All God's Children Reconciling Community of First UMC Hendersonville NC

11/17/2025

We are overjoyed to celebrate today’s decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to decline revisiting the landmark ruling that upholds marriage equality. 🏳️‍🌈

At RMN, we believe every person created in God’s image deserves dignity, love, and the freedom to form faithful, committed relationships. This moment is an affirmation of that sacred truth.

Let us give thanks and continue working in our churches, our communities, and our world to build the beloved, inclusive Church our faith calls us to.

09/03/2025

With deep sadness we share the news of the sudden death of Helen Ryde. Helen helped with the start of All God’s Children. They will be missed. Please keep their family in your prayers.

We have heartbreaking news to share with you, and we wish we could do this with you in person. On the morning of Tuesday, September 2nd, Helen Ryde died unexpectedly in their home.

We mourn because Helen had so much left to do – not just through their role at RMN but in the love they had yet to receive and give, their compassion and thoughtfulness, their authenticity and courage.

We'll have chances in the coming days to recollect Helen's ministry. For now, we welcome you to share below and be for each other a cloud of comfort. (Please honor Helen's pronouns, they/them, as a part of who Helen was and is.)

Read on for more about Helen's life and legacy: https://hubs.li/Q03GBsl_0

07/05/2025

[text reads:

independence,
we ask of you God,
from bo***ge of
all kinds.

from apathy

from savage cruelty

(we do this to each other,
to our own –
we do this)

from amnesia
(are we first neighbors
or are we consumers?
and who/what
are the consumed?)

from despair,
which looks like anger.

from distance,
from separateness,
the one-act play of
independence,
deliver us, loving God.]

05/28/2025

Please give a warm welcome to the newest Reconciling Ministry of the movement: The Reconciling Big Group of All Saints UMC, a church plant in Trussville, AL!

You can visit their website here: https://hubs.li/Q03ps_l50

And visit All Saints' website here: https://hubs.li/Q03ps_-n0

05/23/2025

As United Methodists, we believe basic human rights, civil liberties and protections are due all persons regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

05/22/2025

Please give a warm welcome to the newest Reconciling Ministry of the movement: The Choir of United Methodist Church of Thousand Oaks in Thousand Oaks, CA!

You can visit their website here: https://hubs.li/Q03nPTMR0

05/01/2025

All God’s Children and FUMC of Hendersonville were one of 14 faith communities at the PFLAG Faith communities forum last night at Trinity Presbyterian Church. It is a joy to meet other welcoming people of faith.

04/30/2025

Please give a warm welcome to the newest Reconciling Ministry of the movement: WingspanILM at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington!

You can visit their website here: https://hubs.li/Q03kwv4t0

04/29/2025

Christian clergy including Rev. William Barber II were arrested at the U.S. Capitol yesterday for praying – asking for mercy in advance of a vote on an inhumane federal budget.

The illusion of Christianity is this administration's thin veneer. The vendors' tables are in the halls of power. Jesus would send them crashing onto the marble and chase out the oppressors with whips.

04/17/2025

On Monday, April 14, United Methodists participated in a Q***r Christian Leaders and Allies Gathering on Capitol Hill. Sponsored by the Collective of Q***r Christian Leaders, ecumenical participants from across the U.S. joined in the press conference to denounce Christian Nationalism and call for the church to be in solidarity with LGBTQIA persons, immigrants, and all people being impacted by the Trump administration’s harmful policies.