Pastor’s Message
Here at Paint Creek United Methodist Church we celebrate our mission and our ministries, our fruits and our gifts. Finding new ways to show people that Christ’s love is something to celebrate, adding people to the kingdom, not subtracting them from the roster, blending and not colliding. We celebrate the role of the laity at Paint Creek, as they are the hands, voice and heart of Christ.
We are CLAITY, Clergy and Laity working together as one to go out into the community to be in mission and ministry. We want to continue to have a strong community outreach. We want to engage in a variety of community ministries. Our individual faith in God is lived out in the community of the church for the sake of transforming the world.
At Paint Creek United Methodist Church we know that serving God isn’t just coming to church on Sunday and that the greatest needs are outside our doors. We are a Sending Community.
The United Methodist Church has a second-generation Igniting Ministry campaign: “Rethink Church.” A component of the campaign is the image of 10,000 doors through which persons can come into the United Methodist Church and find a welcome and a place to serve.
I would like to add that through those same 10,000 doors we must go out into the community to serve others and to make disciples of Jesus Chris for the transformation of the world. That, I believe, is how we will get people interested enough to come in.
We want to be your church and we invite you to come, check us out, meet our congregation and allow us to help you take the next steps toward Christian discipleship.
If you have been away for a while, welcome home, and we ask that your membership, ministry and mission be reignited, reenergized and recommitted to Christ at Paint Creek United Methodist Church.
Grace & Peace,
Pastor Tom