These are exciting times at Gordonsville United Methodist Church and I thank God for allowing me to be a part of them. Remember: We are all agreed to uphold the Church with our prayers, presences, gifts and services.

Together we can accomplish great things for Jesus as we serve as His people in ministry.

Our church is one of over 41,000 congregations of United Methodism in the world. We hold to the basic teachings of Christianity, and consider ourselves part of the whole church of Jesus Christ, made up of many denominations.

We are followers of Jesus Christ; but the founder of our family of Christians, John Wesley, gave emphasis to certain Christian truths:

1. Everyone can know God's love through Christ and be changed. This is God's "amazing grace."
2. This grace fills us with an assurance that we are God's beloved children, and gives us courage to live our lives with strength, integrity, love and compassion.
3. God wants us, both as individuals and as communities, to be better than we are. So we are active in applying God's truth to our own lives, and to the larger communities of which we are a part.
4. While we are bound together by these truths, we celebrate a wide diversity in opinions about many matters. John Wesley said that Methodists are not defined by their opinions, but by how much they love God and "shed God's love abroad in the world."

United Methodists are tied together by a unique connectional structure enabling a strong presence throughout the world, and our local congregation is a vital part of that connection.