Who We Are
Senior Pastor
Rev. Dr. Seok-Hwan Hong
Youth/EC Pastor
Jane Chun JDSN
Denomination
As a greater church, we are a part of the New England conference of the United Methodist Church, which finds its roots in the Wesleyan tradition. Feel free to take a look at what our greater family is all about in the links above.
Vision and Mission
As part of a UMC church, we as a ministry operate under the vision of the UMC’s mission statement, which is to make disciples of Jesus Christ transformed by the Gospel for the transformation of the world.
We seek to fulfill this vision through our church’s mission, which is to:
Welcome all people to experience God through Jesus Christ
Empower all members as disciples transformed by the Gospel with faith in real life
Send all members into the world to serve in Jesus’ name
Core Values
As a ministry, we affirm that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, Savior of the world, and Lord of all; we believe that although we in our sin deserved eternal separation from God, Jesus, in his love for the world, died for our sins and resurrected on the third day; we affirm that He is now seated at the right hand of God the Father, and in light of this Good News, we affirm that through His death and resurrection, we are given the gracious gift of eternal life with God.
Our Core values, echoed from the UMC’s Process for Carrying Out Our Mission, are:
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to glorify God and enjoy His presence; to encounter God and experience Gospel-driven transformation through worship; to nurture all members of the church through worship, the sacraments, spiritual disciplines, and grace;
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to be built up, supported, and held accountable in love and grace; to be taught and to be heard; to “lead persons to commit their lives to God through baptism by water and the spirit and profession of faith in Jesus Christ;”
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to be one family as true brothers and sisters bound together by the blood of Christ;
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to be respectful of all persons, regardless of what they identify as; to treat all persons with the dignity and worth they ought to be given as image-bearers;
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to be “witnesses in the world by word and deed”; to “do justice and love mercy” (Mic. 6:8) as the visible church of Christ.