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BMCC’s 2024 New Year message — gratitude for the twelve co-workers who have just taken office, encouragement to keep Christ’s love central, and an invitation to walk together through the year with steady faith and humble service.

BMCC’s 2024 Lent invitation. Lent begins 14 February; Easter falls 31 March. Forty days of self-reflection, spiritual practice, fasting, and charity — and for some, preparation for Easter baptism. An invitation to walk together as a church body through this season of transformation.

An open letter from BMCC’s 301 discipleship class welcoming those interested in BMCC or visiting for the first time. The letter addresses the questions LGBTQ+ believers have wrestled with — Is homosexuality a sin? Does God love LGBTQ+ people? Is BMCC heretical? — sharing reflections that emerged from six months of theological study and discussion.

A letter from BMCC’s 2023 Growth Course 301 ‘Fireman’ group, reflecting on Psalm 78:14 (the cloud and fire that led Israel through the wilderness). As LGBTQ+ Christians pushed to the edge of the edge, the group has found in BMCC a small home, learned to read ‘sin’ as separation from belonging (Marcus Borg), and seeks to walk by love and justice — like wind and fire — out of the wilderness.

A letter from BMCC’s 2023 Growth Course 301 ‘Undefined Group’ to the church’s pastors. After months of re-examining the relationship between life and faith, members share testimonies of leaving the wounding rigidity of conservative churches and finding at BMCC a pluralistic theology that lets them be honest, healed, and re-opened to love and justice.

From the ‘Conversion — the Pink That Cannot Be Hidden’ series. A profile of Pastor Hong (Cheng Tze-hong), then a trainee missionary at BMCC, who embraces pluralistic theology: ‘Faith is not for excluding or controlling others — it is for living together in love and justice.’ Hong recounts his journey from a 2,000-member traditional church to finding belonging at BMCC.

From the ‘Conversion — the Pink That Cannot Be Hidden’ series. A reporter goes undercover at the New Creation Association, accused of practising conversion therapy on sexual minorities. The investigation documents the leading questions, the framing of homosexuality as ‘acquired,’ the suspected ‘ex-gay’ social worker, and the secretive operational practices.

From the ‘Conversion — the Pink That Cannot Be Hidden’ series. Thomas (pseudonym) describes his 2018–2020 search for ‘conversion therapy’ across two organisations. Driven by self-hatred and the absence of any safe space to be himself, he saw conversion as his only path. Two years out, he reflects on the absurdity of the experience and on the counsellor’s self-deception.

From the ‘Conversion — the Pink That Cannot Be Hidden’ series. Alvin Cheung underwent a year of ‘conversion therapy’ at the New Creation Association in 2005. Eighteen years later, having been diagnosed with complex PTSD, he is committed to walking alongside other LGBTQ+ survivors — ‘I hope there won’t be another victim.’

GSKL (Good Samaritan Kuala Lumpur) — Malaysia’s only openly affirming LGBTQ+ church — launches ‘The Roof’ Project, a fundraising campaign for an inclusive community shelter and safe space. Goal: RM 700,000 (≈HKD 1.33M). Donations can be made through BMCC for a Hong Kong tax receipt. The Roof will provide queer emergency shelter, Satir counselling, workshops, retreats, and gathering space — sheltering those threatened by Malaysia’s recent crackdown.