Reconciling In Christ Congregation:  After several years of educational programs about human sexuality issues, offered in a variety of forms--culminating in a six week series coordinated by Pastor Page and Merle Longwood within the Adult Forum, we examined how the congregation might best continue to explore appropriate ways in which to understand and respond to persons within our communities who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or trans-gendered, and families and others closely related to them.  The congregation affirmed its commitment to full acceptance of persons without regard to sexual orientation by making a decision to become a Reconciling in Christ Congregation (RIC).

A Motion was passed at the 2002 Congregational Annual Meeting to direct the Congregational Council to develop a plan to enable the congregation to make a decision about becoming a Reconciling in Christ Congregation.  The Congregational Council arranged opportunities for members of the congregation to discuss the implications of this decision, concluding with a Sunday after-worship pot-luck lunch and discussion leading to a congregational vote in April 2000, in which the congregation voted overwhelmingly (with only two nay votes) to become a Reconciling in Christ Congregation--the first congregation in the Upstate New York Synod to make this commitment.