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MAD in the City

Making a Difference (MAD) in the City is Church Street Youth’s annual summer mission project. This project is focused on serving Knoxville and is a longstanding partnership with the Wesley House Community Center. Historically, we have spent time each summer with Wesley House students by providing academic support with one-on-one schoolwork, playing games, going on field trips, and working on […]

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Weekly Prayer – May 19

Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family Week of May 16, 2021 Written by Rev. Jan Buxton Wade Let us sing a glad song of gratitude to our God who has given us life and has imbued us with power to change the world.  How amazing is that grace!  The Holy One believes in us!  […]

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Confirmation Class Zooms Along!

During this time of the COVID pandemic and in-person classes being suspended, Church Street’s Confirmation class has continued without any interruption. This year’s class of fifteen 6th and 7th graders began last September and will continue through April 2021. They meet every Sunday at 11 am via Zoom.

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Questions about Covid Vaccines?

Two vaccines are now being offered to prevent COVID-19. Pfizer-Biontech and Moderna vaccines have been released under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the FDA. Both are messenger RNA vaccines (mRNA) which work by teaching our cells how to make a protein that triggers an immune response. The mRNA from the vaccine does not enter the […]

Hope Amid Exile

Daily Advent Devotions from Church Street UMC Sunday, November 29, Morning By Bishop Kenneth L. Carder Hope Amid Exile Read Isaiah 40:3-5 A voice cries out: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord,     make straight in the desert a highway for our God.  Every valley shall be lifted up,     and every mountain and hill […]

Prayer for Today – October 15

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family October 15, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade   O Holy Vision, some of us walk bruised, burdened, and blinded through the ways of the world. We continue to question the unease, the uncertainty, the unknown. The apostle said that we see through a glass […]