On Saturday, February 11th from 8PM to Midnight at the Sayville VFW, come and join us as Long Island Community Fellowship hosts its Red Velvet Dinner Dance.

There will be a buffet dinner, dessert and coffee, cash bar, a 50/50 raffle and a fabulous silent auction, and of course great company that will make this a night to remember. So grab your sweetheart or ask that “someone special” and head over to the VFW Hall in Sayville to dance the night away! There will also be a “Special GUEST Performer!” (We cannot tell you who it is…you must GUESS!).

Tickets are $25 per person, send a check made payable to LICF and mail to:

For more information contact Eddie at Eddie@licf.net.

PARIAH

Adepero Oduye portrays Alike (pronounced ah-lee-kay), a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents and younger sister in Brooklyn.  Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. With the sometimes boisterous support of her best friend, out lesbian Laura (Pernell Walker), Alike is especially eager to find a girlfriend. At home, her parents’ marriage is strained and there is further tension in the household whenever Alike’s development becomes a topic of discussion. Pressed by her mother into making the acquaintance of a colleague’s daughter, Bina (Aasha Davis), Alike finds Bina to be unexpectedly refreshing to socialize with. Wondering how much she can confide in her family, Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and tenacity – sometimes succeeding, sometimes not, but always moving forward.

Pariah premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival   and was awarded the Excellence in Cinematography Award. In his New York Times article, film critic A.O. Scott wrote that to watch Adepero Oduye play Alike “is to experience the thrill of discovery.” Scott continued by saying that “Pariah has a point to make, and a point of view to argue, but it also, above all, wants to illuminate an individual universe of meaning and emotion.” Adepero Oduye was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead

In acknowledgement of heart month and in honor of Pastor Shane who passed away of a heart attack, everyone attending Worship service is asked to wear red!

In 2002, Rev. Dr. G. Shane Hibbs came to Long Island with a dream. He envisioned a church on Long Island that would embrace everyone—Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, as well as the Straight Allies of the Community. In February of that year, a small group of people, with Pastor Shane as their spiritual guide, had the first service of Long Island Community Fellowship in a tiny office space.

What a difference ten years can make! Since 2006, LICF has been serving the GLBT Community from our church in Bay Shore and we have grown! From that initial handful of worshipers, Long Island Community Fellowship now has more and more people attending services each week. Pastor Shane’s vision has clearly grown. Now, his vision has become our mission….

As always the evening promises to be filled with Fun and Fellowship don’t miss it!

If interested in signing up please contact Sandra at Sandra@licf.net.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Long Island Community Fellowship will host a Transgender Rights Advocacy Meeting at 7:00pm in our Fellowship Room. Long Island Community Fellowship is committed towards working to ensure all people are treated with respect regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity or any other classification..

Campaign for Transgender Civil Rights

GENDA is a bill that adds the category of “gender identity and expression” to the already existing New York State human rights laws. Current law makes it illegal in New York State to discriminate on the basis of age, race, creed, national origin, sexual orientation, sex and other categories in the areas of employment, housing, public accommodations, education and credit. This act would extend current law to ban discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression as well. Similarly, it would add gender identity and expression to these same categories already included in New York’s hate crimes law.

Please join us at 10:00am Sunday 29, 2012 as we celebrate our youth….

Reverend Gale D Jones was elected as Interim Pastor for Long Island Community Fellowship on October 9, 2011 and officialy installed on November 12, 2011

All members of LICF are invited to participate in this event as well. We will be serving light refreshments

On Sunday, November 20th the beautiful Zion Reformed Temple of Bay Shore opened its doors wide to the LGBT community to Celebrate the lives, realize the tragedies and mourn the loss of 20 brave human beings.

Their lives were cut short (sometimes brutally) right here in America and across the globe in the last year, simply because their bodies developed in a way contradictory to their beings.

The choir delivered the message that we should look to God for answers to the hate, receive strength to survive, and understanding of and for the victims.  We were proud to represent Our GOD, and “our church”.

We appreciate the honor and opportunity to witness afforded us by the Long Island TDOR Committee.

We also proudly stood beside our sister Barbara, (and our brother Jeff) to support them in this cause that means so much to us.  We applaud the hard work Barbara and the entire Long Island TDOR committee did to make this the important and meaningful service it was.

Rev. Gale was officially installed as Interim Pastor on Saturday, November 12, 2011. She is very enthused about not only ministering to the members of LICF but also working with the entire Long Island GLBT Community.

Christmas Eve:  Join the LICF Gospel Choir on December 24th at 11pm for Singing of the Carols.  A special concert celebrating the coming of Christmas Day.

Christmas Day Service: You are welcome to celebrate Christmas Day with the LICF Family at 10am.  This special service will be a traditional service of celebration.

Don’t miss your opportunity to make the reason for the season to come alive in you!