Church
Service
• How would you define your service?
Our
Worship can best be described as a contemporary, upbeat, free
flowing, "Renewal" service. We invite you to join
us on Sundays @ 10:30am to experience the love and joy of worshipping
our Lord Jesus Christ with voice, instrument and dance.
• What
time does your service start?
Our
Sunday worship service begins @ 10:30am
• Why
must we enter our attendance in the red binder every week?
Each
year the Annual Conference asked for our "average" attendance.
We use the red-binder to keep this information current. If you
don't sign your name, then it depends on the memory of Ron or
the secretary. Your name might be left off and then the averages
are off. Please keep this in mind so we can have your record
of attendance each week. Thanks.
• Mission
What is the mission of the United Methodist Church?
Mission Statement
of the United Methodist Church
The mission of the United Methodist
Church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ by proclaiming
the good news of God's grace and thus seeking the fulfillment
of God's reign and realm in the world. The fulfillment of God's
reign and realm in the world is the vision Scripture holds
before us. The United Methodist Church affirms that Jesus Christ
is the Son of God, the Savior of the world, and the Lord of
all. We respect persons of all religious faiths and we defend
religious freedom for all persons. Jesus' words in Matthew
28:19-20 provide the Church with our mission: "Go therefore
and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name
of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching
them to obey everything that I have commanded you."
This mission is our grace-filled response to the Reign of God in the world
announced by Jesus. God's grace is active everywhere, at all times, carrying
out this purpose as revealed in the Bible. It is expressed in God's covenant
with Abraham and Sarah, in the Exodus of Israel from Egypt, and in the ministry
of the prophets. It is fully embodied in the life, death, and resurrection
of Jesus Christ. It is experienced in the ongoing creation of a new people
by the Holy Spirit.
John Wesley, Phillip Otterbein, Jacob Albright, and our other spiritual forebears
understood this mission in this way. Whenever United Methodism has had a clear
sense of mission, God has used our Church to save persons, heal relationships,
transform social structures, and spread scriptural holiness, thereby changing
the world. In order to be truly alive, we embrace Jesus' mandate to make disciples
of all peoples.
From "The
Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church 2000",
Part III, Section 1, Paragraph121