Our Mission

God’s transformational love compels us to offer our lives back to God, committing ourselves to serve Him faithfully. As disciples, we partner with the Holy Spirit in mission and service to the world. We strive to be a people who will love the Lord with all of our heart, mind, soul and strength and love others with a passionate commitment to bring hope and healing in the world.  

OUR VALUES

The Holy Spirit is essential to fulfill the Great Commission. (Matthew 28:18-20, 10:7-8; 2 Peter 1:3-4; Acts 1:8)

Beliefs

Prevenient Grace

Grace is God’s active presence in our lives. This presence is not dependent on human actions or human response. It is a gift — a gift that is always available, but can be refused.

God’s grace stirs up within us a desire to know God and empowers us to respond to God’s invitation to be in relationship with God. God’s grace enables us to discern differences between good and evil and makes it possible for us to choose good….

God takes the initiative in relating to humanity. We do not have to beg and plead for God’s love and grace. God actively seeks us!

Justifying Grace

Paul wrote to the church in Corinth:

“In Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them” (2 Corinthians 5:19). And in his letter to the Roman Christians, Paul wrote: “But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).

These verses demonstrate the justifying grace of God. They point to reconciliation, pardon, and restoration. Through the work of God in Christ our sins are forgiven, and our relationship with God is restored. The image of God — which has been distorted by sin — is renewed within us through Christ’s death.

Again, this dimension of God’s grace is a gift. God’s grace alone brings us into relationship with God. There are no hoops through which we have to jump in order to please God and to be loved by God. God has acted in Jesus Christ. We need only to respond in faith.

Saving Grace

This process of salvation involves a change in us that we call conversion. Conversion is a turning around, leaving one orientation for another. It may be sudden and dramatic, or gradual and cumulative. But in any case, it’s a new beginning. Following Jesus’ words to Nicodemus, “You must be born anew” (John 3:7 RSV), we speak of this conversion as rebirth, new life in Christ, or regeneration.

Justification is what happens when Christians abandon all those vain attempts to justify themselves before God, to be seen as “just” in God’s eyes through religious and moral practices. It’s a time when God’s “justifying grace” is experienced and accepted, a time of pardon and forgiveness, of new peace and joy and love. Indeed, we’re justified by God’s grace through faith.

Justification is also a time of repentance — turning away from behaviors rooted in sin and toward actions that express God’s love. In this conversion we can expect to receive assurance of our present salvation through the Holy Spirit

“bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God” (Romans 8:16).

Sanctifying Grace

Salvation is not a static, one-time event in our lives. It is the ongoing experience of God’s gracious presence transforming us into whom God intends us to be.

Through God’s sanctifying grace, we grow and mature in our ability to live as Jesus lived. As we pray, study the Scriptures, fast, worship, and share in fellowship with other Christians, we deepen our knowledge of and love for God. As we respond with compassion to human need and work for justice in our communities, we strengthen our capacity to love neighbor. Our inner thoughts and motives, as well as our outer actions and behavior, are aligned with God’s will and testify to our union with God.

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That every follower of Jesus will grow through experiencing the power of the Holy Spirit.

The power and gifts of the Holy Spirit are essential in the life of a Christian as the the Gospel is proclaimed and the ministry of Jesus fulfilled in the world.

Envision every local church impacting their world where God has uniquely placed them, proclaiming and demonstrating the gospel in the character and in the power of Jesus Christ. And if that is too impossible to consider, imagine if every one of the more than 32,000 United Methodist Churches in the United States were, in word and in deed, proclaiming and demonstrating the gospel – carrying on the ministry of Jesus!