His wife is a doctor on Skid Row in Los Angeles, and they have two teenaged kids. The church that Bill helps pastor, City Church of Long Beach, officially launched in 2014. The leadership of City Church formed a Study Team in early 2016 in order to look at issues surrounding participation of LGBTQ persons in the church. The Study Team has been meeting monthly to work through a syllabus of material that covers a range of topics from different Christian perspectives. This article was originally posted on Bill’s blog at LGBTQConversations.