Central UMC Blog

The NBA this summer has been INSANE. My Oklahoma City Thunder are now non-existent, Houston has Russell Westbrook, the powerhouse Warriors got blown up, the LA city rivalry is back, and Brooklyn has potential?! With so many variables of free agency drama, I was watching a show on ESPN centered...

Interested in what’s been going on here at Central? Our brand new Quarterly Report, The Review, is now here! It's undergone a bit of a format change but it's the same old Review that you know and love, just in a new place! In our latest Review, you can read Dr. Jan Davis' article on...

  Central has been blessed to partner with the Methodist Church in Cuba and has taken a number of outreach teams to Havana over the past four years. God is some doing amazing things in the Cuban Methodist Church, bringing awakening and revival to the entire country! In our time there, we...

  One of the most distressing humanitarian crises of our times – immigrants and refugees coming into our country by the thousands for safety, hope, and a future – has ended up right on our doorstep here in Northwest Arkansas and here at Genesis Church.      In...

  And pray for us, too that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should. Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Colossians 4 : 3 -...

In 2003 I was called to be a care minister. How do I know you may ask? Well, let me back up and tell you my story.   Before moving to Northwest Arkansas, I lived in Conway and taught at the University of Central Arkansas in the Speech-Language Pathology Department. I also served as...

  We've just gone through the season of Easter. And with that, celebrating Jesus' dying for us and defeating sin, as well as His resurrection to defeat our last enemy - death.     ...but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ...

  Abortion legislation in America has been the hot topic of recent headlines. Seven states passed abortion restrictions this year that challenge the constitutional rights established in Roe v. Wade. Alabama’s bill is the first outright ban on abortion; other states including...

Originally, this blog post was going to be one rooted in the concepts I've been personally growing through over the past year – namely vulnerability, fear, and the tension of living in a state of the in-between of knowing the love of God, but not yet experiencing the full reality of His...

I have a message to bring to you. It is contrary to what you are hearing in the world today.    Abortion hurts.      I tell you this not from stories I’ve heard from other women but by my own abortion trauma. Having an abortion was a decision...