Reverend Jim McManus, a pastoral team member of MCC Newcastle, Reverend Roy Beaney, European District Coordinator, and other MCC members visited Edinburgh and organised a stall at the festival, followed by a small worship service in the LGBT Centre in Broughton Street.
An article appeared in The Scotsman and Michelle Russell was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland.
On 2 August 1995, during the MCC General Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, an Interim Development Group was formed, with McManus appointed as Pastor.
The congregation adopted a constitution on 17 November 1995, establishing Holy Trinity Metropolitan Community Church, Edinburgh, as a parish extension of MCC Newcastle, with McManus elected pastor.
New leadership was appointed at the second annual congregational in April 1997, with the support of Reverend Doreen Shambrook representing the MCC European District.