Ministries
The Mission
The mission of our Church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ. Church provides the most significant arena through which disciple-making occurs.Rationale for Our Mission
The mission of Fair View is to make disciples of Jesus Christ by proclaiming the good news of God’s grace and thus seeking the fulfillment of God’s reign and realm in the world. The fulfillment of God's reign and realm in the world is the vision Scripture holds before us. The United Methodist Church affirms that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the Savior of the world, and the Lord of all. We respect persons of all religious faiths and we defend religious freedom for all persons. Jesus’ words in Matthew 28:1.9-20 provide the Church with our mission: “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, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you.”This mission is our grace-filled response to the Reign of God in the world announced by Jesus. God’s grace is active everywhere, at all times, carrying out this purpose as revealed in the Bible. It is expressed in God’s covenant with Abraham and Sarah, in the Exodus of Israel from Egypt, and in the ministry of the prophets. It is fully embodied in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is experienced in the ongoing creation of a new people by the Holy Spirit. John Wesley, Phillip Otterbein, Jacob Albright, and our other spiritual forebears understood this mission in this way. Whenever United Methodism has had a clear sense of mission, God has used our Church to save persons, heal relationships, transform social structures, and spread scriptural holiness, thereby changing the world. In order to be truly alive, we embrace Jesus’ mandate to make disciples of all peoples.
The Process for Carrying Out Our Mission
We make disciples as we:
-- proclaim the gospel, seek, welcome and gather persons into the body of Christ;-- lead persons to commit their lives to God through baptism and profession of faith in Jesus Christ;
-- nurture persons in Christian living through worship, the sacraments, spiritual disciplines, and other means of grace.
-- send persons into the world to live lovingly and justly as servants of Christ by healing the sick, feeding the hungry, caring for the stranger,
-- freeing the oppressed, and working to develop social structures that are consistent with the gospel;
-- continue the mission of seeking, welcoming and gathering persons into the community of the body of Christ.
