June 21, 2024

Sundays at 10:30am

In person and online.

TOMORROW!!

Saturday June 22 at 9:30am

We will hold a packaging event for Rise Against Hunger (RAH). This will be the second event this year. As you know, hunger is a serious problem around the world, this is especially true now as grain shipments from Ukraine have ceased due to the Russian blockade. RAH reports that Centenary has shipped 223,952 meals including those shipped under Stop Hunger Now. The meals we packaged in January went to the Philippines and Uganda.



Please join us and help add 10,000 meals

to the total of this outreach project.

Virginia Annual Conference Offering 2024

Last Sunday, Reverend Bob Blinn shared about the effort he and others are involved with through the Holy Rollers, a cycling group from the Virginia Conference, to raise money for the Virginia Annual Conference Offering. Bob and other clergy and laity will be riding about 160 miles this year to call attention to the Conference Offering. If you have an interest in learning more about this group and how you might be involved in it, you can read more here:  United Methodist Holy Rollers.

This year, the Conference will support two causes.   The first one is supporting the ongoing connectional work with our VAUMC Partnerships of Hope countries: Brazil, Mozambique, Cambodia, Haiti, Vietnam, and Native American Ministries. The other half of our offering will be given towards our conference-wide Undue Medical Debt Campaign (formerly RIP Medical Debt) to help eliminate medical debt in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is our hope that through this debt campaign, we are able to raise $390,000 that would help eliminate $39 million of medical debt that continues to hurt the most vulnerable in Virginia. This campaign will start with the Annual Conference offering and continue through the end of the calendar year.  

Here is a link with a short video about the Conference Offering:

2024 Annual Conference Offering (youtube.com)

To give, you can make your contribution to Centenary by check with "Conference Offering" in the memo line or by giving online through Realm here. (Choose Conference Offering in the Fund pull down menu.) Watch for more information about these two causes in weeks to come. 

Shalom Farms Events

For more information visit

https://shalomfarms.org/events/openhouse/

AND

Virtual Chats with their Executive Director

Änna Ibrahim

Church Picnic/

Cornhole Tournament 

June 30 at 4:00pm

Byrd Park, Carillon Shelter

Come celebrate summer at our annual CUMC Church Picnic! This year we've added something new...a Cornhole Tournament! Team registration fee is $20 per team. Half the proceeds will go to the winning team, and half will go to Rise Against Hunger. As always, please bring your best dish to share- and a friend! All are welcome. 

Potluck Sign-up will be on the bulletin board downstairs.

Register/pay for your Cornhole team HERE. If you would like to pay online, use Realm-Rise Against Hunger is the third one down on the pull down list.

Delaney Spiker graduated from Randolph-Macon College with a BA in English with minors in Secondary Education and Philosophy. In August She will be teaching 8th grade ELA at Norris Middle in Anderson, Tennessee. 

Libbie White graduated from VCU with a Bachelor's Degree

Congratulations and Best Wishes for a Bright Future!

Richmond Shakespeare presents

Doctor Faustus

We have the pleasure of hosting rehearsals for Richmond Shakespeare. In exchange, they offer tickets to their programs. Currently they are rehearsing Doctor Faustus, which will open on July 4 at Agecroft Hall. You can find out more about the play here. If you would like tickets, please contact the church office.

Zoom Bible Study

Summer Break

We will take a break until the beginning of August. We will see you then!

Online Giving Made Easy

Use the QR code to quickly get to

our online giving page.