The mission of the West Kentucky Conference, as well as the
African Methodist Episcopal Church, is to minister to the
spiritual, intellectual, physical, emotional, economic,
and environmental needs of all people by spreading Christ’s
liberating gospel through witnessing and service.
At every level of our church, we shall engage in carrying our
mission and purpose. We shall seek out and save the lost and
serve the needy through a continuing program of: {1} preaching
and teaching the gospel, praise, prayer, worship; {2} feeding the
hungry; {3} clothing the naked; {4} housing the homeless;
{5} cheering the fallen; {6} providing jobs for the jobless;
{7} administering to the needs of those in prisons, hospitals,
nursing and senior citizens homes, caring for the sick, the shut-in,
the mentally and socially disturbed, and {8} encouraging thrift
and economic advancement.
OUR BELIEF
We believe that both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible constitute
the divinely inspired Word of God. We also believe in One God existing
eternally in three persons; the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Moreover, we believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, became
man without ceasing to be God (Very Man and Very God), in order that He
might reveal God and redeem sinful man. We further believe that the Holy
Spirit came forth from the Father and the Son to convict the world of sin,
of righteousness and of judgement to regenerate, sanctify, comfort and
fill those who believe in Jesus Christ.
As demonstrated in the Word of God, we believe in supernatural healing power
and miracles of the Holy Spirit. Through the Word of God, we are taught that
man is totally depraved in that of himself and utterly unable to remand his
lost condition. Likewise, we know that the life of the believer is to be separated
from the world through discipline by a consistent and holy conduct before God and
man as a "life-giving" light.
The Word of God teaches us that salvation is a gift of God brought to man by grace
and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whose blood was shed on
the cross as an atonement for all sins. According to the Word of God, water baptism
symbolizes the believer's union in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
In obedience to the Word of God, we are taught to observe the Lord's Supper through
Holy Communion, in and effort to commemorate the sacrifice of our Savior for mankind
and the Holy Baptism.
Lastly, we believe in the personal and visible bodily return of the lord Jesus Christ.