31. Stephanie Martin has been a guest singer at the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto ( MCC Toronto ). 32. The Metropolitan Community Churches estimates that 5, 000 members of the denomination have died of AIDS since 1982. 33. The Metropolitan Community Church was founded by Troy Perry, a minister defrocked by his Pentecostal church for homosexuality. 34. Since January 2000, Forsythe has been minister of Metropolitan Community Church of the Black Hills in Rapid City. 35. Wilson is the second person, and the first woman, to serve as Moderator of Metropolitan Community Churches. 36. Also registered for marriages until 2000 on the same road was the Whosoever Metropolitan Community Church and Worship Centre. 37. Fox later worshiped at Open Arms Metropolitan Community Church, which welcomed members of the gay and lesbian community. 38. Roughly half of the hundreds of New York couples united in Metropolitan Community Church ceremonies raise children, Bumgardner says. 39. Club members have participated in an AIDS walk and done volunteer work with Agape Metropolitan Community Church in Fort Worth. 40. The Metropolitan Community Church ordained women chaplains, partly because some of its ministers died of AIDS, Tan said.
