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CENTRAL TIME
The weekly e-newsletter of
Central United Methodist Church
All are welcome!
April 24, 2024
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Sunday, April 28, 2024
Fifth Sunday of Easter
11:00 AM
Scripture Reading: Acts 8:26-40
Sermon title: A STRANGE ENCOUNTER
Hymns: 384 & 578
Cam Treece, Preacher
*Called Charge Conference meeting this Sunday immediately following the worship service in the Upper Room Sunday School classroom.
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April 28
Greeters
Brenda Hanna (Church Street Entrance)
Kim Retherford (Courtyard Entrance)
Jeff and Julie Lane (Portico)
Nursery Workers
Jennifer Killian and Jan Richards
Thank you for serving in the nursery, greeting and welcoming members and visitors who worship with us on Sundays.
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The Upper Room Sunday School Class
Watch Recording
Password: UpperRoom4.21.24
April
28 Lynn Karegeannes - Labyrinth
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Tuesday Bible Class
5pm (Fellowship Hall)
You are invited to join us!
We are reading the Gospel of Matthew.
All are welcome! - Andy Crosland, teacher
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Sacred Traditions And Rituals
Sunday, April 28, 6:00 PM
Creation Care Enablers
a service devoted to earth and spirit
Good environmental stewardship has a significant overlap with good economic stewardship. We are divinely created to depend on God's creation for our material existence. For the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, and the raw materials we use for everything else.
Creation includes the natural environment, the built environment (our houses, cities, and economies) and all the creatures that depend on those environments. We have been charged with safeguarding the fruitfulness and productivity of creation for all its inhabitants, including people - enabling creation to flourish at its very best.
In celebrating Earth Day, our service will celebrate the spirit of the earth and those Creation Care Enablers who understand this charge.
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Wednesday Night Supper
May 1, 5:30 PM
Menu
Chili, Vegetable Pasta, Salad, Dessert, Bread, Tea & Coffee
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Birthdays
April
24 Kathy Quackenbush
25 Bralyn Crocker
27 Carl King
28 Richard Booth
29 Michael Henson
May
1 Sherrill King, Fran Racine
5 Hunter Booth, Jennifer Hasty
6 Janet McConnell
7 Walden Shoolbred, Andrew Wolfe
9 John Coggins, Elizabeth Smith, Angie Wyatt
13 Sawyer Zimmerman
14 Carolyn Rickenbaker
15 David Wood
16 Haiden Lancaster, Leslie Newman, Peter Sereque
18 Carol Kyllonen, George Vess IV
20 Benita Stavely
22 Carolyn Sparks
23 Lindsay Taylor
25 Barry Johnson
26 Mike Ayers
27 Nolton Keefe, Zachary Rawlinson
28 Linda Bilanchone
30 Thomas Bridges
31 Kaydee Crocker, David Earl Shelley
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This Week-end
Friday, April 26 - Sunday, April 28
The Building Fund Raising Committee plans to raise some money by selling parking spaces during Spartanburg’s Spring Fling. We will use Central’s parking lot and the lot across Church Street. We need volunteers on Friday evening, April 26th, all day Saturday, April 27th, and after church on Sunday, April 28th. Each shift will be 3 to 4 hours and about 40 volunteers are needed to cover the necessary times.
If you are willing to help with this project, please call the church office (582-7263) and leave a message or send an email to: Gina Hamer.
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Welcome Tammy!
Tammy Eaves joined the Central staff back in August '23 as the financial secretary of Central Church and decided in January '24 to take on a full-time job in Union, SC as well as doing the work of Central part-time, remotely and after hours. She is now officially back in the church office, Monday -Wednesday from 9:00-2:00 PM. Tammy has two children and 4 grandchildren, and her husband is a minister. She taught elementary grades in private schools for 25 years and she has worked in accounting for at least 20 years!
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Altar Flowers
Please contact:
Kathy Worley, Memorial Secretary, to place flowers on the calendar. Thank you!
