Need help getting started? These handy downloads are designed to help you get started with a few simple activities to bring your community together, proclaim your commitment to full inclusion and even rest when the work is done! Read below to learn more:

Tell your Believe Out Loud Story

Stories are the heart of all reconciling work. By sharing our personal narratives, we make connections, learn more about one another, teach morality, and express our deepest held values and faith. Use this kit to learn what questions a story answers, tips for more powerful stories, and basic instructions for presenting and sharing your story with the world.

Plan a House Gathering

This toolkit offers discussion starters, logistical considerations and other hints for a success small group discussion of stories and passions. An excellent resources for moderate groups and teams preparing a reconciling process, this toolkit was first developed in 2010 for the Believe Out Loud Campaign.

Host a Reconciling Table

So many Reconciling people are proudly Believing Out Loud that United Methodist events feel incomplete without a rainbow colored table full of resources for full inclusion. Use this sheet to prepare for an event, find the right resources to offer set up a table and confidently share your faith in God’s perfect welcome with participants at Annual Conference, convention or other event.

Hold a RUM Drive

A great first activity for your church or community group, this kit gives instructions for planning a community-wide forum for relationship building discussions of LGBTQ inclusion. Includes “telling your story” handout and information on additional reconciling resources.

Restore Your Soul

When you’re tired, weary, hurt or angry, turn to God to recharge your batteries and remember that the hurtful words of people or churches do not affect God’s perfect love for you. This toolkit is designed to help lead you through a time of rest, prayer and release as you return to the center of all our hopes.

Reconciling Sunday

Reconciling Sundays are an annual celebration of a community’s commitment to full inclusion of all sexual orientations and gender identities. RMN does not set a prescribed date for Reconciling Sunday; some communities commemorate the anniversary of their vote to become Reconciling; others mark Human Relations Sunday (Third Sunday in January) or a Sunday in June to highlight Pride festivities.