Thursdays 9:00am-Noon
Quilts can give us warmth, memories, and serviceable bed covers. As quilters, we have found physical, emotional, and spiritual comfort in our Thursday morning quilting group. We have given more than $4,500 to our church for missions ,power, kitchen, lawn and other worthy causes. Our quilters work on a variety of quilts and when we are finished, we say-”Isn’t it beautiful and all done one stitch at a time”. Come join us–we are not professional–just prayerful.
On the 3rd Thursday of each month you are invited to join a fun group of seniors as they gather for a carry in luncheon and presentation. The presenters vary from month to month, but they often share information about faith-based and community organization in the Evansville area. The luncheon begin at noon and is usually wrapped up around 1:30 p.m. If you would like more information on how you can be a part of this group, please contact the church office.
Central UMC is proud to have a Parish Nurse on staff. In 2000, the South Indiana Conference of the United Methodist Church began to fund a Parish Nurse Program. A Parish Nurse is a registered nurse with additional training in holistic ministry. Our Parish Nurse offers blood pressure checks and occasional help interpreting doctor’s orders. However, her main focus has become keeping the sick and the elderly connected to their church family. She visits the home-bound, the hospitalized, and those in nursing homes. She also arranges greeting cards for the holidays and phone calls as appropriate.
The Wednesday Friends group was initially meant to be the beginning of a senior adult day care ministry. Spouses in need of respite were offered the chance to have lunch with a spouse, make sure the loved one was comfortable with the arrangement, and then leave for some respite. As the program evolved, though, the spouses did not want to leave. Now the group is more of a support group and we join each other for lunch, a brief devotional time, a few jokes, and lots of fellowship. The Parish Nurse coordinates meals and devotions along with the aid of another Central Nurse, Paula Giesman. This group meets over lunch on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday’s of each month at 11 a.m.
