Gentle Spirit Christian Church
No Rules, Just God.
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About Us
An independent, affirming and progressive church serving metro Atlanta. We are open, positive and inclusive. We meet on Sundays at 10:30am as the Church Without Walls in Candler Park, Picnic Pavilion 2.
Our Services
Service Times
- Sunday
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- 10:30am
- The Church Without Walls in Candler Park
What to Expect
Leadership
Rev. Paul M. Turner
Senior Pastor
A native midwesterner who was raised in the United Methodist Church, Rev. Turner has felt a call to pastoral ministry since early childhood. He founded Gentle Spirit Christian Church in 1998 after serving as clergy in the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches in Ohio and Atlanta.
Since his arrival in Atlanta in 1994, he has been at the forefront of leadership and activism for the LGBTQ+ community and the community at large, volunteering for and serving on the boards of organizations focused on civic engagement, transgender identity, homelessness, hunger, unemployment, health services and mental health.
Rev. Turner serves as Editor-in-Chief of Whosoever and is a longtime umpire in the Amateur Softball Association of America, where he has called both slow- and fast-pitch softball games in several divisions and has served as board president for the Southern Crescent Umpires Association.
He and his husband, Bill, celebrated their 39th anniversary in June 2021, the same month that the Supreme Court made marriage equality the law of the land, and they legally tied the knot on November 21, 2015.
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