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Post Office Box 297
121 Church Street
Mathews, Virginia 23109
 
Church Office: (804)725-2832
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Parsonage: (804)725-3332
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"I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord."
-- Psalm 122:1

      Welcome to Central United Methodist Church, a growing congregation, serving a rural community in scenic Mathews County, Virginia. Central offers worship and fellowship, as well as a close-knit, loving church family. The congregation seeks to serve God and the community through individual acts as well as its small groups, United Methodist Women and United Methodist Men.

      Central has been a visible presence in the community since 1873 and continues to worship God with song and preaching of the Word. Come and join the celebration of God's goodness and His love!

Worship and Sunday School

We worship on Sundays at 9:15 a.m. Sunday School is meeting in the church Fellowship Hall on Sundays at 10:15 a.m.  Online Sunday School for all ages begins at 10:30 a.m. on Zoom.  Our worship style is considered traditional, with responsive liturgies, dynamic hymns, powerful Scripture, and dynamic preaching. Our worship team keeps our services interesting and you will not want to miss a Sunday!

Weekly Schedule

Sunday Worship: 9:15 
(In-Person and on our YouTube Channel)
 
In-Person Sunday School: 10:15
  
 Please see the calendar for a schedule of all church activities.

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We have a YouTube channel!

 In addition to our in-person worship service, either live or a recorded video of our worship service is available weekly on Sundays at 9:15 a.m.  View the archive of these videos any time on our YouTube channel.

News From the United Methodist Church

  • Communicators in Africa serve on front lines of crises
    Trained in strategic communications by United Methodist Communications and Africa University, eight communicators share how they plan to use their new skills to serve communities facing conflict, disease and misinformation.
  • Communications program strengthens storytelling in Africa
    United Methodist communicators from all 14 of the church’s African episcopal areas received strategic communications training and certification through a partnership between Africa University and United Methodist Communications.
  • Planners set time for US Regional Conference
    Organizers are beginning to plan The United Methodist Church’s inaugural U.S. Regional Conference. While excited about the work, the group faces some big challenges.
  • When the doors were not yet open
    It’s been 25 years since the rollout of The United Methodist Church’s brand promise of “Open Hearts. Open Minds. Open Doors.” Despite controversy, it remains relevant today.
  • On the road with Rev. Adam Hamilton in Kansas
    The United Methodist pastor is traveling the state in his bid to become a U.S. senator. He’s trying to build a bipartisan base like the one he has enjoyed at Church of the Resurrection for 36 years.

More Church Resources...

The Daily Light

They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
  • He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. -- In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
  • Such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners. -- That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation.
  • Jesus of Nazareth ... went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. -- As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
  • That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. -- Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Isa 53:3; John 16:33; Heb 7:26; Phl 2:15; Acts 10:38; Gal 6:10; John 1:9; Matt 5:14,16