Welcome

What to Expect

1. Expect to be welcomed by many people. We are a very hospitable group of folks. You will be greeted several times before you leave our facility.

2. Expect to receive a free gift. If you register your attendance as a first-time guest at our Visitor Center, we have a welcome bag for you with a gift meant to say, “Thanks” for worshipping with us today.

3. Expect not to be put on the spot! We recognize that when you visit for the first time, you are checking us out and not the other way around. Although we may invite you, welcome you, and encourage you, no one will put you on the spot, make you wear any kind of name tag, or do anything else that inhibits your anonymity.

4. Expect to leave having learned something new. Our pastor’s sermons are designed to challenge us to do something great, but also to teach us. The messages utilize media, are deeply rooted in the Bible, and are aimed at making us better Christians. Although the message is understandable to all, it is aimed at growing Christians.

5. Expect that you will not feel underdressed or overdressed. When you worship at First Methodist Church, you will see folks in suits as well as blue jeans, women in dresses and long pants. We have no dress code at FMC.

6. Expect to experience inspiring worship in a beautiful facility. Our sanctuary is warm and inviting with elements of both tradition and contemporary worship. Our youth facility has everything needed to inspire and minister to our next generation of disciples. Our nursery is clean and staffed with loving caregivers. First Methodist Church was built as a testimony to God.

7. Expect to leave feeling better than when you arrived. One of the goals of church worship is to empower God’s people to walk out of the doors into the world and “be” the church. Through the experience of scripture, song, laughter, tears, worship, and community, you will leave our church better equipped to be what God has called you to be.

Our core beliefs are that the one God – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit – has created all things; that Jesus Christ, through the power of his cross and Resurrection, is the Lord and Savior of all the world; and that the Holy Spirit empowers the people of his church to worship and praise God and to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world in word and deed.