Metropolitan Community Church London - MCC North London

MCC North London

Mcc North London is located in Camden. MCC North London began as a Bible study in the early 1980s sponsored by the then existing MCC London church. They gained chartered church status within the Universal Fellowship of MCC and the founding pastor was the Reverend Elder Hong Tan. In response to the early AIDS pandemic they launched a programme called 'God's Love We Deliver', which became the independent charity The Food Chain. Reverend Elder Jill Storey, Rev. Tan's successor, continuing the social justice ministries throughout the 1990s, Tan became pastor again following Storey until the Reverend Pressley Sutherland became pastor beginning Easter 2001. Before legalised Civil Partnerships for same-sex and transgender couples, MCC North London hosted The Blessing Tent at London Pride for several years, during which time more than 500 couples were "Blessed and affirmed into Holy Union as a public witness and demonstration of the validity of such partnerships". In December 2005 a vicar for the church and her partner became the first "same-sex couple to be legally married in Britain" after the passage of the Civil Partnership Bill. In 2008, under the interim pastorship of Rev Sharon Ferguson The group has continued to advocate for LGBTQ issues including a call for sensitivity training in Jamaica following many attacks and several murders of lesbians and gays.