WHAT WE BELIEVE
We welcome you to Forest Hill United Methodist Church! Please, let us know if you have any questions and how we can help you get connected to the ministries and missions here. Our deepest desire is for you to experience the love and grace of God through Forest Hill UMC.
MISSION
As a community following Christ, we know and live God’s LOVE, strive to GROW in faith and discipleship, and are compelled to SERVE others near and far.
WHO WE ARE
We are a community of believers striving to live out God’s call to be disciples of Jesus Christ. People of all ages and backgrounds, LOVE God through passionate worship, GROW together in community group study, and SERVE others in tangible ways.
BELIEFS
Forest Hill United Methodist Church is a part of the worldwide United Methodist denominations. John and Charles Wesley, brother who were Anglican priests, began our denomination as a revival movement within the Church of England in the 18th century. They, along with their friends, set out to revive the church by encouraging Christian discipleship through the spiritual disciplines of prayer; worship, study of scripture, serving the poor, the Sacraments, and mutual accountability and encouragement among fellow Christians.
For Methodists then and now, head and heart go together. Lifelong learning about God, the world, and ourselves is an important part of what it means to be a faithful follower of Jesus. Likewise, we believe that transformed hearts and minds lead naturally to a concern for the lives of our neighbors, thus our strong emphasis on missions and social justice ministries. Methodists also place a significant emphasis on the grace and love of God. We believe, with most Christians, that we have fallen short of being the people God has created and called us to be. We believe that our sin has separated us from God, from one another, from a proper relationship with creation, and our true selves. We cannot, on our own, overcome our condition, save and heal ourselves. Because God loves, God longs to be in relationship with us and graciously and lovingly reaches out to us to save us from this sin. God reached out in the most amazing way by sending God’s only Son — Jesus Christ — to be an example for how we should live in the world and to give his life for the salvation of the world. Forest Hill United Methodist Church is a part of the worldwide United Methodist denominations. John and Charles Wesley, brother who were Anglican priests, began our denomination as a revival movement within the Church of England in the 18th century. They, along with their friends, set out to revive the church by encouraging Christian discipleship through the spiritual disciplines of prayer; worship, study of scripture, serving the poor, the Sacraments, and mutual accountability and encouragement among fellow Christians.
