COLAGE is looking for youth with LGBTQ parents, especially aged 13 and up, to participate in a national action in 2008 called the American Family Outing sponsored by Soulforce in collaboration with COLAGE, the National Black Justice Coalition, and the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches.

The action will take place in Texas, Georgia, Maryland, Illinois, and California during the weekends between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, 2008. COLAGErs and their families will ask to meet with these leaders and their congregations with the goal of changing hearts and minds in some of the most influential churches in the nation.Youth with LGBT parents who participate with their families will receive support, training, and skills for making change through COLAGE’s Speak OUT program.

The American Family Outing will reach out to the leaders of 6 of America’s most influential mega-churches, including Joel Osteen, T.D. Jakes, and Rick Warren.

This project involves a brief time commitment with a potentially huge impact. In each city visited, the group will educate thousands of citizens through media coverage of queerspawn and their families.

You can download an information packet and an application from the Soulforce website. Applications are due by January 15, 2008. All participants must be able to attend a training in Austin, TX the weekend of February 22-24, 2008.