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Welcome to this Church website of Christian Faith. The official website of "The Rock Metropolitan Community Church" ("The Rock MCC")
This local MCC church is part of the worldwide "Metropolitan Community Churches" ("MCC") located in geographical area: MCC Region 2.

Worship with us this Sunday!
Worship Services: 11am, 6pm
Rev. Brad Rice, Pastor
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"on this rock I [Jesus] will build my church" (Matthew 16:18)                                  Click MCC logo above to enter church world headquarters website
The Rock MCC: serving the local area over 22 years (09-1988)                                                MCC:   serving the world over 41 years (10-1968)
The Rock MCC 1601 Foust St, Chattanooga TN 37404 Phone: 423-629-2737                                UFMCC P.O. Box 1374 Abilene TX 79604 Phone: 310-360-8640

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All About God's Realm -God's work on this earth through us, The Rock MCC.

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The Rock MCC Essential Info!

Provisional Pastor	Rev. Brad Rice brad_rice81@yahoo.com Local church phone: 1-423-629-2737
MCC Region 2 Regional Elders	*Rev. Elder Darlene Garner* MCC Vice Moderator RevDarleneGarner@MCCchurch.net *Rev. Elder Ken Martin* RevKenMartin@MCCchurch.net
MCC Moderator	*Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson* MCC Moderator e-mail: RevNancyWilson@MCCchurch.net phone: 1-941-755-5771 Fax: 1-941-847-0867
Church Board of Directors	*Administrative Team* Rev. Brad Rice -pastor, Bob Angle, Cheri Harr, Ken Carroll, David Howard
Office Hours (excluding holidays)	Tues - Thurs 12:00pm (Noon) - 8:00pm
Worship Services	Sunday 11am, 6pm (EST) (Local time = Eastern time zone; Coordinated Universal Time -5 hours)
Church Address	Directions The Rock MCC 1601 Foust Street, Chattanooga, TN 37404 USA
Directions click on MAP (After open link, double-click on map picture to see more options, street view)	(Driving SouthWest from Knoxville TN: From I-75 in TN take Exit 2 to start of I-24) (I-24 [going West] begins at Exit 2 on I-75) Take I-24 to Rossville Blvd South (Exit 180B) Take 1st left off Rossville Blvd to Foust St Go 1 block to corner of Foust & Watauga St (Enter 1601 Foust Street Chattanooga TN into your GPS system)

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Our Service to this area

Our Service to This Area

The Rock MCC has been serving for over 21 years the greater Chattanooga, Cleveland, and Dalton areas, and their surrounding communities in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama.

We have been preaching and teaching the Christian Good News of the all inclusive love of God and the saving healing grace of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, and His finished work of our total salvation by His life on earth, His sacrificial death on the cross for our sins and for our victory in daily living, His resurrection, His ascension, His sending of the Holy Spirit of God, and His soon return to take us to our heavenly home!

Our Church Mission

Our Church Mission Statement

The Rock MCC is committed to:
*LEAD*	people to Jesus Christ!
*EQUIP*	them with the tools to grow spiritually & celebrate Christian diversity!
*SEND*	them out to serve Christ, the Church, the Community, & one another!

	(This is an ever growing empowering loving circle, an ever more enlarging circle of growth in Christian spirituality and service. Lead, Equip, and Send, which in turn, Leads again, Equips again, and Sends again, and again, and again...) (see: Faith & Beliefs)

[NOTICE: Would someone render this church mission statement into an art form on a circle? And give it to me, Bernard, as a graphic/picture/art drawing on paper, or in an email in digital format. I have ideas, but am not an artist; I would know when I see it, -if I like it, and it conforms to my vision of the symbol. The words "Lead" "Equip" "Send" on, within a small wide circle with 3 curved arrows between the words, and around the outer circle "Jesus" "Tools" "Service"... with a picture, drawing of a slanted "Cross", an "Open Bible", and "Prayer" --in the form of a "praying hands"-- interwoven in the middle of the circle, kind of like a background image and overlapping to the outside of circle. The 'Cross' would be the largest, with a smaller 'Open Bible' under the top beam, with a still smaller 'praying hands' in the middle of the Bible. "Lead" goes with "Jesus", "Equip" goes with "Tools", "Send" goes with "Service". "The Rock MCC" around top outer logo, and "Church Mission" around the bottom of the symbol. It must be very find detail to be small enough to serve as a Christian symbol. Basically it must be a very fine drawing art in the six colors of the gay rainbow flag to serve as a logo of our church mission statement. --Which can be used at this place on this web page, used on letter heads, on jewelry, window stickers & bumper stickers. It would be copyrighted by The Rock MCC. Thanks, Bernard, website manager.]

