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The Speed of Love

5th Sunday after Pentecost in Ordinary Time/July 10, 2019 Just these lines, my friends … … to say this is our fourth summer together at Matthews United Methodist, and my heart is full thinking of you. Your spunk, strength, curiosity and genuine sense of community for both the buoyant and the exhausted echo through the streets of our community with...
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O Long May It Wave

5th Sunday after Pentecost/July 3, 2019 Just these lines, my friends … … to say “thank you” for a wonderful day of worship. At 8:30 and 11:00 we concluded our service with a new hymn written by Choir member Darlene Presbo, Shall We Gather at the Banner, and our Sanctuary Choir sang a beautiful arrangement of Morning Has Broken. You...
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Transformed Me Forever

Second Sunday of Ordinary Time/June 19, 2019 Just these lines, my friends … … to say that it was a wonderful Father’s Day/Trinity Sunday at Matthews United Methodist (MUMC). Beautiful music and heartfelt preaching guided us into the presence of God. A high moment for me from Pastor Paul’s sermon was this statement: “A child is not likely to find...
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The Heart of Summer

Pentecost/June 5, 2019 Just these lines, my friends … … to say that last week was quite a week for us at Matthews United Methodist. Rarely in my 40+ years of serving in the church have I officiated four funerals in one week. We shared in celebrating the life of four persons (Judy Reynolds, Caleb Barnhardt, Maddon Shirley, Fairy Moore)...
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From the Lyon’s Den…

The sun is setting as I write these words. It is the close of a Sunday I hope always to remember. Our time together in worship and then the afternoon reception flowed together to create a tapestry of care and richly shared grace that washed over me and my family as an experience too deep for words to describe. Even...
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WELCOMING PASTOR CHUCK WILSON

Matthews UMC will welcome Dr. Charles (Chuck) W. Wilson II as new Lead Pastor July 1, 2016. Pastor Chuck Wilson is currently appointed as Senior Pastor at Long’s Chapel United Methodist Church. Located at Lake Junaluska, one of the largest United Methodist Retreat and Conference Centers in the world, the congregation has over fifty retired clergy and three retired bishops...