About Us

Our Mission

To make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world

Our Discipleship Path

Come Worship

The first step on The Path is to Come Worship. It is in worship that we experience God and respond to the grace God has made available to us through Jesus Christ. This is a great first step, but it is not the end of The Path. Now we are ready to go to the next step, to Build Faith.

Build Faith

The second step on The Path is to Build Faith. This normally occurs in a smaller group than when we all gather for worship. In a smaller group, we find a safe place to explore what faith means in the midst of real life. Through life group conversations, studies, and experiences we take steps to trust God and build faith. As we take this step, we are making progress, but there is still more ahead of us. The next step is to Love People.

Love People

The third step on The Path is when we turn our God given abilities and desires outward, and we actively Love People as the hands and feet of Christ. This is where we take notice of the people around us, perhaps those whose names we do not know, and intentionally love them as Christ would love them. We meet them where they are, love them as they are, and invite them to join us on The Path.

Ministry Teams

Our ministry teams are the life of the church. These volunteer-led teams are full of individuals who partner and work behind the scenes and center stage and everywhere in between to make Asbury happen. See how you can be a part and join a team today!

Making church like Heaven on Earth by creating an accepting and friendly atmosphere where the love of God is demonstrated.

Greeters: The greeter is the first person people meet as they walk to the door. They have an opportunity to reflect the care and love of Asbury to the members and visitors in our congregation.

Ushers: The usher is available to help the congregation and visitors alike to be fully immersed in their worship experience on Sunday morning. This may include handing out bulletins, assisting with seating, answering questions, providing directions to areas of the church, collecting the offering, and occasionally delivering communion.

Creating an atmosphere of worship that will literally change lives. While we seek to provide music with excellence, the ultimate goal is to draw one closer to Jesus Christ. Regardless of your current skill level, we will find a place for you to be a worship leader. We are always looking for liturgists, hosts, acolytes, choir members, band members, song leaders and vocalists, handbell players, and other musicians to provide special music.

Providing the love, acceptance, friendliness, and compassion of Christ to the visitor and to all those who come through the church doors with the purpose of assimilating them into the life and ministry of the church. We do this in many ways... here are some of them!

Asbury Connection Team
Pastor’s Breakfast
Attendance Follow-up
Guest Center
Prayer Ministry
Asbury Knitters
College Student Ministry
Funeral Dinners
Wedding Coordinators
Card Making
Pew Stewards
The Well
Library
Hospital Visitation
Nursing Home/Homebound Visitation
Calling and Care Ministries

Step 1: Take the Gifts & passions Survey

Step 2: Let us know you're ready to serve!

Meet the Staff

Nick Robinson

Pastor

Will Speaker

Children's Ministry Director

Kit Akins

CMO Director

Carol Tucker

Music Conservatory Director

Ed Bruenjes

Organist

Jennifer O'Connell

Office Administrator

Shawn Wadell

Financial Bookkeeper

Outreach Ministries

John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist movement, taught that we pursue our faith in community and action with others. We practice a social holiness. We insist that personal salvation always involves Christian mission and service to the world. The United Methodist Church has a long history of action and advocacy for social justice.
At Asbury, we are moving in our local community with such programs as Mission Columbus (our construction ministry), Pit Stop (taco church for high schoolers), and the Asbury Conservatory (free music lessons for kids). We support local efforts like Transformational Living Ministries (recovery ministry) and national efforts like the Appalachian Service Project with our Youth and Red Bird Mission. We support global mission efforts through the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) and a number of other mission organizations.

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Kids Ministries

The heart of kid's ministry at our church is to teach kids about who God is and how His word applies to their lives in creative and memorable ways. Through engaging teaching, supportive environments, and close knit small group classes, we guide kids towards a better understanding of what it means to have a real relationship with God. We want kids to know that the Bible is full of interesting stories that matter in their lives today, that fun and games are definitely allowed at church, that worship can be full of loud music and silly dancing, and that there are adults in the church who truly want to love and lead them closer to Jesus. In other words, we want them to know that where God is, life is a lot more fun!

