About this Site
BlogOfHope.Com is a personal ministry project of Rev David Pettitt to New Hope Christian Center.
About Rev David Pettitt
"My friend, Rev. David Pettitt, is the founding pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church of Monterrey, Mexico. The church under his leadership has experienced phenomenal growth and brought national attention to the spiritual life and ministry of GLBT people in Mexico."
Rev Dr Rembert Truluck
Author of "Steps To Recovery From Bible Abuse"
(Chi Rho Press, 1997).
"On January 1st 1998, David Pettitt arrived in the city of Monterrey [Nuevo León, México]. He had come from Houston in order to facilitate the founding of the Metropolitan Community Church. On January 9, that same year, MCC of Monterrey had its first worship service in the living-room of an apartment. It was attended by 40 people. The need for a space for prayer was clear for the lesbian-gay-bisexual and transgender community in this city. In February 1998, a house was rented at 227 Diego de Montemayor south, in downtown Monterrey. It had seven rooms and two bathrooms. When Mr. Pettitt came from the U.S. he would stay there. This allowed him to tend for persons who came at all hours, asking for help. Soon, a board of directors was put together and many daily activities began."
Patricia Uribe Zúñiga and Carlos Magis Rodríguez
From "Best Practice: The Mexican Response to AIDS"
(The Mexican Health Secretariat and The National Council for AIDS Prevention and Control, 2000).
"One time a group of men and women from the Metropolitan Community Church of Monterrey were in town. Their pastor David Pettitt had heard me talk so much about the cloistered nuns in the Carmel of Cuernavaca`[Morelos, México] that he wanted to get to know them, too. We decided to go up one Monday morning, and his parishioners traveling with him asked if they could come along.
It was all done on a whim, seemingly. Yet by the end of the day we knew it had been the Holy Spirit guiding. We started with the Eucharist in which I talked about the problem of homophobia within the Church. Afterwards we visited in the parlor with the nuns.
I thought it would be a half hour of pleasantries. The visit ended up lasting two hours, and it was anything but undemanding chitchat. The dialogue was so intense that we never even got to eat the cookies our sisters served. Each man and woman from the Metropolitan Church gave a personal testimony of the struggles they had had to go through when they realized that they were gay, and after that, a word about how Jesus had brought them through it. Some of the nuns sat there with tears in their eyes. The goodness of these men and women moved them deeply. Now they understood why I get so angry at the Church’s homophobia.
As the people on our side of the grill shared their stories, the sisters also started to spontaneously share their own. They revealed things about themselves which they had never told their own sisters before. They said to me later that they would never be the same after this visit. The people from Monterrey had come out of curiosity. They ended up in a powerful ministry."
Gerald B. Cleator, O.P.
From his book "Who Could Have Know?
(45 Years As A Friar Preacher – An Examination of Conscience)
[Copyright © Gerard B. Cleator 2007]
Read the e-Book version of "Who Could Have Know?"
Rev David Pettitt’s Ordination Ceremony
Rev David Pettitt’s Ordination Certificate 
