carolina, was visited one morning in 1984 by Adam, a longtime parishioner whom he liked and respected. Adam said that he was gay, and that he was leaving the United Methodist Church, which had just pronounced that no ‘self-avowed practicing homosexual’ could be ordained. He would not be part of a community that excluded him. Creech found himself instinctively supporting Adam, telling him that he was sure that God loved and accepted him as he was.

Adam’s Gift is Creech’s inspiring first-person account of how that conversation transformed his life and ministry. Creech was tried twice by The United Methodist Church, and, after the second trial, his ordination credentials were revoked. Adam’s Gift is a moving story and an important chapter in the unfinished struggle for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil and human rights.” – Excerpt from Adam’s Gift.