{"id":47,"date":"2019-05-29T21:38:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T21:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umclb.org\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2026-01-15T21:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:00:40","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.umclb.org\/?page_id=47","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umclb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/crossflame_300dpi-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-36 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.umclb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/crossflame_300dpi-copy-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"crossflame_300dpi copy\" width=\"171\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.umclb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/crossflame_300dpi-copy-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.umclb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/crossflame_300dpi-copy-813x1024.jpg 813w, https:\/\/www.umclb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/crossflame_300dpi-copy.jpg 1092w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><u>Los Banos United Methodist Church Mission Statement<\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<u>John Wesley<\/u><br \/>\n(Founder of the United Methodist Church)<br \/>\n<em>The World is my parish.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The people of The United Methodist Church are a worldwide connection of more than\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.umc.org\/who-we-are\/united-methodists-at-a-glance\">12\u00a0million members<\/a>\u00a0in Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The United Methodist Church was formed when the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.umc.org\/topics\/the-50th-anniversary-of-the-united-methodist-church\">merged in 1968<\/a>. But we trace our heritage back to the movement begun in 1729 in England by John and Charles Wesley.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.umc.org\/who-we-are\/formation-of-the-united-methodist-church\">Find out more about our history<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Banos United Methodist Church Mission Statement Making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. John Wesley (Founder of the United Methodist Church) The World is my parish. The people of The United Methodist Church are a worldwide connection of more than\u00a012\u00a0million members\u00a0in Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States. The United &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umclb.org\/?page_id=47\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umclb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umclb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umclb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umclb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umclb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.umclb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"https:\/\/www.umclb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umclb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}