Councillor Phillips, the present Mayor of Brighton and Hove, is a member of the Green Party, and was elected as the MEP for the South East England constituency at the European Parliament elections of May 2019, as the lead candidate on the Green party list.
Mark Kandolsky, a non-binary transgender activist from Saint Petersburg, Russia will speak on Sunday, March 3 at the Village MCC in Kemptown from 6pm.
Ivor Caplin will be the guest speaker at The Village Metropolitan Community Church on July 29.
Ivor was MP for Hove between 1997-2005, during which time he served in the Labour Government as a PPS, FCO whip, and Minister for veterans at the Ministry of Defence. He was also the first Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on English Language Teaching.
The Village Metropolitan Community Church welcomes Lloyd Russell-Moyle as the guest speaker for their Pride service on Sunday, August 5, 2018, at the Somerset Day Centre, in Kemptown at 6pm.
Rev. Kate Harford, will be the guest preacher at the next Village MCC service on Sunday, November 5. Rev. Kate Harford, a priest of the Metropolitan Community Churches is a chaplain at Oxford Brookes University. She studied archaeology, classics, and classical art at UCL in London and theology at the University of Oxford and was ordained in November 2015.
Finola Brophy, the retiring chair of the Rainbow Chorus will be the guest speaker at The Village Metropolitan Community Church on Sunday October 29. Finola lives in Worthing with her partner of nearly 30 years, Liz, though she spends a lot of time and energy in Brighton committed to improving Brighton and Hove’s LGBT+ voluntary and community sector.
Caroline Lucas MP to speak at The Village Metropolitan Community Church on Sunday, October 22. Caroline, the co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, has been the MP for Brighton Pavilion since the 2010 general election when she became the Green Party’s first MP. She was re-elected in the 2015 and 2017 general elections with increased majorities.
In the last of their PROUD VOICES series for Pride 2017, The Village Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) will welcome Rabbi Elli Tikvah to their pulpit on Sunday August 27 at 6pm. Rabbi Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah of the Brighton & Hove Progressive Synagogue describes themselves as a Trouble Making Feminist Lesbian Gender-Queer Rabbi. The first ordained lesbian Rabbi to lead a mainstream synagogue in Britain, Elli has quite a story to tell about claiming a place in the world, with pride.
To mark Mental Health Awareness Month which runs till May 31, The Village Metropolitan Community Church are holding a series of events each Sunday. You can join the Village Metropolitan Community Church for worship on Sundays at 6pm @ The Somerset Day Centre, 62 St James Street in Kemptown, Brighton. There is parking at the rear of the centre. For more information telephone 01273 6679812 OR 07476 667353.
The Village Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) will celebrate Women’s History Month during March with a different woman speaking from the pulpit each Sunday, for the next five weeks.