Get Your Kids
Plugged In

cmo
day care

Kid's Church is a time for worship for 3 to 12 years olds at 11 am services. Kid's Church features songs, crafts, bible lessons, snacks, puppets and a bit of play time, all focused around your child and their special relationship with Jesus! Head to the Kids Check-in Station near fellowship circle before service to get checked-in and kids will be dismissed from the CWC. Kids in this class must be potty trained.

Youth Ministries

Student ministry is such a huge part of what we do at our church. We want to guide our students in developing a personal faith in Christ as they step into their specific roles in the story He's writing with their lives. We work hard to create environments that engage students in good conversation about God, encouraging them to ask questions, search out answers, and truly learn to listen to His leading in their lives. And maybe even have a little fun while they're at it! After all, if life in Christ is truly the best life we can live, shouldn't we encourage our students to enjoy living it to the fullest?

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Youth Calendar

Life Groups

Our life groups represent opportunities for all people to grow. Life is messy.Our small groups provide an opportunity to live life together and help each other through these messy times. New bible studies, Sunday school classes, small groups, and other life groups form and disband over time. To take a first step, we encourage you to join our open bible study on Wednesday nights at 6 pm. From there, we can get you plugged into other life groups that fit your interests.

Asbury Men is a ministry of Asbury that strives to provide all men with opportunities for service and fellowship.

Service takes many forms, including financial support for local Church needs, Scout Troops, global ministries and community charities. To support the projects, we raise funds by holding theme dinners and selling “locally grown fruit”. Asbury Men also provide sponsorship of the Family Fish Fry, Church Thanksgiving Dinner, Valentine Gala, Easter Brunch and other major events that bring us together.

The Asbury Men’s Group is informal, fun, and sincere about what is done. All men of the church are welcome to participate any time and all of the time.

On Sunday at 10:00 a.m., between the Traditional and Contemporary worship services, we gather together in small comfortable groups throughout the church, in order to study and discuss God’s word in a relaxed atmosphere of Christian fellowship and mutual support. All persons are welcome, no prior knowledge or experience is required, and there is no such thing as a dumb question!

Sunday School is a great way to help us connect the Bible to our busy modern lives. Our groups are informal in nature and tend to be organized by similar ages or interests. On a typical day, a group will focus on a particular Bible verse, chapter or lesson, and examine it in detail. This might be a stand-alone subject, or one in a series of studies. The material may be presented in print or video. The subject matter can be virtually any facet of God’s word and how it relates to our daily lives.

Not sure where to go? Just ask at the guest center and we will be happy to explain the options and help guide you to their study areas. It is also very acceptable to try a number of different Sunday School options to help you decide on the best fit for you. Gathering together informally in small groups to study and discuss God’s word is how the Church got its start thousands of years ago, and it is still the heartbeat of the Church today. Come join us!

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What We Believe

This next section is quoted from the 2016 Book of Discipline Articles of Religion.

The Son, who is the Word of the Father, the very and eternal God, of one substance with the Father, took man's nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin; so that two whole and perfect natures, that is to say, the Godhead and Manhood, were joined together in one person, never to be divided; whereof is one Christ, very God and very Man, who truly suffered, was crucified, dead, and buried, to reconcile his Father to us, and to be a sacrifice, not only for original guilt, but also for actual sins of men.

The Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation; so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man that it should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation. In the name of the Holy Scripture we do understand those canonical books of the Old and New Testament of whose authority was never any doubt in the church. The names of the canonical books are:

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, The First Book of Samuel, The Second Book of Samuel, The First Book of Kings, The Second Book of Kings, The First Book of Chronicles, The Second Book of Chronicles, The Book of Ezra, The Book of Nehemiah, The Book of Esther, The Book of Job, The Psalms, The Proverbs, Ecclesiastes or the Preacher, Cantica or Songs of Solomon, Four Prophets the Greater, Twelve Prophets the Less.

All the books of the New Testament, as they are commonly received, we do receive and account canonical.

