Bishop Alex Byrd, left, and Pastor Marvin Roberts at the pulpit of Living Faith Covenant Church. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice) The LGBTQ-affirming Pentecostal church affirms the faith and the humanity of its members DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com Living Faith Covenant Church is celebrating its 21st birthday in August.
It is a church that seems like a contradiction — a fully-inclusive Pentecostal church that’s affirming and Afro-centric. And even Bishop Alex Byrd acknowledged, “It goes against the grain of what my denomination taught.” Several years ago, the church purchased its current building at 3403 Shelley Blvd., off Westmoreland Street in Oak Cliff.