In the last two vision documents we identified our mission and clarified our focus in the context of the seven foundational pillars expressed in our Mission.

We believe that being laser-focused on the seven foundational pillars has created the perfect conditions for the cultivation of fertile ground in which God has been growing MIC numerically and in depth of discipleship. Today, we can rejoice in every way that we have seen God at work. He has been faithful to us through significant moments: occupying Wesleyan House (2018), social unrest (2019), and pandemic (2020). Through these years we have built a 'Home' where all can feel secure and welcome, a place to rest securely, to heal, and to flourish in Christ.

In the new season ahead, the invitation of Jesus is clear: 'Come follow me'. Jesus invites us to increasingly 'lay down our nets' and journey out with him from 'Home'. He bids us to be much more invitational to the stranger, and to learn how to love our neighbour and God's creation more deeply.

During the next three years we will continue to commit to strengthening our seven foundational pillars, while expanding the scope of the existing work. We will endeavour to deepen our worship, prayer, and fellowship life, creating a united, joyful, loving community which is attractive and inviting to all. With the help of the Holy Spirit, we will offer radical hospitality and further seek to deepen our call to be a healing community, where all people may experience the transformative power of Jesus in their lives.

But moving forward into this new season, our staff and leadership team will also be charged with leading us to be more courageous and creative in ensuring that our focus remains outwards, to share the good news and serve the community of Hong Kong. We will focus on being good stewards of God's creation, and on how that stewardship impacts our community. And we will explore how we may further utilise Wesleyan House in this great endeavour.

We will follow Jesus closely and not miss our way.

Revd Eden J Fletcher

SENIOR PASTOR

The Methodist Church claims and cherishes its place in the Holy Catholic Church which is the Body of Christ. It rejoices in the inheritance of the apostolic faith and loyally accepts the fundamental principles of the historic creeds and of the Protestant Reformation. It ever remembers that in the providence of God Methodism was raised up to spread scriptural holiness through the land by the proclamation of the evangelical faith and declares its unfaltering resolve to be true to its divinely appointed mission.

The doctrines of the evangelical faith which Methodism has held from the beginning and still holds are based upon the divine revelation recorded in the Holy Scriptures. The Methodist Church acknowledges this revelation as the supreme rule of faith and practice. These evangelical doctrines to which the preachers of the Methodist Church are pledged are contained in Wesley's Notes on the New Testament and the first four volumes of his sermons.

The Notes on the New Testament and the 44 Sermons are not intended to impose a system of formal or speculative theology on Methodist preachers, but to set up standards of preaching and belief which should secure loyalty to the fundamental truths of the gospel of redemption and ensure the continued witness of the Church to the realities of the Christian experience of salvation.