Volunteer Ministry Center (VMC)
The Volunteer Ministry Center (VMC) is an organization that offers specialized services to individuals experiencing homelessness and those within our community who are in crisis. Central prepares and serves lunch once a month at the VMC. We also help to support the Holiday Store each year. It helps to enable those those without Christmas shopping money to “earn” gifts for their loved ones by using their time and muscle to complete community service work, which pays in points that are redeemable at the Holiday Store.
Election Day
Another way we extended hospitality is by our Election Day Café. Central UMC is the voting location for Voting Precinct 11, which encompasses the 4th and Gill neighborhood. Central provides an Election Day Café throughout election days. We offer snacks, cookies, and drinks for all of those who come to vote at the church.
Volunteer Ministry Center (VMC)
The Volunteer Ministry Center (VMC) is an organization that offers specialized services to individuals experiencing homelessness and those within our community who are in crisis. Central prepares and serves lunch once a month at the VMC. We also help to support the Holiday Store each year. It helps to enable those those without Christmas shopping money to “earn” gifts for their loved ones by using their time and muscle to complete community service work, which pays in points that are redeemable at the Holiday Store.
Election Day
Another way we extended hospitality is by our Election Day Café. Central UMC is the voting location for Voting Precinct 11, which encompasses the 4th and Gill neighborhood. Central provides an Election Day Café throughout election days. We offer snacks, cookies, and drinks for all of those who come to vote at the church.
4th and Gill
Central is located in heart of the 4th & Gill neighborhood and we strive to be an integral part of the neighborhood as we extend hospitality. We host neighborhood community gatherings, monthly meetings, holiday parties, and community forums. We are also part of the annual 4th & Gill Home Tour. We strive to be a place of hope in the neighborhood.
4th and Gill
Central is located in heart of the 4th & Gill neighborhood and we strive to be an integral part of the neighborhood as we extend hospitality. We host neighborhood community gatherings, monthly meetings, holiday parties, and community forums. We are also part of the annual 4th & Gill Home Tour. We strive to be a place of hope in the neighborhood.
Writer’s Guild
The Knoxville Writer’s Guild is a non-profit organization that facilitates an inclusive, supportive community of people interested in writing. The writer’s guild provides a forum for information, support and sharing among writers, helps writers improve and market their writing skills through education and participation in Guild writing groups, competitions and publications, and works with other cultural and civic organizations to support literary arts in the area. Central hosts the Writer’s Guild meetings and events.
Threads on Third
Threads on Third is a unique women’s clothing ministry at Central UMC supporting financially challenged women in life transitions. “Threads on Third” takes its name from its location on the third floor of Central UMC. Threads on Third partners by invitation with select women-focused non-profit organizations, agencies, and ministries. Its clientele are women engaged with select non-profit organizations who serve adult women in various life situations, such as those housed temporarily in domestic abuse shelters, those returning to the community from residential addiction recovery programs or incarceration, those in financial distress from divorce, job loss, fires, or other emergency circumstances, special needs adults in training for employment needing work clothing, etc. They will be referred to Threads on Third through the agency with whom they are connected, make an email appointment, and possibly be accompanied by an agency employee or volunteer when the boutique is open Thursdays 10am-12pm. Please contact threads@knoxcentralumc.org for more details.
Writer’s Guild
The Knoxville Writer’s Guild is a non-profit organization that facilitates an inclusive, supportive community of people interested in writing. The writer’s guild provides a forum for information, support and sharing among writers, helps writers improve and market their writing skills through education and participation in Guild writing groups, competitions and publications, and works with other cultural and civic organizations to support literary arts in the area. Central hosts the Writer’s Guild meetings and events.
Threads on Third
Threads on Third is a unique women’s clothing ministry at Central UMC supporting financially challenged women in life transitions. “Threads on Third” takes its name from its location on the third floor of Central UMC. Threads on Third partners by invitation with select women-focused non-profit organizations, agencies, and ministries. Its clientele are women engaged with select non-profit organizations who serve adult women in various life situations, such as those housed temporarily in domestic abuse shelters, those returning to the community from residential addiction recovery programs or incarceration, those in financial distress from divorce, job loss, fires, or other emergency circumstances, special needs adults in training for employment needing work clothing, etc. They will be referred to Threads on Third through the agency with whom they are connected, make an email appointment, and possibly be accompanied by an agency employee or volunteer when the boutique is open Thursdays 10am-12pm. Please contact threads@knoxcentralumc.org for more details.
