{"id":56,"date":"2015-11-08T06:46:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T06:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcellusumc.umcchurches.org\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2016-04-09T11:46:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T15:46:20","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcellusumc.org\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Marcellus UMC Vision Statement <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are a community seeking God\u2019s direction for discipleship. We are called to support one another, help people beyond our doors meet their spiritual and material needs, teach and share with others the lessons of our Christian faith, and intentionally glorify God through a variety of worship expressions.<\/p>\n<p>As a community seeking God\u2019s direction for discipleship we are called to:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Support one another by:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Visiting the sick and homebound<\/p>\n<p>Praying for the church and its people<\/p>\n<p>Offering personal assistance<\/p>\n<p>Accepting diversity and building one another up<\/p>\n<p><strong>Help people beyond our doors meet their spiritual and material needs by:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Facilitating mission experiences<\/p>\n<p>Inviting people to worship and church activities<\/p>\n<p>Participating in ecumenical events<\/p>\n<p>Communicating effectively in a variety of ways<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teach and share with others the lessons of our\u00a0Christian faith by:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Presenting a variety of small group learning\u00a0\u00a0opportunities<\/p>\n<p>Offering Sunday School classes for all ages<\/p>\n<p>Providing strong leadership for education<\/p>\n<p>Encouraging activities to apply lessons learned<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intentionally glorify God through a variety of worship expressions by:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Integrating a broad range of music styles<\/p>\n<p>Utilizing laity of all ages<\/p>\n<p>Appreciating that God speaks to people\u00a0differently<\/p>\n<p>Theming worship to be relevant to daily life<\/p>\n<p>Inspiring worshippers to share Christ\u2019s love with\u00a0others<\/p>\n<p><strong>We shall live into this vision!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Date: Spring 2014 Involvement: Visioning Team of laity, input from the congregation, and guidance from Lauren Swanson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcellus UMC Vision Statement We are a community seeking God\u2019s direction for discipleship. We are called to support one another, help people beyond our doors meet their spiritual and material [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellusumc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellusumc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellusumc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellusumc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellusumc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marcellusumc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/marcellusumc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellusumc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellusumc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}