The Old Testament is not contrary to the New; for both in the Old and New Testament everlasting life is offered to mankind by Christ, who is the only Mediator between God and man, being both God and Man. Wherefore they are not to be heard who feign that the old fathers did look only for transitory promises. Although the law given from God by Moses as touching ceremonies and rites doth not bind Christians, nor ought the civil precepts thereof of necessity be received in any commonwealth; yet notwithstanding, no Christian whatsoever is free from the obedience of the commandments which are called moral.

Voluntary works—besides, over and above God's commandments—which they call works of supererogation, cannot be taught without arrogancy and impiety. For by them men do declare that they do not only render unto God as much as they are bound to do, but that they do more for his sake than of bounden duty is required; whereas Christ saith plainly: When you have done all that is commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants.

Not every sin willingly committed after justification is the sin against the Holy Ghost, and unpardonable. Wherefore, the grant of repentance is not to be denied to such as fall into sin after justification. After we have received the Holy Ghost, we may depart from grace given, and fall into sin, and, by the grace of God, rise again and amend our lives. And therefore they are to be condemned who say they can no more sin as long as they live here; or deny the place of forgiveness to such as truly repent.

Sacraments ordained of Christ are not only badges or tokens of Christian men's profession, but rather they are certain signs of grace, and God's good will toward us, by which he doth work invisibly in us, and doth not only quicken, but also strengthen and confirm, our faith in him.

There are two Sacraments ordained of Christ our Lord in the Gospel; that is to say, Baptism and the Supper of the Lord.

Those five commonly called sacraments, that is to say, confirmation, penance, orders, matrimony, and extreme unction, are not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel; being such as have partly grown out of the corrupt following of the apostles, and partly are states of life allowed in the Scriptures, but yet have not the like nature of Baptism and the Lord's Supper, because they have not any visible sign or ceremony ordained of God.

The Sacraments were not ordained of Christ to be gazed upon, or to be carried about; but that we should duly use them. And in such only as worthily receive the same, they have a wholesome effect or operation; but they that receive them unworthily, purchase to themselves condemnation, as St. Paul saith.

The Supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the love that Christians ought to have among themselves one to another, but rather is a sacrament of our redemption by Christ's death; insomuch that, to such as rightly, worthily, and with faith receive the same, the bread which we break is a partaking of the body of Christ; and likewise the cup of blessing is a partaking of the blood of Christ.

Transubstantiation, or the change of the substance of bread and wine in the Supper of our Lord, cannot be proved by Holy Writ, but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions.

The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the Supper, only after a heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is faith.

The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was not by Christ's ordinance reserved, carried about, lifted up, or worshiped.

The offering of Christ, once made, is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual; and there is none other satisfaction for sin but that alone. Wherefore the sacrifice of masses, in the which it is commonly said that the priest doth offer Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain or guilt, is a blasphemous fable and dangerous deceit.

It is not necessary that rites and ceremonies should in all places be the same, or exactly alike; for they have been always different, and may be changed according to the diversity of countries, times, and men's manners, so that nothing be ordained against God's Word. Whosoever, through his private judgment, willingly and purposely doth openly break the rites and ceremonies of the church to which he belongs, which are not repugnant to the Word of God, and are ordained and approved by common authority, ought to be rebuked openly, that others may fear to do the like, as one that offendeth against the common order of the church, and woundeth the consciences of weak brethren.

Every particular church may ordain, change, or abolish rites and ceremonies, so that all things may be done to edification.

The President, the Congress, the general assemblies, the governors, and the councils of state, as the delegates of the people, are the rulers of the United States of America, according to the division of power made to them by the Constitution of the United States and by the constitutions of their respective states. And the said states are a sovereign and independent nation, and ought not to be subject to any foreign jurisdiction.

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Join us for our worship service, Sundays at 8:45 and 11am.
Or feel free to reach out and let's connect. We can't wait to meet you!

Service Times

Sunday Morning Worship
8:45 & 11 am

Location

1751 27th Street
Columbus, IN 47201

Email Us

asbury@asburycolumbus.org

Call Us

(812) 372-4555