The Sacraments

United Methodists acknowledge and celebrate two sacraments,

which are the holy acts in which Jesus participated: 

Baptism and Holy Communion

We celebrate Holy Communion the first Sunday of the month. 

We believe the act of being fed in community

is healing and transforming.

We believe that partaking in the Holy Mystery of the Eucharist

is a powerful statement of faith,

understanding grace-freely-given

and the body that was

broken and given, that we might be free, healed, and made whole. 

No one should be given or broken by another, again. 

We believe in the sacrament of Baptism,

the first blessing of God's grace

that is bestowed upon us and upon our children,

that precedes anything we can do, or say, or proclaim. 

We believe the sacraments are outwards symbols

of faith in the work of the church,

the gathered community of peoples,

a radical belief in an age of independence and isolation.

We believe in the encounter with the divine,

the Holy Spirit that changes us

in love and for love for each other

on earth as it is in heaven.