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Church leaders mourn Tyre Nichols, seek change

Published: 31 January 2023
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Centenary United Methodist Church’s regular Sunday worship service was anything but routine.

The Memphis, Tennessee, church — where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. met with striking sanitation workers just days before being assassinated — now gathered to mourn Tyre Nichols, another man whose brutal death has shaken the national conscience. 

The Rev. Deborah Smith, the church’s senior pastor who had marched with King in Memphis, opened the worship service by quoting King’s famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

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NPR Visits Centenary after the Death of Tyre Nichols

Published: 30 January 2023
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NPR visits Centenary while in Memphis to hear how the community is grappling with the police killing of Tyre Nichols.

From member, Courtney Davis:

We have to start at the root of the problem, and that’s educational equality, financial opportunities, and start to create an environment for the citizens that are here and the ones that hadn’t even made it to the earth yet.

From member, Glenette Mayo:

And I try to understand how – five people on one person is just as bad. But then you – your job is to protect, and you lose all focus?

Read the full transcript from NPR with comments from our interim District Superintendent, David Weatherly and our former District Superintendent, Cynthia Davis.

Gospel of John Bible Study

Published: 22 December 2022
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Bible Study is the study of the Bible as a personal religious or spiritual practice. If we are serious and really want to be the hands and feet of Jesus, we must build a relationship with God, and Bible Study gives us the guidance we need.

Bible study will resume on January 10, 2023, at 6:00 p.m. on Zoom. We will be studying the Gospel of John by Dr. David Jeremiah. Please contact the office or Rev. Jones about the study materials.

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Centenary Closed Schedule for the Holidays

Published: 18 December 2022
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Closed Days:

Thursday, December 22

Friday, December 23

Saturday, December 24

Monday, December 26

Friday, December 30

Saturday, December 31

Monday, January 2.  

We will have church service on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.

If You’ve Been with Jesus

Published: 4 December 2022
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Rev. Jones explains the Four Benefits of a Relationship with Jesus Christ. The sermon “If You’ve Been with Jesus” by Rev. W. Frank Jones, Retired Elder of Centenary United Methodist Church in Memphis, TN.

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Advent Celebration

Published: 2 December 2022
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Advent season is the beginning of the liturgical year. It is a season of expectation and anticipation, preparation and contemplation. It is four weeks of preparing our hearts to receive Jesus our Savior, who will bring incredible promise, healing, hope for peace on earth, and joy to the world.
We will have a family to light the Advent candle on each of the Four Sundays in Advent and read scriptures as part of the Advent Liturgical Celebration. If you and your family would like to participate in the lighting of the candle for Advent, please contact Mrs. Glenette Mayo or contact the church office (901-774-7604).