Universal Rainbow Faith: Building Expansion Fund Appeal

Universal Rainbow Faith: Building Expansion Fund Appeal

Creating Sacred Space for a Global Movement of Healing, Justice, and Inclusion

From the beginning of time, queer and transgender people have walked this Earth as sacred beings, vessels of divine creativity and truth. We were spiritual leaders in ancient cultures. Shamans. Priests. Healers. Yet history shows a long, devastating arc of erasure, violence, and oppression against us.

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The Lavender Scare. The AIDS crisis. Stonewall. The mass imprisonment, executions, and murders of LGBTQIA+ people across the globe. The Holocaust that erased queer lives alongside others. The epidemic of suicides among trans and non-binary teens bullied into silence. The fear, isolation, and hate crimes still unfolding daily in the United States and abroad. Forced conversion therapies. Bans on gender-affirming care. Legislation that strips our rights, dehumanizes our identities, and targets our youth.

This is not just discrimination. It is spiritual violence.

Universal Rainbow Faith (URF) was born as a response. A divine answer. A sacred call. A spiritual uprising of hope.

Founded on February 2, 2025, URF is not just a church. It is a lifeline for LGBTQIA+ people seeking healing, affirmation, and sanctuary. It is a movement of inclusive faith grounded in love, justice, and freedom.

And now we are growing.

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With your help, we will build the next chapter of this vision: a permanent headquarters and expanded sacred campus in Las Vegas, Nevada. This facility will serve as:

• A house of worship for virtual and in-person services

• A sanctuary for queer youth needing community, care, and spiritual protection

• An ordination and spiritual training center for inclusive clergy worldwide

• A sacred events center for weddings, naming ceremonies, grief rituals, and healing gatherings

 

This expansion matters now more than ever.

As our rights are being stripped, URF is planting spiritual roots. As LGBTQIA+ people face exile from their own faith communities, we are building a home.

Our Expansion Projects Include:

1. Main Sanctuary Construction & Design – A beautiful, inclusive sacred space equipped for hybrid worship, concerts, memorials, and spiritual gatherings.

2. The Healing & Learning Center – Rooms for mental health, pastoral care, recovery meetings, and workshops.

3. Rainbow Youth & Family Center – A safe, affirming space for youth and parents to receive resources, guidance, and spiritual support.

 

This is where you come in.

Every dollar matters. A $1 gift tells the world you believe in this movement. A $25 gift covers livestream costs for one week. A $100 donation helps fund outreach to someone in crisis.

But to build this vision, we also call on Angel Donors — those who can offer $1,000,000 or more to create a spiritual legacy.

We welcome Founding Donors to name sacred spaces, sponsor sanctuaries, and build a lasting legacy of liberation.

 

We are seeking support for the following major areas of growth:

🌟 URF Building Expansion Fund – To create a physical sanctuary and headquarters in Las Vegas and beyond. We envision spaces of worship, education, support groups, drag performances, queer art shows, and recovery meetings.

🌍 URF Global Ministries Fund – For international outreach and the creation of URF chapters worldwide. Our message must cross oceans. Our faith must reach those in countries where being LGBTQIA+ is punishable by prison or death.

🕊️ URF Sustaining Trust Fund – To ensure the long-term survival and independence of URF through interest-generating capital. This fund will support operations, leadership training, crisis response, and ministry work for generations.

💼 Trans Employment & Empowerment Projects – Offering jobs, workshops, and microgrants to trans and queer individuals in need, helping them become financially secure and spiritually fulfilled.

🏡 Recovery Ranch & Life Reset Programs – Developing URF-affiliated housing, healing, and vocational programs for trans and LGBTQIA+ individuals recovering from addiction, trauma, or homelessness.

🎭 Arts, Drag & LGBTQ+ Cultural Development – Supporting trans and drag artists and performers to lead the cultural renaissance in Las Vegas and beyond through sacred storytelling, music, and celebration.

Together, these projects represent a full-spectrum commitment to the healing, empowerment, and liberation of LGBTQIA+ people.

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You can trust Universal Rainbow Faith. I am Rev. Paula Sadler, the Founding Minister. My decades of advocacy include:

• 30 years of activism in LGBTQ+ rights and healing arts

• A founder and business leader in Las Vegas since 2002

• Spiritual mentor and speaker since 1995

• Organizer of peace and racial unity through music and the arts (Peace Child International, 1992)

• Advocate for international human rights since high school, writing letters for Amnesty International to free prisoners of conscience 

 

I have lived this work. And I give my life to it now.

This is not a moment. This is a movement.

The world needs URF. And URF needs you.

Let’s build this sanctuary together — for the queer child in Texas, the trans elder in Uganda, the non-binary teen in your own community. For the ancestors who were silenced. And for the generations to come.

Join us. Invest in healing. Build the vision.

Donate now to the URF Building Expansion Fund. www.universalrainbowfaith.org/building-expansion

With all my heart,

 

Rev. Paula Josephine Sadler
Founding Minister, Universal Rainbow Faith