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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

  • Dog church welcomes people and pets
    A United Methodist church in Little Rock celebrates Earth Day by recognizing God’s care for his people and the pets they love.
  • Faith and hope power the EarthKeepers
    The EarthKeeper movement within The United Methodist Church celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, with about 450 graduates of its training program doing their best to make the environment safer for future generations.
  • Church leaders chart new future for bishops
    As they wait for a big decision by The United Methodist Church’s top court, church leaders say they are already collaborating like never before to strengthen the episcopacy.
  • Planners shorten GC2028, discuss Minneapolis
    Organizers are pressing forward with holding the 2028 United Methodist General Conference over eight days in Minneapolis. The group is also taking steps to protect delegates amid heightened immigration enforcement.
  • 4 church agencies propose unifying into one
    Four general agencies — United Methodist Communications, Discipleship Ministries, Global Ministries and Higher Education and Ministry — are making plans to become one. Legislation to unify the agencies will be going to General Conference.

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The Daily Light

The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
  • Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. -- David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. -- God will surelv visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. -- I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt. and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years. -- There failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel: all came to pass.
  • He is faithful that promised. -- Hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? -- Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away -- The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

Psa 62:8; 1 Sam 30: 6; Gen 50:24; Acts 7:34,36; Josh 21:45; Heb 10:23; Num 23:19; Matt 24:35; Isa 40:8