This is where pastoral care for trans people, disabled people, and anyone shut out of a church actually happens. You can ask for a conversation, a group, prayer, or emergency numbers. Nothing here has a fee, and nothing here requires you to believe anything in particular.
One conversation at a time, by message or voice. The Ordinary answers these personally.
Write to the Chancery → IIFor people told to leave, and for people who worked out that staying was not survivable.
Come back in → IIIDeaths, and every loss the world declines to count. Grief here is never ranked or scheduled.
Bring the loss → IVPrivate by default, read by the Ordinary only. You may ask without believing in prayer.
Send a request → VReligious trauma, deconstruction, grief with a faith dimension, the exiled. Enrolment is open.
Enrol → VINumbers that answer now, and what to do in the next ten minutes. Help first, prayer second.
Get help now →On confidence
What you share is held in confidence within the limits of the law. No name reaches a prayer list, ever, unless you ask for that in writing.
On sharing
Nothing is passed between Bloom programs without your explicit consent. Asking the church for prayer does not put you in a grant file, a mailing list, or a case note somewhere else.
On the limits
Oregon clergy are mandatory reporters of child abuse under ORS 419B.010, and the clergy-penitent privilege at ORS 40.260 is narrow. The Oregon Child Abuse Hotline is 855-503-SAFE (855-503-7233), and that duty is not dispensable, even by the Ordinary.
The groups on this site are the ones with a faith dimension — religious trauma, deconstruction, exile. The general community groups are different: trans peer support, caregivers, disability. Those live on the main Bloom site, deliberately, so that someone who is done with churches can reach a room full of people without going through one.
If that is you, go straight there. Nobody will ask you why you skipped this page, and no one from those groups reports back to the Chancery.
Use the form on any support page. Bad grammar, no context, and one line at 3am are all fine.
Tell us whether email is safe, whether a name may be used, and whether anyone else reads your messages. That instruction is followed exactly.
Followed without exceptionThe Ordinary answers these personally. If it has been longer than that, the message did not arrive — send it again.
A conversation, a referral, a group, prayer, or nothing further. You are never obligated to a second exchange.
If you cannot tell which of the six fits, write to the Chancery and say so. Sorting it out is the work, not a prerequisite for it.
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If you are in danger tonight, these answer faster than we can, at any hour. Nothing on this page is more important than the four numbers below.