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Let’s Create a Future Together – Comments by Pastor Chris Lane

April 28, 2022 By Central United Methodist Church 2 Comments

Hey, it’s still the Easter season! In case you haven’t heard me say it to you personally – Halleluiah, Christ is Risen! Read on, as I’m eager to tell you of some new developments on Central’s horizon. First off, you likely have received my news of retirement plans to happen in June of next year.… Read More »

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The World is Our Parish – Comments by Pastor Linda

March 30, 2022 By Central United Methodist Church 7 Comments

I’m one of those folks who can’t get enough of social media. If you groan, I get it. It’s not a perfect universe. But I’m in the middle of life. I’ve lived in Philadelphia and Grand Rapids, Lansing, Atlanta and Stockholm. My people are in Los Angeles, Belgrade, Seoul, Prague, and rural South Carolina. I… Read More »

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A House of Worship for All People – Comments by Pastors Chris Lane & Linda Stephan

March 2, 2022 By Central United Methodist Church 14 Comments

As your pastors, we are honored to serve among you, and to lead our church forward, welcoming new people into the embrace of Christ’s body here. Also as your pastors, we have discerned it is time to more fully live out Central’s value of radical hospitality when it comes to marrying couples in our sanctuary.… Read More »

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It’s Time to Name Our Trauma- Comments by Pastor Linda

January 24, 2022 By Central United Methodist Church 8 Comments

The Pandemic’s long-term effects reach us all. Thankfully, we don’t have to do this alone. Please share in the comments what’s helped you get through this time, or another hard time. Your experience might help someone else. When I was in seminary, I spent a summer working as a hospital chaplain.  I sat with people… Read More »

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What We’re Reading and Watching and Listening to: Recommendations from Pastor Chris and Katie Butera

January 5, 2022 By Central United Methodist Church 3 Comments

Happy New Year! Some think of Winter as a time to hibernate, binge on Netflix, and long for Spring. But it is also a time to learn some new things, to let the darkness teach us, and to read some lively words that might deepen our spirit. Did you know that in nature, creatures like… Read More »

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Close to Home: Even in pandemic and grief, a candle of hope burns – Comments by Pastor Linda Stephan

November 23, 2021 By Central United Methodist Church 6 Comments

We’re all so tired of pandemic, aren’t we? I’ve been sighing over rising cases, masks littering the sidewalks, the anxieties of parents, and the difficulties here at the church of planning for the holidays. Limiting attendance is just not in our church’s DNA!  Pandemic is still a little too close to home.  MEANINGLESS!  MADNESS! But,… Read More »

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THANKS ON PURPOSE – Comments by Pastor Chris Lane

October 28, 2021 By Central United Methodist Church 4 Comments

November brings a chill to the air, and our nation’s obligatory holiday around gratitude. Don’t get me wrong, Thanksgiving is a meaningful holiday for our family, and likely for yours. It shines a light on how Native Americans showed hospitality to the “refugee Americans” when Europeans newly arrived. Times were lean, but bounty was shared.… Read More »

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My Money Story – Comments by Pastor Linda Stephan

September 28, 2021 By Central United Methodist Church 2 Comments

The 2008 crash. I was three years out of grad school, and three years into owning my first home. I was making good money—for a journalist (read: enough, but not really saving a ton). I was paying back a student loan. Propane and gasoline prices soared. I suddenly had to pay a greater portion of… Read More »

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The 3 S’s

September 1, 2021 By Central United Methodist Church 4 Comments

How have you searched? How have you suffered? How have you served? The assignment was to write a worldview paper answering these questions; it was part of my senior seminar course at Hope College several years ago. Writing and sharing our worldview papers was one of my favorite college memories, not only for my own process of self-reflection, but… Read More »

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NEW LAND AHEAD

July 28, 2021 By Central United Methodist Church 2 Comments

“We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.”   –T. S. Eliot I’m a nature documentary geek. I could spend hours immersed in any program put on by David Attenborough or Ken Burns. My partner, Jane, teases me that… Read More »

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