Happy Friday Central UMC!

Join us this Sunday for worship at Central UMC! Pastor Mary has been leading us through a powerful series on building community - through our prayers, our gifts, and all the unique ways God calls us to show up. This Sunday, we're exploring what it means to build community through service. We'd love for you to join us as we grow together.

We hope to see you this Sunday at 10am.

All are Welcome!

Stewardship Reminder

As we move toward the close of our stewardship season, we invite you to prayerfully consider your 2025 pledge. Your commitment helps Central plan faithfully and boldly for the ministries, missions, and community partnerships that shape our life together.

If you haven’t yet turned in your pledge card, you’re encouraged to bring it with you any Sunday through Nov. 23, and place it in the offering plate. You can also submit your pledge online at:

centralumc.org/GIVE by clicking the “Pledge” button—or click the button below.

Thank you for your generosity and for all the ways you support the mission and ministry of Central United Methodist Church. Your gifts truly make a difference.

Where You Can Help Your Neighbors

This Holiday Season

As we move into the holidays, here are some meaningful ways you can serve our neighbors, starting now. Thank you for being a church that shares Christ’s love in tangible, joyful ways.

1) 🎄Angel Tree Gift Collection (November): C4C is sponsoring gifts for 44 children—29 at Black Mountain Children’s Home and 15 at Central’s Mountain City Public Montessori (our largest outreach yet!). To learn more about the children, get all the details and sign up, please visit: bit.ly/C4CAngelTree2025 or scan the QR Code.

Gifts need to be delivered by Sunday, November 30.

Contact Jill Dudley at c4c@centralumc.org with any questions.

28 adopted—16 still to go!

2) Kairos Prison Ministry (November Collection): Help share Christmas joy with inmates and staff at Craggy Correctional Center. You can help by donating boxed cookies, candy, nuts, gum, or 16-ounce bottled drinks—all store-bought and unopened. (Please, no homemade goods, fruit, cosmetics, or money.) A donation box is in the Fellowship Hall. Questions? Contact Stewart Humphrey at jshumphrey1@hotmail.com.

3) UWF Circles & ABCCM: All the UWF Circles are planning service projects, specifically supporting ABCCM & C4C Angel Tree. Want more info about UWF? Go to: centralumc.org/uwf.

With SNAP benefits in danger, ABCCM needs your food donations. What you leave in the big wooden tub each Sunday is picked up and delivered to ABCCM on Monday. Everything is welcome. If you want to donate fresh items bring them to the Crisis Ministry at 24 Cumberland Ave.

Buncombe County is asking for food to help feed our neighbors until SNAP is restored. Items can be dropped off at the Public Libraries in Buncombe County. The food that is collected will go to MANNA. If you buy canned goods, be sure they have a pop top on them. Not everyone has a can opener.

Angel Tree Gift Collection | November Collection

C4C needs your help spreading Christmas joy again this year as we provide Christmas gifts for local children in need and living in foster care for the 8th year in a row! We are partnering with Black Mountain Children's Home to sponsor gifts for 29 foster children. We will also be providing gifts for 15 children from Central’s own Mountain City Public Montessori School for the first time. This is the most children we have ever been able to sponsor at once, and we need your help to make it happen!

Sign up in person on Sundays in November outside the sanctuary or online. To learn more about the children, get all the details and sign up, please visit: bit.ly/C4CAngelTree2025

Gifts need to be delivered by Sunday, November 30th.

Contact Jill Dudley at c4c@centralumc.org with any questions.

What an extraordinary night! On Wednesday evening, more than 160 members and friends of our Central community came together for our first friendsGIVING: Missions Council Fundraiser. What a celebration it was. The room was filled with energy, laughter, and generosity from beginning to end.

We enjoyed delicious food prepared by the Equal Plates Project, great live music from the Scenic Radio Band, and a silent auction that kept the room buzzing all night long. The live auction brought even more fun-spirited bidding, friendly competition, and plenty of memorable moments.

Thanks to your generosity, we are thrilled to share that together we raised over $25,000 to support the many ministries and partner organizations served by Central UMC’s Missions Council. From local food insecurity initiatives to global outreach efforts, your gifts will extend Christ’s love far beyond our walls and into the lives of neighbors near and far.

Thank you to every attendee, volunteer, sponsor, donor, and bidder who helped make this evening such a success. Your support truly makes a difference, and we are grateful for the ways you continue to live out Christ’s call to serve.

With heartfelt thanks,

Central UMC Missions Council

E-newsletter #624