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 […]
Continue to open our ears, Spirit of Truth, that we might hear how you desire to shape us, rather than our words shaping how we allow you to fit into our hearts.
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! […]
To the parents of those noisy kids today I have a few words I want to share with you…
The CDC has issued new guidelines for people who have been fully vaccinated. You are considered fully vaccinated 2 weeks after the second dose of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or 2 weeks after a single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. If you are fully vaccinated: you can now gather indoors with […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family October 14, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade O God Most Holy, as we glimpse your morning brightness through the colored branches, we are filled with a deep longing to remain enfolded in your holy presence this day. Without reservation, the bracing breeze reminds […]
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