Friday, April 9, 2021
Sunday Morning Worship
11:00 a.m.


This Sunday Rev. Drew Willson will be preaching.
His sermon is titled Held in Common.

News from the
Healthy Church Team (HCT)
Hi wonderful Centenary family,

The Healthy Church Team met on April 7th to discuss when to consider holding in-person worship at CUMC. As more of us have been fully vaccinated, we are reviewing Covid statistics to recommend a time to be together again. We would prefer that our clergy, staff and choir be fully vaccinated.

We discussed and agreed to hold an outdoor service on Sunday, May 23rd, to mark the special occasion of confirmation for six of our outstanding Centenary youth: George Thrower, John Thrower, John Stottlemyer, Thomas Stottlemyer, Stella Vetrovec, and Whit Vetrovec. We plan to close off the street in front of the church for this special service.

The plan is to begin in-person worship in the sanctuary sometime in June (possibly every other week). The HCT will keep you posted as we know that we are all ready to return to our beautiful church with our Centenary family.

Love and blessings,
Your Healthy Church Team – Matt Bates, Bob Almond, Jim Hill, Karen Junker, Susan Thomas, Meredith Thrower (legal liaison) and Jim Wickham (physician liaison)
Dear Centenary,

We look forward to a time of conversation with our Virginia Conference Reconciling Communities and Congregations on Sunday, April 18 at 3 p.m. on Zoom. Here is the agenda for our time together with some questions for discussion we hope you might consider before our gathering. 

Below is a link to register for this meeting. Please register by April 15. We will email the Zoom link before Sunday, April 18 to registered participants.
Young Adults Gathering

With the arrival of spring, millions of vaccinations happening each day, and a light at the end of our pandemic tunnel, let's take time to gather again.

We'll meet behind the VMFA on TODAY, Friday, April 9 at 6:15 p.m. Let's meet at Chloe the Wonder Head, and then find a place to sit down together to catch up, enjoy holy company, and bask in the light of Easter resurrection. You're welcome to bring food or get some there.

I'm looking forward to seeing you all. Please let me know if you have any questions or other thoughts. ~ Drew drewwillson@vaumc.org
UMW - Smethie Circle
Wednesday, April 21 at 4:00 p.m.

Barrett Brown will be our speaker for the April UMW meeting. She will summarize the rest of the book
We look forward to you joining us!

Zoom Link - - Passcode - 352884
Richmond's Unhealed History
A group from Centenary’s recent book study on Rev. Ben Campbell’s Richmond's Unhealed History walked the Richmond Slave Trail on Saturday, April 3. (http://www.richmondgov.com/CommissionSlaveTrail/)

It was a very moving and powerful experience to walk this path and to have a glimpse into the untold and unhealed tragic history of slavery in this region. The group was so blessed to meet Rev. Ben Campbell near the end of the walk for deeper discussion at the archeological site of Lumpkin’s Slave Trail, which is also the future site of a National Museum: https://www.lumpkinsjail.org/.
Weekly Bible Study
Wednesday mornings at 10:00 a.m.
Please join us as we look at the scripture for the upcoming Sunday. We meet together via Zoom for study and fellowship. The Zoom link will be sent via email on Tuesday. We look forward to seeing you there.
The Upper Room available as a PDF
The Upper Room is continuing to support their standing order partners with a PDF of the March/April issue! You may download your copy here.
April 9 (today) @ 6:15 p.m. Young Adults Gathering at VMFA
April 14 @ 10 a.m. Bible Study - Passcode 275151
April 21 @ 10 a.m. Bible Study - Passcode 275151
April 21 @ 4 p.m. UMW - Smethie Circle - Passcode 352884

All events are on Zoom unless otherwise noted.