About Us

In 1968, a young man named Troy Perry decided that things needed to be different for LGBT people of faith. Having been turned away by his home church and his family because he is gay, he decided to start a church in Los Angeles where LGBT people could worship freely. Twelve people attended the first worship service, held in his living room. That small gathering in 1968 launched the international movement of Metropolitan Community Churches, which today has grown to 43,000 members and almost 300 congregations in 22 countries.
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Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Saint Louis (MCCGSL) was founded in October 1973. And, like our parent church, we started small: ten people attended our first service. But those ten people, full of faith and vision and determination to make a difference, began a church which today has nearly 400 in membership and has ministered to thousands throughout the Greater St. Louis.