God + You + Central

Care

Contact kelly.ervin@centralchristian.com for more information on serving opportunities in this area.

• Care Guides
  The care guides meet with people who turn to Central for help, assessing both their physical and spiritual needs, and then guiding them through the process of getting help. This is a great hands-on position for people who want to be directly involved in helping a hurting person. 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, Monday through Thursday.
• Addicted to Hope
  Lead/counsel a group recovering from addictions through precept principles. Groups meet from 6:30 to 9:30 pm, Friday; 6:30 pm-8:00 pm, Tuesday
• Meals Ministry Team (am)
  This team organizes Memorial receptions following funerals. 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, Monday through Thursday
• Meals Ministry Team (pm)
  Our pm team responds to families and individuals at the time of crisis. Offering food and encouragement through meals. They may coordinate meals for a few days after someone is released from the hospital. Times vary.
• Meals – Special Delivery
  This team offers meals to new mothers. Times vary.
• Edge of Commitment
  Help lead a 10-week course for couples who are preparing for who are seriously dating or preparing for marriage. Begins January, April, and September.
• Homeless Ministry Team
  If God has given you a special compassion for those who are homeless, then this team is for you. Each Saturday, the homeless ministry team meets in the courtyard to prepare lunches, which are served to dozens of homeless people. This is a wonderful opportunity to share God's love with people in need. One-time serving opportunities offered on the fourth weekend of every month; ongoing serving opportunities are on Saturdays at 7:30 am or Sunday mornings from 6:30 am to 10:00 am in room 176.
• Visitation Ministry: Hospitals
  Visitors bring words of hope, care, and love to those who are confined to the hospital for a short or long period of time. Visitors go to hospitals and offer prayer and words of encouragement. As scheduled, volunteers serve on Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday
• Visitation Ministry: Nursing Homes/Shut-ins
  Visitors bring a word of hope, care, and love to those who are confined for a short or long period of time. Visitors will go to nursing homes or to those confined to their own home and offer prayer and words of encouragement. Volunteers serve as scheduled.
• Partners in Prayer
  You can sign up to pray for the people and the ministries of Central for one hour each month. Our goal is to have round-the-clock prayer for Central every hour of every day. This is a ministry that can be done in your own home and prayer guides are given to help direct your prayer time. Volunteers serve as scheduled for one hour sessions.
• Prayer Chain
  Those who have a gift of prayer will receive an email after 2:00 pm Monday-Friday. Daily prayer
• Monday Morning Prayer Team
  Meet every Monday to pray for the ministry of this church and for the staff. 8:00 to 9:30 am, Mondays.
• Saturday Evening Prayer Team/Meeting
  Meet every Saturday to pray for the ministry of this church and specific prayer needs.
  5:00 to 6:15 pm, Saturdays.
• Food Pantry Volunteer
  Help sort, clean, and organize our food pantry and make boxes for families in need. Help with our periodic food drives. Occasionally go on a "spending spree" to restock the food pantry. Times vary, as needed.
• Leader for HOPE Cancer Support Group
  We need a cancer survivor with a passion to reach out to others with cancer and create a support system of encouragement and hope and a place to talk through the losses involved with having cancer. 6:30 to 8:00 pm, Second/Fourth Tuesdays of the month.
• Hospice Visitation
  Visitors bring words of hope, care, love and encouragement to those who are patients of a hospice through Odyssey Healthcare. A hospice program provides palliative care for the seriously or terminally ill patients, and support services to patients and their families through 24-hour a day care in both home and inpatient settings. Visitors adopt a patient or family to provide social, spiritual and emotional care during the last stages of illness, during the dying process, and/or bereavement. Visitors will go to the facility or to a home and offer prayer and words of encouragement. Times vary, as scheduled.
• Shut-in Visitation
  Visitors bring words of hope, care, love and encouragement to those who are confined for a short or long period of time. Some people are released from the hospital and are not well enough to attend church and request home visits. Also, elderly who are no longer capable of leaving their home to attend church long for Christian community. Visitors go to homes of people in these situations and offer prayer and words of encouragement. In some cases, visitors may be asked to do some grocery shopping for their new friends. Times vary, as scheduled.