Praise God! We now out right own our church and church property; the mortgage is paid off! We celebrated when a copy of the mortgage note was burned during our 20^th Anniversary held in September, 2008! See NOTICE under Our Mission Statement.

For the last 15 years, thanks to ALL who prayed for us, and supported us through your money, time and talents! Thanks for your continued prayer, support and gifts! God Bless You!

A little known fact: the deed to what was an office complex stated that it was not to be sold to "colored folks"; well, our church is made up of people of all colors -on the church board, on the church teams, and in the congregation! Thank God, times change; God loves ALL people of all colors -as that little kid's song says. We are truly a "Rainbow" people of Christian faith!

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Contact information

Contact Information   (see: Emergency Contacts below) .

Church Telephone:
        1-423-629-2737   (Voice Mail when busy, or during services & events.)

Church Office Hours:
           (except holidays & time off)
Church USA Postal Address:
        The Rock MCC
        1601 Foust Street   (Directions Map)
        Chattanooga TN 37404 USA

Church Electronic E-mail:
        General Information: therockmcc@yahoo.com
       Webmaster (website manager, Bernard Wotton): BernardW69@aol.com
Emergency Contacts

Emergency Contacts

Our Telephone Ministry. In case of an emergency, such as a hospitalization, or if news is to be communicated immediately, please contact one of these people as soon as possible. They will be responsible for contacting others by phone that are listed in our church directory, or our church e-mail list. (see also above: Contact Information)

Person	Cell	Home	E-mail
Tracy Brown	423-580-7336		earthtracy@aol.com

Our E-mail Ministry. In an extreme emergency call Tracy Brown at 423-580-7336 & leave a message. He'll send out e-mail only to all on our church e-mail list. For non-emergency items such as Prayer/Praise use e-mail.

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New Events to Attend

New Events to Attend...

Homosexuality [being Gay] and the Bible class
Membership Inquirers Class

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About Us

We're Straight & Gay Christians, serving the (GLBTQQI) Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersexual and the Gay-friendly, Allied & Straight communities of greater metro Chattanooga TN area since 1988.

This is an All Affirming Website. Our church is an All Welcoming, Open, Loving, Joyful, Christ-like, & All Affirming Congregation.*****

We are pro-Bible. We are people of True Christian Faith &Values. We are truly Christians who are daily being changed into the real image of God in Jesus Christ. We are people of Bible study and prayer, and fellowshipping with other believers.

We believe in True Family Values; we are pro-family for ALL families and their issues. We are pro-life for ALL living human beings. We believe in full human rights for ALL peoples in the USA, and in the world.

We believe in non-discrimination against peoples of any kind. We believe that ALL peoples in the USA and the world are equal. We believe ALL children of ALL marriages are of great value. We believe that ALL people of the USA and of the whole world are of great value. We believe that the modern Christian movement should treat ALL people as ONE in Christ.

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An All Affirming Congregation is one that welcomes Gays into all of the life of the local church, and is gay-friendly, and believes one CAN be Christian and Gay at the same time, since God created all peoples including Gays.

We accept all people, no matter where on life's journey they are at the moment. If you are seeking for truth and knowledge, and seeking for a closer walk with God, come visit and grow with us.

We believe in the transforming power of the Holy Spirit of God working in our hearts, souls, bodies, minds, and in our lives to be more like Jesus. But that process does NOT change our sexual orientation any more then it changes our skin color or gender. These are some things God will never do, nor have any reason to change.

There are some Affirming Congregations in most denominations today. You have to go to their local church website to find more info.

This is opposed -in contrast- to churches that are Transforming Congregations, which means one can NOT be Christian and Gay, but they welcome Gays that are seeking to transform into a "Straight" lifestyle. We believe that view to be an utter impossibility, sinful, and also un-Biblical, and against ALL modern scientific intelligence and information.

Most churches are neither, that is, they ignore gay people of faith, or else boot them out from their membership and churches (which is very sad and very un-Christ-like in deed).

You are all welcome at The Rock MCC church! Welcome Home!

May "trouble makers" be changed by the power of God even before they pass by our church property, before they enter the door of our church building!

Visit us this Sunday! May God Bless you all in the Name of Jesus!

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nor by The Rock MCC church. We are not responsible for the content of other websites.) Date last modified: September 1, 2010
[Website is edited directly from my computer in Collegedale TN USA, or on my laptop when not at home.] Photo of Bernard L Wotton
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Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (Laptop) by Bernard Wotton. Bernard's Cell Phone: 1-423-933-7708 or 1-423-243-7323
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