Solidarity Circles
Solidarity circles are a way of the Methodist Church supporting people in different diversities of the Church’s life through offering regular on-line opportunities to meet, to support one another, and to raise with relevant Church leaders the concerns that need to be addressed.
Solidarity Circles established are:
- Solidarity Circle for Carers
- Solidarity Circle for Disability
- Solidarity Circle for LGBT+
- Solidarity Circle for Racial Justice
- Solidarity Circle for Rural Communities
- Solidarity Circle for Women
If you have any questions about Solidarity Circles please email equality&diversity@methodistchurch.org.uk
Terms of Reference for Solidarity Circles in the Methodist Church
Solidarity Circle for LGBT+
Coordinator: Pam Gold
Hi I'm Pam Gold. I currently live on the Isle of Man and attend a Methodist chapel there.
I am also an ordained elder with the URC church.
Having been on the wrong and painful end of discrimination in church following my coming out I feel passionately about including all in our faith communities.
In my experience, it's easy to be isolated from other LGBT+ Christians.
I am looking forward to meeting together with the Solidarity Circle members to listen and learn from everyone’s perspective, so that we might speak with one voice.
Solidarity Circle for Racial Justice
Coordinator: Rev Dr Kennedy Gondongwe
My name is Kennedy Gondongwe. I am a presbyter in the Methodist Church in Great Britain and currently stationed in Oldham Circuit
My heart is so close to issues of equality and diversity because I lived in a country that excluded others and often saw people as “them against us.”
My hope is that through our collective ministry we can get to a point where we can say “ I am because you are”.