In another episode of Go Tell It On The Mountain, The Rev. Elizabeth Chandler Felts tells Executive Conference Minister the Rev. Darrell Goodwin that the search committee that called her to serve described their church – Beneficent Congregational Church UCC, in Providence, RI – as a “messy downtown church.”
“I said: that’s the church for me. I’m ready for messy,” said Rev. Felts, who had served six other churches and as a hospice chaplain in various parts of the country prior to coming to Providence over three years ago.
“Beneficent is a bit of an anomaly in New England,” she said. “It’s robustly multiracial. It is aggressively open and affirming. It has a huge spectrum, theologically: everything from confirmed atheists to old-line liberals to Pentecostals to people who also practice Judaism and ancestor worship and Rastafarianism and Buddhism and other things. It’s a great range of ages. And it also has a huge socioeconomic spectrum.”
Visit https://www.sneucc.org/newsdetail/go-tell-it-on-the-mountain-a-messy-church-16496728 to read the full article and watch the full interview.
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