About the United Methodist Church

The pilgrimage of faith is never simply an individual undertaking. We are part of a great company of the faithful on a journey that begins where we are and continues as we walk together and grow in our faith. Indeed, that is the story of our church. It is a story of a searching God and a seeking people that has its origins in the eighteenth century evangelistic outreach and ministries of John and Charles Wesley of The Church of England. The beginnings of this movement within the Anglican Church provided the impetus for the denomination that eventually became the United Methodist Church.

As United Methodists, we believe that we have an obligation to bear a faithful Christian witness to Jesus Christ, the living reality at the center of the Church's life and witness. To fulfill this obligation we reflect critically on our biblical and theological inheritance, striving to express faithfully the witness we make in our time. Like John Wesley, we believe that the living core of the Christian faith is revealed in Scripture, illumined by tradition, vivified in personal experience, and confirmed by reason and that all of these aspects of our life work together to strengthen and encourage our journey of faith and together bring us to a greater understanding of God and the world in which we live.