Our Vision

The Transformation of the world into the peaceful and just creation God intended for all.

Our mission

To live out the healing and liberating message of Christ, queer the status quo, and confront all forms of injustice and oppression.

What is HA:N?

The Korean word Han doesn’t have a direct English translation, but it describes a feeling of sorrow borne through oppression and perseverance, combined with a sense of hope that one day there will be unity and liberation. HA:N United Methodist Church is a new faith community formed by lay people whose questions, doubts, differing opinions, and even identities have not always been welcome within their existing church contexts. 

Formed by Korean americans. welcoming to all.

We claim this part of our identity explicitly because we believe it is important for all people to acknowledge their histories and identities and that this can never be disconnected from who one is as a person of faith. We are open to all, and therefore hope to encourage all people, Koreans and other ethnicities alike, to be able to bring their whole selves into this community. As such, we are a congregation of various ethnic and racial identities. We desire to celebrate your identity as you walk this journey with us. 

Our theology

As a Christian church within the United Methodist denomination, our congregation inevitably looks to Scripture as a sacred text that forms and shapes our faith community. We do not see it as an answer book or a history book. We see it as a spiritual guide and a story of humanity seeking the divine and the way in which the divine is already with us. We believe the text itself is open to interpretation and that we engage the text using our reason, experience, traditions, and the movement of the Holy Spirit. 

As Wesleyans we are committed to doing no harm, doing good, and attending to our spiritual practices together as a community of faith. Many of us at HA:N hold differing views on many doctrines. Yet we are one community, bound together not by uniformity of doctrines and beliefs, but by striving to live out together Jesus’ greatest commandment - to love God and to love our neighbor as ourselves (Mark 12:30-31). Ultimately, we believe that God desires the liberation of the world.

Thus, we are followers of the way of Jesus, committed to the vision of a just and peaceful world as God intended. We are committed to living out the healing and liberating message of Jesus Christ, queering the status quo, and confronting all forms of injustice and oppression.