Call: (864) 978-0294
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Please
pray for. . .
Members
Joanie Bilton, Thomas Bridges, Dave & Eloise Clyburn, Jim Hasty, Mary Hines, Doris Wilson & Mike Johnson, Joan Johnson, Sue Lowe, Jimmy Painter, Bob Perrin, Carolyn Rickenbaker, Barbara Ropp, Becky Smith, & Wyatt family
Family & Friends
Adrianne, Beverly, Dwight, Jeff, Mary Beth (friends of Claudia Lange, Luther Rickenbaker's step-daughter), Greg Brown (relative of Dexter Bridges), Mark Campbell (friend of Luther Rickenbaker), Dee Dee Cantrell (friend of Paul & Sue Lansberry), David Harling (friend of Patricia Painter), Caroline Broyles Henson, Megan Kendall (friend of Nonie & Kathy Hudnall), Sheila Lindsey (friend of Patricia Painter), Jane McKenzie, Arthur Mullins (Louise Parris's brother), Wendy Nicklin (Hariette & Loral Stinson's friend), Robbie Sholde, Griffin Rousseau and family (friends of Marty and Susan Taylor), Rachel Thompson (friend of Marty and Susan Taylor), Caroline Vizzuto (friend of David Earl and Jeannie Shelley's family), Ann Willard, Judy Workman, Becky Wyatt’s mother, and Lee Wylie
Members’ Extended Family
Martha Bordogna (surgery on May 8th), Donna Copeland (Chuck Clark’s mother) Betty Jackson (Kay Lawrence’s mother), Ashley Parker (Kay & Jack Lawrence's son-in-law) and Martha Petoskey
In Assisted Living or Nursing Homes
Kathy Cann, Gladys Hudgens, Mildred Ragan, & Tom Wilkes
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2024 Annual Conference -
Greenville Convention Center, Greenville, SC
June 9-11
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Church Announcements for
Central Time or Sunday bulletin
If you have an announcement that you would like to appear in the Central Time, Sunday bulletins, on social media, or on the church's website, please submit that information to: info@centralumcspartanburg.org before noon on Mondays. Thank you!
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Ways to Give to Central
We continue to be deeply grateful for continued support of the mission and ministry of Central Church. There are a few ways to continue to make offerings extremely easy.
- The US mail always works. We are at 233 North Church St., Spartanburg, SC 29306.
- Contact the Financial Secretary to set up a recurring gift through an automatic bank draft.
- VANCO Mobile
- On the homepage on the church's website there is a "Give" link. Once you set up that app any additional gifts are as easy as one or two clicks.
Central United Methodist Church
Website
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Lifelong
Learning at Wofford
Wofford Lifelong Learning
Email us at . . .
lifelonglearning@wofford.edu
(864) 274-2917
Director, Lucy Woodhouse
Jenny Smart, Program Assistant
Lifelong Learning at Wofford
864-274-2917 (main)
864-597-5304 (direct)
Website: Lifelong Learning at Wofford
Spring Term 2024 - March 18-May 10
Lifelong Learning Spring Schedule
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If you have any news to share of a birth or death in your family in the Central Time
e-newsletter, please email Gina Hamer, Central's Administrative Assistant or call the church office at (864) 582-7263.
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LET'S STAY CONNECTED!
Central (864) 582-7263
Facebook
Central's website
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Central United Methodist
founded 1837
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Palmetto Moravian Fellowship
The next worship service with the Moravians is scheduled for Sunday, May 5, at 9:00 AM in the Cannon Memorial Chapel - Central UMC.
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Central Office Hours:
Monday through Friday
9:00am-2:00pm
Mission Statement:
"Our purpose is making
and nurturing disciples of Jesus Christ."
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Get text notifications from Central
To sign up, text the word "Central" to 864-661-4726. After texting the keyword to this phone number, you will receive a reply asking for some simple info. Please click the link, include your name, and submit the form. You will be signed up! Any questions, contact Rev. Paige Wolfe.
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