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Mission Statement
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AFFIRMATION
In response to God's creative, redeeming, and sustaining grace, we affirm:
Every person is precious, a unique combination of hopes and hurts, fulfillment and frustration, dreams and despair.
Every person is encouraged to share each strength and weakness for the spiritual enrichment of all our sisters and brothers in the church and the world.
All that happens in our gathered company is intended to enhance our listening, caring, and serving, wherever we live, work, plan and play.
We worship and work, not for our own goals and glory, but for the expansion of God's love, mercy and justice. In God, as experienced through Jesus Christ, we find our life, our purpose, our fulfillment.
MISSION STATEMENT
University United Methodist Church, located in the center of the city of Madison and the campus of the University of Wisconsin, respects and celebrates diversity and welcomes each person to seek God and share Christ's message of love, justice and shalom. As a Reconciling Congregation, we invite all to full participation in this church regardless of gender, race, nationality, physical or mental abilities, sexual orientation, age, marital status or economic condition. Amidst all its diversity, University Church has a particular call to be in ministry with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons. As a campus church, historically affiliated with The Wesley Foundation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University Church serves the faculty, students, staff and alumnae/i of the university community and individuals and families within the broader communities of the city, state and world.
(Adopted by 1972, revised February 13, 1996) |
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