United Methodist Church of Hartford
Email Pastor Cynthia
The Rev. Cynthia Major joined United Methodist Church of Hartford on July 1, 2011. Previously she served the Westbury United Methodist Church in Westbury, NY, where she had been since 2008. She describes her core strengths as Biblical teaching and preaching. Pastor Cynthia is a 2004 honors graduate of Drew University with a Master’s of Divinity degree. She became an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church in 2010. She says, “The words I live by are spoken by the Apostle Paul towards the end of his life, ‘I’ve fought a good fight, finished my course, and I’ve kept the faith.’ On that day, I’d like to be able to say the same.” Prior to entering the ministry, she worked in the fields of banking and investments.
She was born in Brooklyn, NY, and grew up in Queens, NY. She has one older sister and a younger sister and brother. As a child, she felt a strong awareness of God. It was in her later adult life she felt the yielding to God’s plan for her to become a pastor. From 2005 to 2006 she was a resident Chaplain at Hartford Hospital. Pastor Cynthia enjoys reading, music, journaling, indoor gardening and writing drama. Mostly, however, she “loves encouraging people to see their relationship with God in a spiritually empowering way.”
Please go to the "Sermons" area of this web site if you would like to hear Pastor Cynthia deliver a sermon.
Email Cheryl
Cheryl R. Wadsworth has been Music Director/Organist at United Methodist Church of Hartford since 2009. She leads the 14-voice Chancel Choir, plays the 3-manual Casavant pipe organ, and plans worship closely with Pastor Cynthia Major. Cheryl believes that the congregation should serve as an additional choir in worship and she expressly involves them in learning new hymns and singing portions of many anthems. In addition to her work at the church, Cheryl is in her 17th year as Pipe Organ faculty member at the University of Hartford Hartt School of Music Community Division. She also serves on the Executive Board of the Hartford American Guild of Organists and recently organized the Pipescreams Halloween concert. She offered a concert in June with musicians of the church called “Strawberries and Soul” and performed a solo organ recital in October called ‘Music and Mentors”. She won the Julia R. Sherman Award for excellence in organ performance at the Yale School of Music in 1994 and has organized many festivals of organ and/or choral works in the Hartford region.
