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Dear Friend,
PIE Day is upon us! Our National Affirming Day is a day to celebrate the milestones we have made in affirming the 2SLGBTQIAP+ community, and to inspire the work to continue with full hearts and hands to the task.
This year’s PIE Day theme is Crafting Community. PIE Day is about Publicly, Intentionally and Explicitly affirming the Queer Community as a sacred part of God’s image in creation, and as an integral and celebrated part of the Body of Christ on Earth. Crafting Community acknowledges that affirming ministry is inspired by creativity, and by how we are in relationship with God, with our church family, and with the wider community and world. Affirming Ministry bears deep and faithful witness to this, knowing that many life experiences and oppressions intersect; knowing we are intricate and beloved children of God, and that we are very rarely “just one thing”.
Take this opportunity this weekend to dive into an expansive and inclusive way of being with God and with one another – seek to lift one another up, and always reach back for those who are still arriving.
Visiting the Official PIE Day website, you will find many tools, ideas, resources and materials to celebrate PIE, and a calendar of PIE Day events happening across the country.
PMR Queer Worship is holding a special live-streamed PIE Day Worship on Sunday, March 15th, at 2:00 pm Pacific Time. We hope to see you there and to celebrate with you.
You will find worship details and livestream details below, and in the Crafting Community announcement, we are happy to share with you a new PMR Affirming Ministries PIE Day worship outline. Affirming Ministry is for the whole church, invite one another in.
In solidarity,
Kendra Mitchell-Foster
Regional Minister: Justice, Pacific Mountain Regional Council
KMitchellFoster@united-church.ca
1-800-934-0434 (within BC) or +1-604-431-0434
Lheidli T’enneh Territory
Prince George, BC
PacificMountain.ca/Justice-Network
Crafting Community for PIE
Celebrate National Affirming/PIE Day
March 14, 2026!
Why PIE? PIE = Public. Intentional. Explicit. Those are the standards we hold ourselves to and expect when we seek to live into being fully Affirming, Welcoming, and Inclusive people and communities.
Last year, Affirming Connections held their first-ever PIE Day Song Contest offered a joyful example of being Public, Intentional, and Explicit, and its songs continue to inspire worship and spark conversation across the country.
This year’s PIE Day theme, Crafting Community, takes creativity beyond music – celebrating woodworkers, crocheters, painters, gardeners, bakers, and all who create beauty and nurture connection.
More 2026 resources, worship service templates, and learning events to come. In the meantime, visit the Affirming Connections Materials page and start dreaming!
Pacific Mountain Affirming Ministries has developed a new worship outline for PIE Day
PIE Day Queer Worship
Join us for our annual regional celebration of PIE Day!
This special PIE Day Queer Worship centres the experience of the 2SLGBTQIAP+ community, and celebrates the sacred found in queer lives, queer joy and queer liberation.
This service is made for the 2SLGBTQIAP+ community and our allies, it is made and offered by queer folks, and it is made to nourish queer spirituality in all of us.
In Person at:
Trinity United Church
3555 5th Ave, Prince George, BC
Website Live-Stream
Facebook Live-Stream
PIE Month Series – Queer Theology
Bad theology hurts.
It hurts the 2SLGBTQIAP+ community, it hurts our communities of faith, and it hurts folks who feel held down under the thumb of harmful language, tradition, and belief.
Join us for this three-week series inviting us all into a process of deconstructing the theologies that restrict us as we seek to expand our affirming ministry and as we live out faithful discipleship that celebrates diversity as sacred. We will learn together with Jaye Brix (they/she), an ex-pastor who uses their experience, education and creativity to help folks on their liberation journey, leaving behind church that hurts.
Exploring short-format teachings and longer-form documentary videos from Jaye Brix as tools to cracking open oppressive interpretation of scripture and religious culture. Exploring the roots of Queer Theology as a liberation theology for all, not just the 2SLGBTQIAP+ community. Jaye will join us for one of our sessions for conversation, and sharing insights of their work as it evolves
Queer & Faithful Cinema
PIE to Pride season is full of ways to engage your community and dive into Queer Theology. Join us for four monthly film screenings, each film featuring real life stories of people who have navigated queerness in the context of church, community and family. A discussion will follow each film that will touch on elements of Queer Theology and Liberating Theology to support the expansion of our own experiences and to support the authentic exploration and articulation of our own faith.
**Disclaimer** As documentaries, these films may contain occasional language profanity
Register here:
May 15 Registration – “Proper Pronouns” follows four transgender ministers in North Carolina as they fight intolerance and discrimination in the Bible Belt and battle narrow-mindedness within the religious community, fellow state natives, and their families.
June 26 Registration – At General Council 42 the church voted to have a national project of story-sharing and dialogue with people affected by the Church’s 1988 decision. These stories would then help the church to discern if, and how, it might live into an apology to the church’s LGBTQ and Two-Spirit people. “The Iridesce Theatre Presentation” is a play in three acts. All the words of the script have emerged from the Iridesce Project, and are the memories and words of Iridesce participants.
July 17 Registration – “Wonderfully Made — LGBTQ+R(eligion)” is a combined fine art project and feature-length documentary that together strike at the root of anti-LGBTQ+ attitudes by exploring the challenges and aspirations of LGBTQ+ Catholics. The message, however, applies to any religious tradition that does not fully embrace our LGBTQ+ brothers and sisters.
August 7 Registration – “A Queer’s Guide to Spiritual Living” Blending zine-inspired animation, spoken word, and poetry with insightful interview footage, this lo-fi documentary collage follows four queer people from different religious backgrounds as they explore the intersections of faith and queerness.