Outreach

Central Christian Church is committed to being an inner city community church. We have turned down opportunities to move to a more modern, urban location because we are committed to our inner city neighbors.

WOW stands for Way Out Wednesdays at Central Christian Church. Typically 40-60 inner city children meet at the church for after school activities and a small meal.

Helping Hearts was a doctor's clinic located in the church that provided health care to inner city residents who are without health insurance.

Dave's Place was housed by and supported by Central Christian Church as well as other local churches and charities for over five years. It was designed to help impoverished people in the surrounding community make ends meet between paychecks and to help families in times of hardship. On September 1, 2004 this ministry was moved to Church Community Services.

Central City Learning Center provided GED preparation and English as second language classes.

Central Christian Church hosts an annual Thanksgiving dinner to which we invite our inner city neighbors.

On a broader scale: Central Christian Church supports the efforts of Week of Compassion which is a funded program by Disciples of Christ churched in the U.S. and Canada.

The Reach Out Team has a challenging agenda for this year. We will continue the ministries long associated with Central Christian Church, i.e. our ministries of "doing the word" through Habitat, Church and Community Services, Community Thanksgiving Dinner, WOW, etc. But, there is something NEW and EXCITING coming for the members of Central Christian Church!!

Pentecost Sunday we began enlisting people to share in what we are calling "A Summer of Prayer". What might happen in the life of Central if at least one half of our regular attendees at Morning Worship covenanted to join in a "Summer of Prayer"? That is our goal for this special emphasis.

Members who have agreed to share in the Summer of Prayer will be placed in groups of three. We are calling these groupings "Prayer Triplets". They will agree to meet 10 times during June, July and August. Members of the Prayer Triplets will share with each other, remember their church family at Central and pray for them, and perhaps a new dimension, remember those outside a relationship with God or a congregation and pray that we might have an opportunity to share our faith in a good and loving God with them. Perhaps a new awareness of the Holy Spirit will come upon our congregation as we enter the Summer of Prayer.