Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church
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Christian started attending the Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church, Charlottesville in March 2008 after getting kicked out of his old church, the Grace Baptist Church. He was baptised at WMUMC on Mother's Day of 2008.[1]
WFMC is closely associated with the University of Virginia. Ironically, given his intense homophobia, Chris attends a homo-accepting church because it is the only one that won't kick him out. Having been besieged with nudes of Chris, they now have this disclaimer on their homepage: "We are not responsible for any content or links that may appear on the personal web pages of any member of this congregation."
Bob attended with his son, with Barbara usually staying home.[2]
People
- Reverend Ed Winkler, current pastor
- Reverend Elizabeth Foss, former pastor
- Marty Peterman, who told Chris to not send anything over the internet he wouldn't want his grandmother to see[3]
- Reverend Rocky Shoemaker, pastoral counselor; Elizabeth introduced Rocky to Chris in September 2008 because she knows Chris doesn't listen to men[3]
Since Elizabeth and Rocky are authority figures Chris respects, he lists them as references on his resume and continually seeks help from them against trolls.[4]
Events
On 15 March 2009, Robert Simmons V visited this church and talked to Chris and Bob.
On July 2011 Ed Winkler became a pastor at the church.[5] He would later on ban Chris from the church for an entire month, and would also forbid Chris from speaking there. Winkler's treatment of Chris was one of the factors that led the latter to withdraw from the church for an unknown period of time.[6]
On 12 September 2011, Bob's funeral took place at the church.
On 10 June 2012, Chris ran a lemonade stand for a cancer charity.
Sources
- ↑ http://www.sonichu.com/cwcki/Regina_e-mails#Regina_tries_to_make_sense_of_all_that
- ↑ Church audio#00:06:27 - A Wild Chris-Chan Appears
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chris emails 2008#September
- ↑ Chris emails 2008#September, Jackie E-mails 5#Chris's brilliant ideas, Jackie E-mails 7 (August 4), Jackie E-mails 8, Jackie E-mails 22 (November 16)
- ↑ Ed Winkler's profile at LinkedIn
- ↑ Epistle to the Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church
See also
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