• God is bigger, better and closer than we can imagine.
• The Bible is God’s complete guidebook for living.
• Jesus is God showing himself to us.
• Through His Holy Spirit, God lives in and through us now.
• The church is God active and present today.
• Nothing in creation “just happened.” God made it all.
• Grace is the only way to have a relationship with God.
• God wants to have a relationship with You!
• Faith is the only way to grow in our relationship with God.
• God has allowed evil to provide us with a choice, God can bring good even out of evil events and God promises victory over evil to those who choose him.
• Heaven and hell are real places. Death is a beginning, not the end.
• The church is to serve people like Jesus served people.
• Jesus is coming again.
• We can become more like Jesus by following Jesus.

 

 

Mission Statement

Our mission is to develop Christian disciples who glorify God.

 

 

Vision Statement

Our shared Vision of Welsey by 2015.  "Where should Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church be in 2015?"  This was the question a Vision Team wrestled with for several months.  Through a great deal of discussion, prayer and discernment, a vision statement was developed including specific areas in which we believe the church is poised and most wants to grow.

 

We are called to be God's people.  As a community of faith we reflect our relationship wiht God in Jesus Christ.  One of the best ways we can be God's people is to cast and seek to fulfill a vision.  Proverbs 29:18 declares, "Where there is no vision, the people perish..."  By forming, embracing and then fulfilling a vision for Wesley, we are seeking to be the people of God. 

 

 

The Five Pillars of Our Vision

 

An irresistible Children's Ministry, with program aimed toward developing disciples and meeting the needs of families and that is appropriately staffed for continued growth.

 

A focus on Missions/Outreach that allows Wesley to become a force in our community, assessing needs and positively impacting our neighbors in order to serve God on a local, national and global level with a well-developed and organized group of servants.

 

Effective use of Technology to promote worship, enhance congregational life and improve communication within our congregation and the community.

 

Financial Health while aggressively working to eliminate debt;

Use our resources wisely;

Have each of our members striving toward a tithe;

and Fund ministry line items appropriately

 

Spiritual Growth within the congregation, with opportunities for prayer, study, worship, service, fellowship and sacraments.  To insure appropriate offerings, the church should continually assess the congregation's individual and collective needs, develop and provide programs and classes, communicate what is offered and encourage opportunities for growth.

 

 

 

(*This statement was affirmed by WMUMC Church Council, January 17, 2011)