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.
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Worship with us
this Sunday!
Local Sunday
Worship Services
11am  & 6pm

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The Rock MCC:  serving the local area over 21 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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Brad Rice is visiting us this Sunday & preaching in am & pm worship services.
Brad Rice is our candidate for Provisional Pastor.
 
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All About God's Realm
-God's work on this earth through us, The Rock MCC.

Welcome!
Calendar of Current Events
Weekly NewsLetters
Upcoming Events for the New Year, 2010
Directions to The Rock MCC
Our Church Mission
Pastor
Administrative Team
Region 2 Elders
MCC Moderator
Our Church Profile
Office Hours - The Rock MCC Essential Info!
Information (Main Links)
New Events to Attend (Seasonal)
Misc Info-News (Community Events)
Rock News -Events
Our Service to this area
Contact Information
Emergency Contacts

Our Telephone Ministry
Our E-mail Ministry

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The Rock MCC  Essential Info!

Temporary
Pastor

Rev. Tessie Mandeville  
 
Local church phone: 1-423-629-2737

Rev Tessie Mandeville close-up photo

MCC
Region 2
Regional
Elders

Rev. Elder Darlene Garner; MCC Region 2 Regional Elder

Rev. Elder Ken Martin; MCC Region 2 Regional Elder

MCC Moderator

   Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson
    e-mail: RevNancyWilson@MCCchurch.net
    phone: 1-941-755-5771
    Fax:     1-941-847-0867

Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson; MCC Moderator

Church Board
of Directors

Administrative Team

Rev. Tessie Mandeville -pastor,
Bob Angle, Cheri Harr, Ken Carroll,
David Howard, Rev. Janice Mynchenberg

 

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
MAP
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street view)

(Driving SouthWest from Knoxville TN:
From I-75 in TN take Exit 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)

 

        Click Here for Picture of Church Building & Grounds

 

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 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 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 Mission Statement

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[NOTICE:  Would someone render this mission statement into an art form on a circle? And send it to us as a graphic / picture /art.  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,  around the outer circle "Jesus" "Tools" "Service"...  with a picture, drawing of a "Cross", a "Bible", "Prayer"  -a "praying hands"- interwoven in the middle of the circle and overlapping to the outside of circle.   "Lead" goes with "Jesus",  "Equip" goes with "Tools",  "Send" goes with "Service".  "The Rock MCC" around top outer logo, and "Our Church Mission" around the bottom of the symbol. Must be very find detail to be small enough to serve as a Christian symbol.  Basically 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 page, used on letter heads, on jewelry, window & bumper stickers. It would be copyrighted by The Rock MCC.    Thanks, Bernard]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 20th 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 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:
           12:00 PM (Noon) - 8:00 PM,  on  Tues, Wed, Thurs  (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 and the Bible class
Membership Inquirers Class

 

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About Us
 

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!

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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[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
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(Laptop) by Bernard Wotton
Bernard's Phone: 1-423-243-7323 or 1-423-933-7708
(Now also using Microsoft Expression Web 2  to edit this church website.)
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