Metropolitan Community Church of Pittsburgh has a long, over 50 year, history of maintaining a safe and sacred place for members of the LGBTQ community to grow spiritually. From our first service on January 26, 1975 until today we have provided worship experiences and a wide variety of ministries. We have throughout the years endeavored to provide volunteers to organizations and needy individuals in our community.

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In this first 40 years we have also nurtured and sent out 9 church leaders, who continued to do God's work both in this and other denominations.

 

MCC Pittsburgh has founded, or been involved in founding many service organizations that have served the greater community. We founded the Gay and Lesbian Community Food Bank in 1985, and helped in starting the Lambda Foundation, The Pittsburgh AIDS Taskforce, Shepherd Wellness Community, Ministerial Network on AIDS, and the Interfaith Pride Worship Service.

 

In 2012 we began holding morning worship services in the former St. Martin's Episcopal church in Monroeville, PA. In January 2014 we moved our office, food bank, and all of our worship services, and social functions to St. Martin's where we continue to serve and grow.

 

Through 2014, we continued to answer our calling by working with our denomination, The Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, to do the work we have always done and move further along the path of becoming a social action/social justice church working for human rights locally and globally.

 

This year as 2015 rolled in, our congregation again decided because of necessity that we needed to start the search for a worship space that provided easier access for our members, a location that had better visibility to the community and was easier to find.  The move brought us to The Good Shepherd Luthern Church, at 4503 Old William Penn Highway in Monroeville just blocks from the other location.  We were then located in the parish rectory building in front of the church, which is both bright, and highly visible from the surrounding streets.

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In 2026, with the pending sale of the Good Shepherd Lutheran property we moved to 6th Presbyterian in Squirrel Hill.  

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