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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

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  • 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.

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The Daily Light

Patient in tribulation.
  • It is the Lord: let him do what seemeth him good. -- Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge. -- The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. -- What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?
  • Jesus wept. -- A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.
  • Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. -- Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness. -- In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

1 Sam 3:18; Job 9:15; Job 1:21; Job 2:10; John 11:35; Isa 53:3,4; Heb 12:6,11; Col L:11; John 16:33