The following information contains the mission, character, values, vision and goal of Free Methodists around the world. For more information about the Free Methodist denomination, please go to the following www.freemethodistchurch.org.

WORKING TOGETHER IN THE 21ST CENTURY

The mission of the Free Methodist Church is to make known to all people everywhere God's call to wholeness through forgiveness and holiness in Jesus Christ, and to invite into membership and to equip for ministry all who respond in faith.

VISION

A healthy biblical community of holy people...multiplying disciples, leaders, groups and churches.

OUR VISION PATH

Every church a healthy church with Spirit-filled leadership working a plan to fulfill our Expected Outcomes.

OUR EXPECTED OUTCOMES

1. Prayer-Saturated Congregation

- speaking to God on behalf of a lost world

- praying first, acting second

- interceding for individuals, rulers and nations to yield to the ultimate  victory of Christ

- listening to the Holy Spirit and obeying Him

2. Worshipping Congregation

- celebrating the saving grace of God in singing

- encountering God in prayers

- reading and obeying the Word

- observing the sacraments

3. Discipling Congregation

- connecting all who wish to know Christ to groups or cells

- nurturing believers toward Christ-like, obedient love

- enfolding believers, welcoming them into membership

- bringing disciples to a life pattern of holy living through the transforming work of the Holy Spirit

- taking and sending disciples into the world to serve

4. Evangelizing Congregation

-befriending spiritually lost people

-presenting and explaining the gospel in culturally relevant ways

-inviting spiritually lost people to trust Christ as Savior

5. Reproducing Congregation

- developing the next generation of pastoral and lay leaders

- establishing cells as core grouped for new church plants

- planting new congregations

6. Culture-Engaging Congregation

- seeking justice for all

- showing mercy to the poor

- empowering the disenfranchised

7. World-Mission Congregation

- engaging in Free Methodist (FM) World Missions

- giving vital resources

- sending cross-cultural evangelists

- providing diverse support teams

8. Purpose-Driven Congregation

- organizing for essentials only

- focusing on mission and vision to shape all ministry

- surrendering to Christ's mandated Great Commandment and

Great Commission

OUR COMMUNITY CULTURE

- We are a connectional church. We are strengthened most by our relationships based on truthfulness and grace.

- We believe our mission drives everything we do.

- We proclaim a grace that is free. Jesus said the crowning work of authentic ministry is this: when the poor have the gospel brought to them. Hence, the destitute and disenfranchised of the world deserve our particular care.

- We strive to make the message of the gospel relevant to our culture by remaining faithful to God, while showing love and sensitivity to the world.

- We accept all who come to us, seeing the most desperate sinner with the potential to become a whole and devoted follower of Jesus.

- We see smaller groups and cells within the larger Body of Christ as the best environment for the birth, mentoring, encouragement and care of new believers.

- We view our local churches as mission outposts. Our pastors are appointed, not just to a local congregation and building, but to the evangelization of whole communities, towns or cities.

- We see ourselves as an apostolic movement. We are a "sent" people, charged with the task of reaching new territories and new populations of people with the gospel.

- We are Wesleyan in our doctrine and in our practice. We value the guidance of the scriptures and the consensus of the Church throughout her history.

- We are to be a holy people. Our conduct and our teaching are to reflect the holiness and love of God. We seek nothing less than the healing of mind, body and soul of all who come under our care.

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

                                                                                      1 peter 2:9, NIV