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Stewardship 2024

Dear Friends in Christ, October 15 is our Commitment Sunday, when will celebrate our theme for this year’s stewardship campaign—Join the Team! The CUMC Team!—and you will be invited to make your estimate of giving toward the ministry of Central United Methodist Church! As an act of worship, you will be asked to bring your commitment card to the front of the Sanctuary and place it on the Communion Table. As we work toward meaningful ministry in a post-pandemic world,…

Stewardship 2023

I love stained glass windows and I have loved the beautiful windows in our church sanctuary since becoming your pastor nine years ago. Our windows teach about the life of Jesus and the many facets of his earthly ministry. Christians have long had a positive relationship with light, and as light illuminates our beautiful windows, we celebrate Jesus Christ as the light of the world. We are inspired to be more like Jesus, sharing love and compassion, seeking justice, and…

Online Giving is Changing

Please Update Your Online Giving App by January 31st If you give online through the GivePlus App, please be aware that Vanco (the app developer) is retiring that app on January 31st, 2022, and moving to a new app. Before that date, please download and install the new app. To get it, go to Google Play (Android) or the App Store (Apple) and search for “Vanco Mobile.” Download the app called “Vanco Mobile Faith Engagement.” If you have been giving…

Trustees Spring Clean Up Day

Saturday, June 5, 2021, 9 am-Noon Help us get the church and grounds ready for summer. We’re looking for volunteers to complete a variety of fix-it and maintenance tasks. Please use the form below to indicate your interest in a specific task, or select No Preference. While we will attempt to match you with your preferred task, you may be assigned to a different task. Thank you for your support!

Generosity 2020

During the four messages of our Jesus and We campaign, we considered what it would mean to be faith-filled, big-thinking, bet the farm risk-taking followers of Christ, asked whether we are spiritual consumers or spiritual contributors, explored what it means to be irrationally generous, and examined what it looks like to do anything (short of sin) to change our world with the love of Christ. In his greeting to the people of Philippi (Philippians 1:3-7), Paul recognized that the people…
2018 Stewardship Study Book

2018 Stewardship Study

Earn. Save. Give: Wesley’s Simple Rules for Money by James A. Harnish John Wesley boils fiscal responsibilities down to just three rules: Earn all you can. Save all you can. Give all you can. Sounds simple, right? Yes, but not easy, especially in today’s culture of consumerism. This twenty-first century translation of Wesley’s money management philosophy will give everyone in a new way to think about money. Join us for this 2018 stewardship study! There will be three options for…
Defying Gravity - 2017 Stewardship Central Methodist Church

Defying Gravity

2017 Stewardship This year’s stewardship campaign involves the study of Pastor Tom Berlin’s book Defying Gravity: Break Free from the Culture of More. In his book, Berlin discusses the pull of “financial gravity” on our lives and how to change this perspective and see generosity as a deliberate practice that actually moves us closer to God through stewardship of His Kingdom. I invite you to join us as we work through Berlin’s book during study group and Sunday messages to…