Membership
Church membership is open to all who believe in Jesus Christ and desire to grow as a disciple. If you would like to talk about your own baptism or church membership please call Pastor ReNe'e (540-735-4225 or 540-659-2461) or email her at reneerichey@ateague.com with any questions.
What Does It Mean to be a Member?
While you can be a Christian without joining a church, we believe you can be a more effective Christian by entering into the church’s membership, where you can hear and understand God’s Word, learn from one another and experience Christ’s presence as a group gathered in Christ’s name. Nearly ten million United Methodists have experienced the joy of sharing Christ’s vision and witness through the
What Does it Mean to Join the Church?
- Involvement: Involvement in prayer, worship and sacraments; in study of the scriptures; in Christian action and discipline.
Sharing: Sharing through your prayer, presence, gifts and service for the sake of the Church's mission and ministry in the community and throughout the world.
Celebrating our commitment to God and to God’s created world, our purpose in God’s world and God’s concern with our lives and life together.
Why Should You Join the Church?
So you can discover your faith, and live it out more fully in your life by: - Loving God, other people and yourself in an atmosphere of giving and receiving.
- Growing as a Christian, with guidance, support and inspiration.
- Serving God in the world. When we work together, the impossible becomes possible.
What are our Expectation of Membership?
Expectations once you’ve joined: To attend worship every week unless you are sick or out-of-town.
To pursue at least one means of growing in your faith in addition to the weekly worship service.
To serve in one area in the church at least once every year.
To grow toward the tithe, giving in proportion to your income.
Membership Vows?
When you join the church, the pastor will invite you forward during worship and ask you the following questions:
- On behalf of the whole church, I ask you: Do you reject the spiritual forces of wickedness, the evil powers of this world and the bondage to sin?
- Do you accept the freedom God gives you to resist evil, injustice and oppression in whatever forms they present themselves?
- Do you confess Jesus Christ as your savior, put your whole trust in his grace and promise to serve him as your Lord, in union with the Church which Christ has opened to people of all ages, nations and races?
- According to the grace given to you, will you remain faithful members of Christ’s holy Church and serve as Christ’s representatives in the world?
- As members of Christ’s universal Church, will you be loyal to the
- As members of this congregation, will you faithfully participate in it’s ministries by your prayers, your presence, your gifts and your service?
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What Does it Mean to Join the Church?
Sharing: Sharing through your prayer, presence, gifts and service for the sake of the Church's mission and ministry in the community and throughout the world.
Celebrating our commitment to God and to God’s created world, our purpose in God’s world and God’s concern with our lives and life together.
Why Should You Join the Church?
- Loving God, other people and yourself in an atmosphere of giving and receiving.
- Growing as a Christian, with guidance, support and inspiration.
- Serving God in the world. When we work together, the impossible becomes possible.
What are our Expectation of Membership?
Expectations once you’ve joined:
To attend worship every week unless you are sick or out-of-town.
To pursue at least one means of growing in your faith in addition to the weekly worship service.
To serve in one area in the church at least once every year.
To grow toward the tithe, giving in proportion to your income.
Membership Vows?
When you join the church, the pastor will invite you forward during worship and ask you the following questions:
- On behalf of the whole church, I ask you: Do you reject the spiritual forces of wickedness, the evil powers of this world and the bondage to sin?
- Do you accept the freedom God gives you to resist evil, injustice and oppression in whatever forms they present themselves?
- Do you confess Jesus Christ as your savior, put your whole trust in his grace and promise to serve him as your Lord, in union with the Church which Christ has opened to people of all ages, nations and races?
- According to the grace given to you, will you remain faithful members of Christ’s holy Church and serve as Christ’s representatives in the world?
- As members of Christ’s universal Church, will you be loyal to the
United Methodist Church and do all in your power to strengthen it’s ministries? - As members of this congregation, will you faithfully participate in it’s ministries by your prayers, your presence, your gifts and your service?
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