Where We Started

Chicago, IL — It began in 2011 at a meeting in Tucson, where the national Coordinating Team of the Church Within A Church Movement (CWACM) looked for a way to share the message that God is Love, not hate.

A year later, a video legacy project was launched at the Church Within A Church Movement's 10th anniversary celebration, and 30 stories were shared each day in Pride month, 2013. The project, titled "My God is not a Bully!," is a collaboration between Chicago's E3 Radio innovator, Anna DeShawn, and the CWAC Movement.

The Church Within A Church Movement's executive director at the time, cathy knight, said of the project:

"What began as an urgent need to offer words of hope, is now a full-bodied message of love. CWACM wants LGBTQ youth to know there is another side to the story.

A wonderfully diverse cross-section of people from around the country jumped at the chance to tell the story that God loves them and however you define Spirit, in all traditions, God is Love, not a bully."