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Contact Us

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

  • As US 250th nears, bishops discuss democracy
    United Methodist bishops and scholars from around the world examined Christian faith and democracy at the spring Council of Bishops meeting. The discussions came as democracy faces threats around the world.
  • Church supports Congolese refugees in Burundi
    The United Methodist Church, with support from UMCOR, provides vital infrastructure and food to the Musenyi camp, which has doubled its population because of ongoing conflicts in eastern Congo.
  • Remembering Pharis Harvey, global human rights advocate
    A United Methodist pastor and missionary, Harvey helped bring international attention to South Korea’s pro-democracy movement and spent decades advancing labor rights worldwide. He died April 16 at age 91.
  • Why the 1956 women-clergy vote matters
    Seventy years ago, the Methodist Church supported full conference membership for women clergy — a decision that would have a resounding impact when The United Methodist Church formed in 1968 and even today.
  • Madang marks 10th anniversary with renewed vision
    Over the past decade, CRCC Madang has grown into a vital support network for Korean American clergy navigating cross-cultural ministry.

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The Daily Light

Ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled.
  • God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. -- Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. -- In the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. -- Your life is hid with Christ in God.
  • He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting the Lord.
  • These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Psa 46:1-3; Isa 26:20,21; Psa 57:1; Col 3:3; Psa 112:7; John 16:33