Welcome to the Sumner Center UMC web site:
Sumner Center United Methodist Church is physically located at 13135 Cty Rd 102, Stewartville, MN 55976. There is no mail delivery, telephone service or internet at this address.
Sunday School is currently not being held.
Worship services are on Sundays are 11:00 am.
Giving to the Community:
The first Sunday of every month, monies are collected to send to the Fillmore County Food Shelf.
The Sumner Center church does a collection for school supplies in late summer.
Around Christmas time Sumner Center participates in buying presents for the Fillmore County Angel Tree program. The church also does a Christmas Bazaar of goodies, were the monies raised are donated to the Activity Funds of local Care Centers.
UMW:
After over 100 years of an active UMW group, our numbers dwindled to so few that the decision was made to disband in 2022. Over the years, this group contributed much to the life of our church and they were very mission oriented.
Events (show calendar)
Gathering at His Table Sunday
10:00 am
Consolidated church worship service followed by a meal together. Mission focus will be to assemble kits for UMCOR - Menstrual Hygiene kits.
Combined Church Worship Service, at 10:00, Wykoff UMC
10:00 am
Racine, Sumner Center & Wykoff UMCs will consolidate at Wykoff UMC for worship, communion, mission work & a fellowship meal. The mission focus this month is Menstrual Kits
Transfiguration of Our Lord
12:00 am
The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event where Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory upon a mountain. In the account, Jesus and three of his apostles, Peter, James, and John, go to a mountain (later referred to as the Mount of Transfiguration) to pray. On the mountaintop, Jesus begins to shine with bright rays of light. Then the Old Testament figures Moses and Elijah appear next to him and he speaks with them. Both figures had eschatological roles: they symbolize the Law and the prophets, respectively. Jesus is then called "Son" by the voice of God the Father, as in the Baptism of Jesus.
Ash Wednesday Worship, at Sumner Center UMC, at 6pm
6:00 pm
What is Ash Wednesday? Ash Wednesday is the first day of the Lenten season, a period of 40-some days focused on spiritual purification and repentance. It is a day of fasting for Catholic and Anglican churches. Ash Wednesday gets its name from the practice of the distribution of ashes upon the foreheads of Christians. What do the black marks mean? Those black marks are meant to be crosses, although as the day wears on they can look like black smudges. They are a mixture of ashes, Holy Water and, sometimes, olive oil. It's especially significant, because Jesus was greeted in Jerusalem as a hero and the Messiah by the mob and he would eventually be put to death by the hands of the Romans at the insistence of those people. The ashes are meant to remind Christians about human mortality, while also showing the individual's desire for repentance and mourning of their own sins. As the priest or minister puts the ash on the body, he, or she, says "Remember that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return" (Genesis 3:19) or "Repent, and believe the Gospel (Mark 1:15).
Gathering at His Table Sunday
10:00 am
Consolidated church worship service followed by a meal together. Mission focus will be to assemble kits for UMCOR - Cleaning kits.
Worship Service
Sundays at 11:00 am
Sunday School
(Classes are currently not being held)
13135 Cty Rd 102
Stewartville, MN 55976
(There is no mail delivery at this address.)