Sunday Morning Worship
During this time of social distancing, our Sunday morning worship services are being held online.
Audio and video versions of the services will be posted here each week.
Join The Spartanburg Interfaith Alliance for An Interfaith Service of Grief and Action
Friday, June 5, 2020, 5:30 PM
Hosted by Congregation B'nai Israel
The service will also be live streamed here.
Click here to read more.
A note from our pastor regarding worship:
Our bishop, Jonathan Holston, has asked that we not meet in person before June 14.
We plan to meet for worship in Central Park at 9:00 AM on Sunday, June 14.
We will move indoors only when the infection rate allows.
Audio and video versions of the services will be posted here each week.
Join The Spartanburg Interfaith Alliance for An Interfaith Service of Grief and Action
Friday, June 5, 2020, 5:30 PM
Hosted by Congregation B'nai Israel
The service will also be live streamed here.
Click here to read more.
A note from our pastor regarding worship:
Our bishop, Jonathan Holston, has asked that we not meet in person before June 14.
We plan to meet for worship in Central Park at 9:00 AM on Sunday, June 14.
We will move indoors only when the infection rate allows.
Meditation and Mindfulness
with Dr. John Simmons
Feeling stressed about the virus and its health, economic and social effects? Join John Simmons for a time of meditation and mindfulness activity designed to deal with stress. These meditation sessions will meet on Sunday evenings at 6:00pm in Central Park, where there is room for social distancing.
John is certified as a Mind Body Skills Trainer by the Center for Mind Body Medicine in Washington DC. In the past 12 years, John has led dozens of workshops using mindfulness to help cancer patients, patients with chronic pain, patients with post traumatic stress disease and people with varying degrees of anxiety and mild to moderate depression. There will be no fee and no meditation experience is required. The experience will be open to anyone.
Past sessions are posted here.
with Dr. John Simmons
Feeling stressed about the virus and its health, economic and social effects? Join John Simmons for a time of meditation and mindfulness activity designed to deal with stress. These meditation sessions will meet on Sunday evenings at 6:00pm in Central Park, where there is room for social distancing.
John is certified as a Mind Body Skills Trainer by the Center for Mind Body Medicine in Washington DC. In the past 12 years, John has led dozens of workshops using mindfulness to help cancer patients, patients with chronic pain, patients with post traumatic stress disease and people with varying degrees of anxiety and mild to moderate depression. There will be no fee and no meditation experience is required. The experience will be open to anyone.
Past sessions are posted here.
Worship and Study Online
Unable to join us on Sunday morning? You can worship with us online here!
Pastor Tom Norrell leads a Wednesday Night Prayer and Study Time on Zoom each Wednesday evening at 6:30pm. While meeting on Zoom, we will hear each others’ concerns and joys and then pray together. Each Wednesday, we will look at an article from “Ask the Rev.” by Don Welch. Don was the chaplain at Wofford College and later the President of Scarritt College. In retirement, he wrote a weekly newspaper article answering a question sent in by readers. We will be able to pause and entertain your questions and comments. We will close our time together with a form of Christian meditation called Lectio Divina. The Zoom link to join can be found in the church's weekly newsletter and eblasts. Please contact us if you would like to join!
The Upper Room Sunday School class meets weekly on Zoom at 10:00am on Sunday mornings. Currently, the Upper Room is using Unafraid: Living with Courage and Hope in Uncertain Times by Adam Hamilton as a basis for their lessons and discussion. If you would like to join this weekly Zoom gathering, please contact Paige Wolfe.
We also have a new resource for participating in Bible studies online! Amplify Media is a way we can interact with studies while away from the church building. Please use the website below to create your account. You can find our church's access code in an email from the church. If you are unable to find the code, send us a message.
my.amplifymedia.com/amplify
Pastor Tom Norrell leads a Wednesday Night Prayer and Study Time on Zoom each Wednesday evening at 6:30pm. While meeting on Zoom, we will hear each others’ concerns and joys and then pray together. Each Wednesday, we will look at an article from “Ask the Rev.” by Don Welch. Don was the chaplain at Wofford College and later the President of Scarritt College. In retirement, he wrote a weekly newspaper article answering a question sent in by readers. We will be able to pause and entertain your questions and comments. We will close our time together with a form of Christian meditation called Lectio Divina. The Zoom link to join can be found in the church's weekly newsletter and eblasts. Please contact us if you would like to join!
The Upper Room Sunday School class meets weekly on Zoom at 10:00am on Sunday mornings. Currently, the Upper Room is using Unafraid: Living with Courage and Hope in Uncertain Times by Adam Hamilton as a basis for their lessons and discussion. If you would like to join this weekly Zoom gathering, please contact Paige Wolfe.
We also have a new resource for participating in Bible studies online! Amplify Media is a way we can interact with studies while away from the church building. Please use the website below to create your account. You can find our church's access code in an email from the church. If you are unable to find the code, send us a message.
my.amplifymedia.com/amplify
Central United Methodist Church is a vibrant downtown church located in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The historic building faces North Church Street and is located just south of the Marriott. For our address and a map, go here.
The histories of Spartanburg, Central UMC, and Wofford College have been closely intertwined since the church was founded 180 years ago. Today, Central is still a vital part of the community, ministering to our neighbors and friends while making and nurturing disciples of Jesus Christ.
The histories of Spartanburg, Central UMC, and Wofford College have been closely intertwined since the church was founded 180 years ago. Today, Central is still a vital part of the community, ministering to our neighbors and friends while making and nurturing disciples of Jesus Christ.
You are welcome here.
Central United Methodist Church is committed to loving God and loving neighbor with our whole selves--heart, mind, soul, and strength. We believe that all persons are of sacred worth and dignity as part of God's creation, as demonstrated by the ministry of Jesus Christ. We therefore welcome all persons into the life and ministry of our congregation. We welcome, affirm, and celebrate people of all races, cultures, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, gender identities, socioeconomic status, education, physical and mental abilities, or faith histories.
Central United Methodist Church is committed to loving God and loving neighbor with our whole selves--heart, mind, soul, and strength. We believe that all persons are of sacred worth and dignity as part of God's creation, as demonstrated by the ministry of Jesus Christ. We therefore welcome all persons into the life and ministry of our congregation. We welcome, affirm, and celebrate people of all races, cultures, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, gender identities, socioeconomic status, education, physical and mental abilities, or faith histories.
