The following historical information was included in Glide Memorial Church’s Historic Building Application.  You can read more about our building and find the footnotes for this document here.

• Lizzie Glide
• Development of the Glide Foundation
• Construction of the Glide Memorial Evangelistic Center
• Early Church History
• A Church in Transition (1949-1961)
• The New Glide Memorial Church (1962-1989)
• Reverend. Lewis Durham, Reverend Ted McIlvenna and the Glide Urban Center
• Reverend A. Cecil Williams
•  Rev. Cecil Williams Arrives at Glide
• Glide’s “Co-Founders:” Cecil Williams and Janice Mirikitani
• Significant Programs Sponsored, Funded and/or Hosted by Glide
• Council on Religion and the Homosexual
• Citizen’s Alert
• Vanguard
• Huckelberry’s for Runaways
• National Sex Forum
• Black Man’s Free Store
• Rev. Lloyd Wake and Asian and Pacific Islander (API) Organizing
• Committee United for Political Prisoners
• Programs on Drug Addiction and Recovery