What We Do

An auspice of the Christian Witness Committee of the local First United Methodist Church of Hohenwald, the Porch Ministry is the church's welcoming or house-warming ministry. Under Ms Ann Strickland's direction, a visitor of the church or a new-comer to the community is treated to a visit by two members of the ministry and is given a fresh, homemade loaf of bread or dessert, and is invited to the church and any of its numerous activities.

The Radio Ministry is the United Methodist Church of Hohenwald's Radio Program which broadcasts the Choral Anthem and the sermon of the previous Sunday's service on Sunday morning. The program has been broadcasted for three years with great success as it allows those members of the church that are unwell or are shut into nursing homes or hospitals or maybe their own house to listen to the service.

This Ministry is a non-budgeted item that relies solely upon individual giving to keep it broadcasting.

The United Methodist Women is a denomination-wide ministry devoted to helping women and children around the world with spiritual needs, economic needs, educational needs, or medical needs.

The United Methodist Women of Hohenwald, Tennessee are very devoted to helping their church, their community, and the world at large. They support the HUMC Radio Ministry; the Benevolence Fund, to help local families that are struggling with life's basic necessities; the Lewis County Food Bank, by both giving and volunteering; the United Methodist Committee on Relief, a denomination-wide disaster response team; the Bethlehem Centre in Nashville, to help suburban children keep out of gang-violence and to teach them about Jesus Christ; Miriam's Promise Golf Challenge; as well as adopting a local class in the Lewis County Intermediate School.

The United Methodist Women frequently visit the local nursing home to visit with church members who are residents there. They also donate and serve a meal once a month to the Lewis County Senior Centre here in Hohenwald.

The Prayer Shawl Ministry is an ecumenical ministry to support those who are experiencing difficult times and to assure them that others are praying for them and interceding for them. A prayer shawl is made and prayed over, and then given to the recipient, and the makers continue to pray for the recipient daily, that God would hold the recipient in His arms.

Mrs Larry McCutcheon, a member of the Prayer Shawl Ministry, describes how when she was given a prayer shawl during a difficult time in her life, whenever she wore it, she could feel arms around her, comforting her.