The more you know about Central United Methodist Church the more you will realize that we are in “connection” with United Methodist Churches from around the world. Every year our church participates in the ‘FAIR SHARE GIVING’ program through the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference that gives us the opportunity to share in global ministries that would otherwise be impossible to coordinate. Global Ministries seeks, on behalf of The United Methodist Church, to embody the Christian and Wesleyan conviction that all of life is within the promise of the saving, judging reign of God.

Our church has four goals through our global missions’ program.

These are:
1. Making Disciples of Jesus Christ;
2. Strengthening, Developing and Renewing Christian Congregations and Communities;
3. Alleviating Human Suffering; and
4. Seeking Justice, Freedom and Peace.
Two missionaries whose work has a special connection with Central United Methodist Church are: Miguel Mairena and Nan McCurdy who are serving God in Nicaragua. Nan says of their special ministry, “"We are called to follow Christ's example: to accompany, touch and include the poor, the women, the outcast, the old, the sick, the challenged, the children - all those not included fully in society. As God's children we are also called to be about the making of a just society here on earth, one that fulfills the Jubilee (the liberation of slaves, restitution of the earth, forgiveness of debt and the distribution of riches)."

"'Sell all your things, give to the poor and follow me'--this is Christ's most difficult message for us as U.S. Christians," Nan observes. "Our worth and well-being are so wrapped up in what we have, in contrast to people in countries like Nicaragua who have nothing but their faith."

We are a people who have heard God’s call to go out into the world … keep those in mission in your prayers as they strive to follow God’s calling!

All of us at Central believe that God’s Holy Word needs to be brought out into the world on a global basis.
"And you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." --Acts 1:8b