Central United Methodist Church

THERE IS NO WOW Wednesday, April 16th. (Spring Break)

 

Fresh Flowers for the Cross on Easter Sunday

You are encouraged to bring fresh flowers to church on Easter Sunday and place them on the cross in the front of the sanctuary.

 

Lenten Offering

Don't forget that we will be collecting our Lenten Offering on Easter Sunday! This offering will be going to the Pigeon Community Multicultural Development Center to support their work in the community!

 

New Design T-Shirt Orders

Please see Erin Gamez or Pam Kearse to order T-shirts. For these to be back in time for our Annual “Down The Hill” Sunday May 18th we need to have orders in by Tuesday, April 15th. Thanks!

 

Easter Flowers

We are now taking orders for Easter Flowers. This year the cost is $15 and this supports our Choir Fund. You can fill out an order form on Sunday mornings or you can call or email the church office to order flowers in honor or memory of a loved one. Deadline to order is Tuesday, April 15th. Flowers will be placed in the sanctuary on Easter Sunday, April 20th.

 

New A/C unit for the sanctuary.

Our Trustees recently recommended to the Leadership team to replace the existing A/C units, and the Leadership team unanimously approved this motion. The new system will be installed soon!

 

Ministry Team

We are excited to announce the formation of a Ministry Team. There will be various ways for you to be involved and serve our church family and community. One of the first opportunities is helping with community meals that are served at Clyde Central UMC. Allison Suttles is excited to lead this new ministry so please see her to get involved or to get any questions answered! We look forward to the ways this team can lead us in being active in our faith!

 

150th Anniversary of Central UMC

2025 marks the 150th anniversary of Central UMC. We hope to organize several 150th activities prior to a major celebratory event next fall. If you would like to serve on the organizing team, please contact Pastor Tom, co-chairs Ralph Caldwell or Tom McNeel. . All are welcome to be a part of this team!

 

Sunday Morning Lenten Study

Join us Sunday mornings at 10:00 am. Linda Masters will be leading this study in the Koinonia classroom. Everyone is invited!

 

The Road to Victory

What does victory look like? When we think about the term, we might recall beating another team in sports or passing a difficult test in life. Often, we think of competition or even conflict when we consider the idea. As Christians, we often talk about having victory in Christ. We celebrate that Christ was ultimately victorious over sin and death. This Lenten season, we are going to walk alongside Christ on his road to victory in a new sermon series called The Road to Victory. In this series we will see that victory often takes on a variety of meanings in different circumstances. By exploring what a life of victory looks like through a variety of Gospel passages, we can begin to discover how we can live out our own little victories as well. Please join us for this engaging series as we build up to Christs ultimate victory of resurrection on Easter Sunday. See you in church!

 

Community Lenten Services

The community Lenten services are held each Thursday. The service begins at 12 noon at Canton First UMC (155 Newfound Street). A light lunch follows at 12:30. Services will be each Thursday thru April 17th. The speaker for April 17th is James Marsh.

 

Three-Hour Challenge

We hope everyone is participating in Pastor Tom’s three-hour challenge for the remainder of Lent-and hopefully beyond. Each week try to spend one hour in worship, one hour in spiritual growth, and one hour serving others.

 

Graduate Recognition

We are excited to recognize our graduates this year on Sunday May 4th. If you are graduating, or you know of a graduate, please reach out to the church so we can make sure we don’t miss anyone! This recognition is for any graduate within our church family from preschool, high school, college, graduate school or anyone who has completed a certificate program this school year or has graduated since last year’s recognition.