All Authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the close of the age.

The paragraph immediately above has been the articulated statement of purpose of the First United Methodist Church, Marengo, Iowa, for the past several years. The statement of purpose was reaffirmed at each and every one of our administrative council meetings. God is expecting us to observe all that he has commanded. We are to have a concern for our church members and friends, for our community, for our nation and for all persons in the world. We are to reach out to all in our community with the message of repentance, forgiveness, love, salvation, relationship with Jesus Christ and reconciliation of all things to God the Father.

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