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The Gospel Project
 

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✨🎭 The Gospel Project
A monthly gathering where faith, art, and sacred storytelling come together in meaningful conversation.

🍞🍷 Each evening begins with a free communion meal at 6:00pm, grounding the night in shared table and shared grace before moving into worship and performance.

🎭🎶🎨 Professional actors, dancers, singers, and artists of all kinds collaborate to explore scripture, justice, identity, and the human experience through the sacred power of storytelling.

🎤🌎 Each gathering also features powerful guest speakers from around the country, offering voices that challenge, inspire, and open new ways of seeing.

🕊️📖 If God is still speaking to a 2026 audience,

The Gospel Project makes room for that voice to dwell — in art, in story, in silence, and in community.

🌈🤝 Come curious. Come hungry. Come ready to listen.

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Dinner at 6:00pm Free
Plumer Hall
Please RSVP


Service at 7:30pm
Sanctuary
Irvine United Congregational Church
 

Queer Bodies & Sacred Texts:

 

From Makeup to Mystery

The Gospel Project launches with its pilot gathering on January 31st with an embodied, artistic, and inclusive worship experience rooted in community and truth-seeking. Acting, music, dance, and spoken testimony combine and invite us to come as our truest selves into community before God. Featuring worship with the Reverend James Fouther,

an experience of movement by the Fuse Dance Company, song and spoken word by guest artists Oscar Aguilar and Salem Strikes, a staged scene from the play Rotterdam that explores the authentic transgender experience,

a testimonial by Johnny Eberhardt as drag queen Cucu Chanel, and a powerful yet challenging preaching message by our own Pastor Craig Tyrl, the evening weaves multiple artistic voices into a shared sacred encounter.

This is not a performance to watch, but a community to join, listening for what our God yet speaks, and shaping Creation through faithful, affirming worship.

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