Ulfilas Goth

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Ulfilas Christian Goth International A light shines in the darkness...

Building bridges between contemporary Gothic culture and the Body of Christ.

Mission Statement
Ulfilas Christian Goth International (UCGI), being Anglican-based, seeks to build bridges between contemporary Gothic culture and the body of Christ, promoting the ingathering, acceptance, and encouragement of these peoples by local congregations.

Principal Ministry
As an Anglican-based, ecumenical organization, our ministry is to Goth-identified persons, their related groups, sympathetic alternative and other “fringe” groups, and to their friends and relatives. Our primary purpose is to build bridges that that help bring persons in these communities and their friends into local congregations. We seek their acceptance, encouragement, and nurture in Christian life and fellowship by the church.

We welcome both lay and ordained members of these communities and their friends, within the Anglican Communion and its partner denominations. In addition, we want to seek out, minister to and edify persons in these communities, as well as their friends, who are currently a part of local congregations.

We also seek to affirm and support persons in these communities and their friends, in whatever place they are in society, regardless of their difference from ourselves or the church’s mainstream. We aspire to build unity and promote peace among all persons outside and within the body of Christ.

Who We Are
We are a ministry primarily but not entirely made up of Gothic-identified persons and their friends. Our message is offered to the ecumenical Church and to the world. We believe that all peoples deserve unconditional acceptance and dignity in the body of Christ and the larger world.

We are Anglican-based but not exclusively Anglican. Our basic beliefs and traditions are Anglican, but our mission is ecumenical and universal. Also, we accept and minister to anyone who comes to us, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, community identification, ethnic group, nationality, location, or Christian religious beliefs. Persons from other Christian religious traditions are welcome into our fellowship as long as they accept the validity of Anglican faith and practice.

We emphatically advocate an end to human discrimination, especially against persons who identify with the Goth Community and other communities named in the Principal Ministry section previously. We welcome into our fold anyone sincerely willing to join with us.

We strive toward the ecumenical building of a Christ-centered world and society, which are safer places where every person can live and love. Above all, we proclaim the good news that the world and all people in it have been liberated and redeemed by Jesus Christ.