Coordinating Committee
The committee coordinated conversations and gathered information.
Committee members were:
- Karen G. Prudente (Convener)
- Emma Cantor
- Olive Beltran
- Remedios Pablo
- Rev. Cristine Carnate-Atrero
- Venus Mae Gatdula
- Bishop Ciriano Francisco
- Bishop Rudolfo Juan
Discussion Groups
Participants completed an online survey. Responds were both clergy and lay, with clergy being the slight majority — 51% vs. 48%. Sixty-five percent of the participants were 41 years or older (41-55: 37.5%; 56 and above: 27.7%) and 35% were 40 or younger (40-24:27.2%; 23-13: 7.8%).
Top Survey Responses
What I value most in the current United Methodist Church:
- Passionate faith in Jesus lived by serving others
- Emphasis on God’s grace
- Theology shaped by scripture with tradition, experience and reason
- High value of Scripture and interpretation
- A wide welcome of people
- Embrace BOTH evangelism and justice
Beliefs about the current state of The United Methodist Church:
- Offers hope to people
- Cares about people like me
- Generous
- Making a real difference
- Trustworthy
If I could change The United Methodist Church, I would want:
- Passionate faith in Jesus lived by serving others
- A more fruitful denomination
- Emphasize on God’s grace
- Theology shaped by scripture with tradition, experience, and reason
- Embrace both evangelism and justice
- High value of Scripture and interpretation
- General Rules, avoid evil, do good and ordinances of God
Dreams for the future:
- Missional in nature
- Live theology of grace
- Live theology of social holiness
- Live theology of love
- Incarnate Jesus-like living
- Reflect a beloved community
- Reflect and live into a church of diversity and inclusiveness
I remain a United Methodist because:
- This Church molded me for who I am today — a strong person and rooted spiritually
- I love the structure, doctrines, tradition, principles, and biblically-based faith
- I love the church
- It promotes unity, global connections in ministry and missions, and social holiness