Message from Jesus

Have you found what you're looking for on this Website?

Do you know what you're are looking for?

Are you upset about a failed relationship?

Are you having job problems or financial concerns?

Is your health what you're wooried about right now?

Or are things basically fine, but there just seems to be something missing in your life. 

It's Me.  I'm that piece of yur life that you're missing.  You know you'll never be complete without me.

God loves you so much.  He coundn't stand to see you perish.  He knew you couldn't make yourself good enough to have a relationship with him, so I am the way for you to come to Him.  I paid the horrible price on the cross so you can have a relationship with the God of the universe!

I did it all, for you, except for one thing - I can't make the choice for you to receive this gift of life.  Only you can do that.  Won't you invite Me into your heart and your life?

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MISSION STATEMENT April 2008:  We have been called by God to live, proclaim, and teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ as we are led by the Holy Spirit.  We bring the message of salvation, provide for the nurturing of Christan disciples, and express a ministry of God's caring to the community and the world.

THE ROLE AND FUNCTION OF THE LOCAL CHURCH (taken from a brochure at the 2007 United Methodist Church Annual Conference)

The heart of our local church ministry is continuing-and extending-Jesus Christ's ministry of outreach and love.

Today, because of astonishing breakthroughs in communications technology, we literally can give witness to the world- living lovingly and justly as servants of Jesus Christ...spreading the good news....reaching, healing and caring for God's children everywhere.

We are part of the church universal.  All persons-regardless of race, color, national origin, social or economic status-are welcome to attend our services; to receive Holy Baptism and Holy Communion and to be admitted into membership in this connectional covenant, fulfilling our promise of open hearts, open minds, open doors.

Want to learn more about the role of the local church?  Go to www.umc.org

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THE ROLE AND FUNCTION OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE (Taken from a brochure at the 2007 Annual United Methodist Church Conference)

The General Conference is the primary legislative body of the United Methodist Church - the only body that speaks officially for the church.  Meeting once every four years to determine legislation affecting connectional matters; it is composed of no fewer than 600 and no more than 1,000 delegates.

General Conrerence-working within the boundries of the Church Constitution and General Rules-defines and fixes the conditions, privileges and duties of church membership, the powers and duties of elders, deacons, diaconal ministers and local pastors, and the powers and dutues of annual conferences, missionary conferences, charge conferences and congregational meetings.

It authorizes the organization, promotion, and administrative work of the church.  The General Conference also defines the powers and duties of the episcopacy, authorizes the official hymnal and Book of Worship, provides a judicial system and procedures, initiates and directs all connectional enterprises of the church, and enacts other legislation for the operation of the church. 

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THE ROLE AND FUNCTION OF THE GENERAL AGENCIES (Taken from a brochure at the 2007 Annual United Methodist Church Conference)

Thirteen general agencies provide a wide range of highly specialized ministries to serve United Methodists everywhere. 

The General Board of Global Misistries improves the lives-and the possibilities-of chidren everywhere.

The General Board of Discipleship and The United Methodist Publishing House team up to invigorate Bible studies with innovative new programs.

The General Board of Church and Society helps teenagers to combat guns and violence.

The list goes on.  Your grandchild is a high school senior looking toward the future.  Where to begin?  The General Board of Higher Education and Ministry offers information about United Methodist colleges and universities-including opportunities for financial aid.

Your local church wants to begin accepting electronic pledge payments.  The General Council on Finance and Administration sponsors an electronic funds transfer program.  All 13 general agencies step in just when you need help.  They may be located far from where you live, but their job, thier mission, is to provide help-when and where you need it. 

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Century of Change: A New Church (Taken from a brochure at the 2007 Annual United Methodist Church Conference)

1720 - The Holy Club - John Wesley with his intense focus on personal religious experience embarks on a spiritual journey that will last a lifetime, planting seeds of an invigorating new Methodist Movement in Christian life.

1730 - Immersed in Christ - "Jesus Christ became a living, intimate force in Wesley's life," records historian Frederick A. Norwood, "the center of his devotion and assurance, one whom he wanted all to know."

1736 - A New Land - John and his brother Charles brave the hazardous voyage across the stormy Atlantic to do God's work in the new colony of Georgia.

1738 - Revival - English Methodist evangelist George Whitefield, a close associate of the Wesley brothers, makes seven trips to the colonies.  His electrifying sermons attract thousands, become a primary force in the Great Awakening.

1741 - The First Conference - Wesley summons helpers from all across the British Isles for a five-day meeting in 1741 to discuss the disciplines and doctrines that would help them make disciples of Jesus Christ-an annual conference that would become a building block of Methodism.

1760's - In the Service of Christ - Pastor Wesley sends Francis Asbury, Thomas Rankin, George Shadford, Devereux Jarratt and other young preachers to spread the gospel in the American colonies.

1766 - The First Church - Philip Embury organizes the first Methodist Church in th ecolonies in 1766, in New York City.  Wesley Chapel, the first permanent home of America's oldest continuous congegration, is dedicated on October 30, 1768.

1784 - From Movement to Church - Methodism becomes an organized church as new congregations are born and Francis Asbury is elected its first bishop on December 27, 1784, in the city of Baltimore.

1784 - Great Friends - Philip WIlliam Otterbein, who later would become principal founder of the United Bretheren in Christ, is invited to assist Francis Asbury, his great friend for more than 40 years, is consecrated as the first bishop of a new church in a new country.

1790 - Another Servant - Following his conversion young Jacob Albrright is nurtured in his Christian faith in Methodist class meetings in the 1790's.  Later Albright becomes founder of the Evangelical Branch of the Evangelical United Brethren Church.

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What Christians Believe

1. People were created in God’s image to love and to be loved.

2. God’s love remains strong and is always available to people.

3. People’s ability to give and receive love is blocked for two basic reasons. As creatures facing death, we are prone to selfishness and we are prone to feel unworthy.

4. God sent Jesus to conquer death and forgive our selfishness and heal our unworthiness.

5. Jesus’ revelation of God, his death on the cross, and his resurrection from the dead, all work together to bring us life, forgiveness, and healing.

6. People who are rescued from sin and shame by Jesus are chosen to be God’s people to offer the peace of Jesus’ forgiveness and healing to others.

Christians Are People Who:

Admit they are powerless over their own selfishness and unworthiness.

Discover Jesus is the one who can forgive and heal them.

Make a Decision to turn their lives over to the loving God that Jesus reveals.

Grow and develop a deeper relationship with God through their involvement in Jesus’ church.

Help Jesus’ love the world and help his church fulfill its mission to make disciples for him.