Joining the church is not a complicated thing.  It simply means that you wish to be allied in an active manner with a Christ Professing Fellowship of Believers. At the conclusion of the sermon in each service an extension of invitation is offered to anyone who would desire membership. At that time the person seeking membership simply walks to the front of the church and explain to the representative from the Commission on Membership and Evangelism that you wish to join this church.  If a person desires to join at time other than a regular worship service, this may be accomplished through making known the wish to any member of the ministry team or Commission on Membership and Evangelism. The Ritual of our church sets forth three ways by which a person can join our church.  Those three ways are highlighted below. Every new member must also submit to an eight week new Member Orientation and Training Class scheduled at different times throughout the year.

You may first join the church as a candidate for Baptism.  This means that you wish to be administered the right of Baptism as expressed in Biblical tradition. You may be baptized either through immersion, sprinkling or pouring on of water.

Secondly, you may join the church through Christian Experience.  This means that in your walk of discipleship as an already baptized believer your encounter with Christ in the experiences of your life has given you adequate knowledge of what it means to hope in, depend upon and live for Jesus Christ.  Thus through these experiences you have become seasoned enough in your walk that you are able to pick up your continued walk under a “new housing” or place of membership. This assumes also that you come to the church with membership in tact from another church.

Finally, you may join the church through Letter of Transfer.  This letter of transfer is secured from your former church indicating that you are a member in good standing in another Christ Professing fellowship already having been baptized into the body of Christ.  It does not require a second baptism.

Butler Street is one of many members of a denomination known as the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (CME).  The CME Church is located throughout the world. Specifically in The United States, The Caribbean and West Africa.  Membership in Butler Street connects you with the larger church of CME’s.  When you join the church not only are you connected to a body of churches with worldwide focus and ministry but also in your local church such as Butler Street you gain great benefits. Those benefits are listed below and come from the Book of Acts 2:42-47

You benefit from Biblical Instruction

“And they continued steadfastly in the apostle’s doctrine." V. 42

You benefit from Fellowship

“And they continued steadfastly in the apostle’s doctrine & fellowship." V. 42

“And in the breaking of bread”

“And in prayer.”  V. 42

“Then fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done

 through the apostles.”  V.43

“Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone hadneed.”  V. 44-45

ADDITIONALLY YOU ARE:

BLESSED BY MOVING WORSHIP EXPERIENCES

Filled with joyous spiritual abandon

BLESSED BY CHURCH DISCIPLINE

To help us sustain order and peace in our lives and in our daily walk with Christ.

BLESSED BY A PASTOR WHO CARES

A spiritual leader who cares about you and your family and takes seriously his call from God as it is acted out in the lives of the believers and in his walk with God.