has continued to advocate for LGBTQ issues including a call for sensitivity training in Jamaica following many attacks and several murders of lesbians and gays. MCC East London MCC East London is located in Stepney. MCC East London started as a project of MCC North London, "a parish extension group was established with the objective to form a church". MCC East London held its first service on Pentecost Sunday in 1991. In August 2010 Reverend Caroline Redfearn, a regular preacher for and active member of MCC East London, died from a cancer-related illness. In November 2004 she was the first African-Caribbean descent woman to be ordained at MCC in the United Kingdom. MCC South London MCC South London was in Balham until its closure in 2015. Reverend Elder Jean White (1941-2010) was the longest serving non-American Pastor within MCC and the first non-American elected to the denomination's Board of Elders and began MCC in the UK. Having pastored the original MCC London for many years and having worked as the Director of World Church Extension of the denomination, she pastored MCC South London. The group is a member of The Surrey and London Association of Gay Organisations. In 2009 all three churches marched together as part of London's pride parade. See also LGBT-welcoming church programs Christianity and homosexuality Notes Sources American Baptist Historical Society, Foundations, Volume 20, American Baptist Historical Society, 1977. Gooch, Brad, Godtalk: travels in spiritual America, A.A. Knopf, 2002, , . Walton, Tony, Out of the Shadows, 2010. Bona Street Press, . Wilcox, Melissa M., Coming out in Christianity: religion, identity, and community, Indiana University Press, 2003, , . External links MCC East London MCC North London MCC South London Metropolitan Community Churches LGBT churches in England LGBT culture in London