Love All, Serve All!

“Welcome to all who: Hope for a better world and who have lost hope, believers and seekers, conventional Christians and questioning skeptics, women, men, youth, aged, and children – of all races and cultures, of all income levels, of all social classes, of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and of all physical and mental abilities. Come as you are. You are welcome here!”

Greetings, on behalf of the faithful of Yorktown United Methodist Church, I welcome you to our site and to our family. There are many reasons why you might be reading these words. You may be new in town and are looking for a church ─ you are welcome here. Maybe you struggled with religion and took a leap of faith to click on our site ─ you are welcome here. Maybe you have never known faith and something inside has moved you to learn more about YUMC ─ you are welcome here. That is what it means to be United Methodists. We are people who serve a loving God, sent forth to love others, so they might know their sacred worth. In this world, everywhere you turn, we hear: you are not good enough, you are too old, too fat, not smart enough, not able, not worthy based on who you are. My friends, here at YUMC, where we live by the fires of the Holy Spirit, you are enough. Just as you are, baggage and blessing and all. You are beloved!

Love is the foundation of my ministry. 1 John 4:8 says, “God is love.” Love is what created all things, love is what sustains all things, from love all creation was made new, and it is in that unending love that we will one day unite. As Christians we are called to embrace God’s love and then take it into the world, so those who have yet to know they too are loved might join the fun. In praise of our God of love, we gather each week, not just as worshippers, but also as family and fellow travelers, seeking ways to grow our faith in God and our relationship with Jesus through personal holiness and by serving the world as Christ’s body. Thus, it is through prayers, songs, small groups, mission, and community presence that we seek to live love and to spread the love.

With that, I want to once again invite you to join us for worship on Sundays at 10:00am and to fellowship and serve with us throughout the week. To aid you in connecting with us, feel free to contact the church with questions, click here to hear one of our sermons, or if you would like to talk with me directly please email me to schedule a meeting. I am always up for coffee and a scone!

For three years, Jesus showed us how to live, so we might be saved from being lost in life. On the cross, Jesus reconnected us with God, so we would be saved from being lost in our life to come. Above all things, Christ sends us out to serve, to love, to protect the vulnerable, to support the forgotten, to love the mistreated and to reassure the struggling.

Simply put, people should know we are Christians by our love. As the song goes:

“We are one in the spirit; we are one in the lord. We are one in the spirit; we are one in the lord. And, we pray that all unity may one day be restored. And, they’ll know we are Christians by our love, by our love. Yes they’ll know we are Christians by our love.”

Join us here where our hearts, minds, and doors are open and where there is a place at the table for you and everyone.

Thomas
Pastor