What We Believe

ONE MISSION: Transforming the world as learners of Jesus Christ.

TWO AREAS: We strive towards personal and social holiness.

THREE PRINCIPLES: Do no harm, do good, stay in love with God.

FOUR FOCUS AREAS: Eliminate poverty, improve health, create leaders for the world, make new space for new people.

A Methodist Creed affirming the historic Christian faith of the Apostles Creed and Nicene Creed – inspired by the writings of UMC Bishop Kenneth L.Carder

We believe in the Triune God, the Trinity – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

God the Father/ Creator who brings creation into existence, upholds and reveals the ways of life that make for peace and wholeness, and ever works to heal and transform life through the power of love.

God the Son, Jesus Christ, the firstborn of a new creation who through his life, death and resurrection saves us and all creation form the power of sin and death.

God the Holy Spirit, who comforts, sustains, guides and empowers us to participate in God’s life and mission in the world.

We believe the Bible reveals the Word of God

Authoritative in matters of faith and ethical practice.

Containing the story of God’s mighty acts of salvation in creation, in faithful engagement with people through the ages and supremely in Jesus Christ.
The primary source for understanding the nature and purposes of God.

Interpreted in the power of the Holy Spirit present in the community of faith.

We believe every person is a beloved child of God

Whom God created in God’s divine image with inherent worth and dignity.

Who confronts and suffers the distorting and destructive effects of sin in this life.

Whom God has reconciled in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, defeating the powers of sin and death.

Whom God seeks to make holy and whole, through the presence of the Holy Spirit, transforming us into Christlikeness.

We believe in the Church as a community called to be instruments of God’s presence and coming reign in Jesus Christ

Where people worship God joyfully , proclaim God’s words faithfully and share the sacraments of baptism and Holy Communion.

Where all people are initiated into Christ’s body and nurtured torwards Christian maturity through worship, study, service and celebration.

Where the light of God’s love, justice and peace exposes and overrules evil, injustice and sin.

Where we participate in God’s mission of inviting, preparing and enlisting disciples of Jesus Christ to transform the world and to follow the risen Christ, in the power of the Holy Spirit, into the hurting places of the world and among the outcasts and the forgotten.