{"id":132,"date":"2011-07-02T10:22:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T15:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=132"},"modified":"2025-02-19T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T17:11:07","slug":"about-bvumc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/about-bvumc\/","title":{"rendered":"Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As United Methodists, we have an obligation to bear a faithful Christian witness to Jesus Christ, the living reality at the center of the Church\u2019s life and witness. To fulfill this obligation, we reflect critically on our biblical and theological inheritance, striving to express faithfully the witness we make in our own time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:32% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"192\" height=\"235\" src=\"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ReconcilingMinistriesButton.small_-350x235-e1567105551108.png\" alt=\"Reconciling Ministries\" class=\"wp-image-989 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ReconcilingMinistriesButton.small_-350x235-e1567105551108.png 192w, https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ReconcilingMinistriesButton.small_-350x235-e1567105551108-123x150.png 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>We are a Reconciling Ministry. Reconciling Ministries Network envisions a renewed and vibrant Wesleyan movement that is biblically and theologically centered. As committed disciples of Jesus Christ, we strive to transform ourselves and the world by living out the Gospel\u2019s teachings of grace, love, justice, and celebration of ALL of God\u2019s children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can learn more through&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/rmnetwork.org\/\">https:\/\/rmnetwork.org<\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:64% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"249\" height=\"162\" src=\"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/bvumcext_11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>The Methodist denomination organized the first church in Bay View. It was a small wooden church built in 1868 by\u00a0English immigrants on the land donated by the Milwaukee\u00a0Iron Company at what today is 2471 and 2473 S. Wentworth\u00a0Ave. The congregation moved to this Victorian\u00a0Gothic cream city brick building, designed by parishioner William Davelaar and erected in 1888.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After World War II, husband and wife Lillian and Willis Leenhouts designed an educational wing and remodeled the church interior, installing new stained glass windows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bayviewhistoricalsociety.org\">Bay View Historical Society<\/a> designated the Bay View United Methodist Church as a landmark on May 6, 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As United Methodists, we have an obligation to bear a faithful Christian witness to Jesus Christ, the living reality at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":969,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-132","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}