by James Whitely - SGN Contributing Writer

The Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) Seattle recently joined the University District Ecumenical Campus Coalition (UDECC). Members of MCC voted unanimously September 27 to accept UDECC's offer to join in a feasibility study.

The purpose of UDECC is to gather progressive local congregations of various denominations into a single "urban development project," in which they can worship separately or together in shared spaces throughout the city to create a single community of progressive believers.

The coalition is now made up of mostly Lutheran, Episcopal, American Baptist, and Methodist churches.

UDECC has a progressive approach to resources and land use planning that they call "a next-generation solution that we hope will be modeled by many kinds of social, business and community groups in years to come."

UDECC sees the church as a community center, not just a religious center.

Reverend Ray Neal, pastor of MCC, said, "Joining the UDECC feasibility study gives us some remarkable long-range possibilities that we would not have available to us as a single congregation. & The whole idea of UDECC is to make ministry more feasible, less expensive, and more productive than it might be if we had to support our own facility with limited funding."

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