Join Us for the 2023 Fall Festival on Saturday, October 21from 3:00-5:30 p.m. We will have Trunk-or-Treat, Refreshments, and Fun and Games for All Ages!
Please RSVP below if you plan to attend.
The following items are needed if you would like to contribute to the Fall Festival:
pumpkins (small, medium, large)
craft paint
paint brushes
clear plastic cups
corn starch
food coloring
Ziploc sandwich bags
Monetary donations can be made directly to the church. Please designate “For Youth Ministry” in the comments or memo section if writing a check.
Trunk or Treat volunteers are also needed.
Please contact Robin Mathews: (mathews.robina@gmail.com) or call the church office at 901-774-7604 if you have questions.
Beginning on September 27th, at 6:00 p.m. we will meet for our first Wednesday Night Bible Study. This bible study, “The Bible and Its Influence on Contemporary Literature” led by Pastor Keith Caldwell, will meet in the E. J. Cox Hall and online.
As we kick off this new class, we will have light refreshments at 5:00 p.m. and begin a review of the selected book, “Jesus and the Disinherited” by Howard Thurman.
All are welcome to attend! Register below or call the church office at 901-774-7604 for more information.
Centenary’s Men’s Day featuring Rep. Justin J. Pearson
You are invited to join us on Sunday, September 24, 2023, during our 10:30 a.m. Worship Services for Men’s Day! We are excited to announce that our keynote speaker will be Rep. Justin J. Pearson, District 86 State Representative.
Theme: “Remembrance, Rescue, & Resurgence”.
We are calling everyone to come fellowship and worship with us!
Swelling, which can lead to difficulty breathing or swallowing
Shortness of breath or wheezing
Pain in your belly
Chest tightness
Dizziness
Vomiting
Confusion
Severe hives or rash
Overreaction response can lead to inflammation (which can cut off breathing) and a widening of blood vessels (which can drop blood pressure to dangerous levels).
The medication works to constrict (narrow) dilated (widened) blood vessels to help your blood pressure rebound and bring down swelling. It also relaxes muscles in your lungs to open up airways and make breathing a bit easier.
The needle on an auto-injector is designed to go through jeans or pants.
The dosage is different between children and adults, but the delivery technique is exactly the same. Just jab the thigh and let the epinephrine release. Each auto-injector is filled with a prescribed amount of medication.
It’s always a good idea to hold someone’s leg in place while inserting the injector and for three seconds afterward.
A second dose can be administered if the first injection doesn’t reduce symptoms within five to 15 minutes and the reaction continues to worsen. (This is why auto-injectors typically come in packs of two.)
Call 911 immediately if a reaction is bad enough to require an EpiPen.
Prescriptions for epinephrine auto-injectors typically last a year and should be refilled before they expire.
How to use an EpiPen:
Remove the EpiPen from its carrier tube.
Hold the EpiPen with the orange tip (where the needle is) pointing downward and the blue safety cap pointing up. Remember this phrase: Blue to the sky, orange to the thigh.
Remove the blue safety cap. Pull straight up on it. Do not bend or twist it.
Place the orange tip against the middle of the outer thigh. Using a slight swing, jab the auto-injector into the thigh until you hear the device click.
Hold the EpiPen firmly in place for three seconds. Count slowly.
This is a phrase we often hear when we reflect on something that happened 365 days ago. It might represent thoughts and feelings of evaluation, consternation, lamentation, and celebration.
Today, I am setting aside some time for meditation…on all of these things, because they each apply in some way to the loss we have felt over the past year.
It was one year ago today that our sister Autura got up to go about her day, not knowing it would be her last. I don’t know what specific things she did throughout the day before she drove her car that afternoon into the last place she thought she’d lose her life…her own driveway…but I can probably guess most of what she had accomplished.
Autura lived every day to the fullest. It was guaranteed that on any given day she would…
laugh with someone,
offer compassion to someone,
pray with and for someone,
be brought to tears listening to someone,
encourage someone,
and challenge someone.
Maybe you were one or more of those someone’s?
Autura was a Jesus-follower. I am grateful she was in the category of the Methodist variety of such disciples.
As I start my second year as your interim Superintendent in the Metro District, I am meditating on how Autura’s legacy lives on in my life and in our district.
I am meditating on…
what she left behind for me to do,
what she left for me to pick up and carry on,
what she is telling me to speak up and speak out about,
who she is telling me to sit down with and really listen to,
what does she want me to challenge that inspires the change for Christ that is needed in the world,
who needs me to laugh with them,
and who needs to be reminded that no matter how lost they may feel, how downtrodden they are, how unsure they are that anyone cares or notices them – that they, and we, remain…
I shall meditate on these things, and much more, reflecting on the gifts I received from God in being a brother, a friend, and a colleague of the one-of-a-kind Autura Eason-Williams.
Rest in Peace, dear sister.
You fought the good fight, finished the course, and kept the faith.
Let us all keep running with perseverance the race that Christ has set before us…for His sake, and Autura’s.
Your Interim Metro District Superintendent, Rev. Dr. David O. Weatherly
The Autura Eason-Williams Day of Lament and Action (AEWDLA) was conceived by the Late Rev. Roger Hopson and the Rev. Marilyn E. Thornton as a time to honor the memory of the Rev. Dr. Autura Eason-Williams, who was removed from us by gun violence on July 18, 2022, by offering a time of lament for other similar losses in black communities and providing opportunity for people to engage in discussion and formulate solutions for gun violence awareness, reduction, and repair.
Join us on Sunday, July 30, 2023, at 4:00pm
• Centenary UMC, 584 E. McLemore Ave, Memphis, TN, 38106
• Clark Memorial UMC, 1014—14th Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37208
In Memphis
Impact testimony and informative interaction with
Mr. Ian Randolph, Political Affairs Chair of the Memphis NAACP
• Rev. Roz Nichols, President of Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action and Hope (MICAH)
• Mr. Terrance Ryans, Director of Mission and Shelter, St. Matthews UMC, Trainer for Triumph Over Trauma• Organizing for art project at Centenary UMC
Visit the TWK BMCR website to register and find more information.
This year’s Health Fair & Back-to-School Drive will be held on July 29, 2023. As you know, every year during our Annual Health Fair our youth gear up their engines for our Annual Back-to-School Drive. In the past, we were able to supply over 400 Pre-K-12 students, and this year we are anticipating more! We need your help! Althoughwe are currently accepting donationsof basic school supplies, we prefer monetary donations to purchase needed school supplies.
Please download the school supply card and use the list to fill a bag with school supplies. We will place the supplies in backpacks and hand them out to families during the 2023 Health Fair.
Please bathe the bag of supplies in prayer once it has been filled. Pray that the student that receives it will have a successful school year.
It’s time to register for our in-person summer enrichment program for rising 1st through 6th graders. The program runs from June 5th through July 27th.
Providing Water for Project Transformation We are asking each member to donate a case of water for our Summer Project Transformation Program. We will not be using water fountains due to safety precautions but would like to ensure clean and safe drinking water to the youth participating in the program this summer.
