Our Church Vision:
Our vision is to be a growing and committed family of believers,
united as followers of Christ.
Our Church Mission:
Our mission is to love God
and to share His love with one another, our community, and the world.
Goals
To accomplish our mission, we will focus upon the following five goals:
Worship: We will offer heartfelt praise and adoration to our loving God. (John 12:32; Psalm 100)
Fellowship: We will show love, care, compassion, and a sense of belonging to all. (Acts 2:38-42; Col.3:12-14)
Discipleship: We will help followers of Christ to become more like Christ. (Col.1:28-29; Eph.4:11-16)
Ministry: We will reach out with our gifts and talents to people in need throughout our church, community, and world. (Ephesians 4:11-16)
Mission: We will inspire each member to share the love of Christ in both word and deed in our community, our country, and the world (Acts.1:8)
Through prayer and discernment we are constantly seeking God’s will for our church, believing
that all of our activities must be directed by God in order to be supported by His love. We are
continually evaluating our ministries to make sure that everything we do as a church is in keeping
with one of the five goals above. Through this process we are striving to become a people who
passionately love God (worship), purposefully grow in Christ (fellowship and discipleship),
and profoundly influence people with God’s Word (ministry and mission.)
Our Core Values
We value prayer as the Church’s lifeblood, keeping us in touch with God.
We value the family of God - the Church - as the place where we can experience the love and care of God.
We value biblically-centered preaching and teaching, and inspiring worship.
We value God’s grace and unconditional love toward us, and see it as a model of how we should relate to others with openness and acceptance.
We value our heritage as United Methodists and our long history of ministry and service in El Dorado.
We value community involvement by the church.
Our Core Beliefs
1) We believe that the Bible is the authoritative standard for life. All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
2) We believe the key tenets of faith as outlined in the Apostle’s Creed. We believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth; And in Jesus Christ, his only Son our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; the third day he rose from the dead; he ascended to heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.
3) We believe that the proper relationship with our Lord and with one another is described by the words of the Great Commandment. Jesus was asked, "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?" and he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets." (Matthew 22:36-40)
4) We believe that our great mission and task as the church is to live out Christ’s Great Commission. And Jesus came and said to them All authority is heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo I am with you always, to the very end of the age. (Matthew 28:18-20)
5) We believe that the power of the church comes from serious devotion to prayer, as described by the Lord’s Prayer.Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our trespasses, as we also have forgiven our trespassers. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. [For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen] (Matthew 6:9-13)
6) We believe that as disciples of Christ we must constantly seek to discern and do God’s will, not our own. Our own works of faith must follow God’s will in order to be supported by the Spirit of the Living Christ. Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground. (Psalm.143:10)
