 We want to be proactive, not reactive. We want to take the situation seriously and act to keep our community healthy and avoid unnecessary risks. So...
1) Actions we have taken: disbursed hand sanitizer more widely around the campus; started using gloves to prepare communion; all serving communion use hand sanitizer before; encouraging elbow mumps or "hands together bow" in lieu of handshakes. 2) What are your own personal thoughts about your personal risk level and toleranace and what you think you need to do? 3) Elders, please reach out to the folks in your family group who are active and get feedback from them. How anxious are they? 4) The situation is obviously fluid. We will watch day to day and make decisions as staff and executive com. If you have concerns, please let myself, Russell, Anne or the church office know. LINKS: Disciples of Christ response Dallas County Health Dept City of Dallas CDC Please take care of yourself and those around you. Check on the elderly or others who are at greater risk - do they need help with shopping etc if they're self-quarantining? Be smart. Be hopeful. For heaven sakes wash your hands!!! Ken
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Pastor Ken talks briefly about how Central has opened its campus to the community.
World Communion Sunday |
| This Sunday, October 6th we'll celebrate World Communion Sunday with our brothers and sisters from the Berean Ethiopian Evangelical Church. The service will begin at our usual worship time (11:00 AM) but we will meet in Fellowship Hall. Then, plan to stay for Pot-luck lunch. The Ethiopian Church will bring their traditional food and Central will provide the meat and drinks. |  |
In Preparation for Sunday Worship
 | We have incorporated music from both congregations in planning the service. To prepare for the piece that we will sing together we've included a link so you can practice! The piece is titled "Ende Egziabher Yale Manew." Click <<HERE>> to listen to it on Facebook - follow along with the words on the left. |
Join us for this adventure as we learn to "Love your neighbor as yourself."
Saturday: September 28, January 11 and April 25th - 10am-4pm
Central Westside Campus - 4711 Westside Drive, Dallas, 75209
Saturday: September 28, January 11 and April 25th - 10am-4pm
Central Westside Campus - 4711 Westside Drive, Dallas, 75209
Central is excited to offer an opportunity to a bright, creative and outgoing individual who loves to engage with new people, and to connect them with one another. We have so many new and amazing individuals and groups coming onto our campus, whether for church activities or through one of the Central Westside Initiatives. We need you to help us meet them, and help them meet each other.
The Connections Minister of Central Christian Church is responsible for the design, management and execution of the connectional relationship mechanisms with the congregation, campus and community. This position reports to the Senior Minister and serves in a collaborative team approach. The primary responsibilities are Church Growth – visitor attraction, connection, and integration; Children, Youth and Family Connections, Care & Education; Campus and Community Connections – engagement with those on and off campus who have connected with us in some way. This person will also recruit, train, lead and organize volunteers who serve in these areas.
Click our Employment Page for more info and the Position Description.
There you'll also find next steps if you or someone you know is interested in learning more.
The Connections Minister of Central Christian Church is responsible for the design, management and execution of the connectional relationship mechanisms with the congregation, campus and community. This position reports to the Senior Minister and serves in a collaborative team approach. The primary responsibilities are Church Growth – visitor attraction, connection, and integration; Children, Youth and Family Connections, Care & Education; Campus and Community Connections – engagement with those on and off campus who have connected with us in some way. This person will also recruit, train, lead and organize volunteers who serve in these areas.
Click our Employment Page for more info and the Position Description.
There you'll also find next steps if you or someone you know is interested in learning more.
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We are excited to announce an expansion of the new Adult ESL program at Maple Lawn Elementary. Thanks to a generous donor, and mentoring from Aberg Center for Literacy, we are able to offer a 12 week sessions Fall and Spring, scheduled to begin September 3 and January 14.
Program Director and Sit Coordinator will be part time, paid positions to organize and lead center.
Volunteers will serve one night a week for 12 weeks, either Tuesday or Thursday. They will receive robust training and support from the staff as well as from Aberg volunteers who are mentoring us.
Use the donation button to make additional contributions to support this program. Just note "ESL" in the comment box to have the gift credited toward this program.
Please fill out the form below to request more information.
Program Director and Sit Coordinator will be part time, paid positions to organize and lead center.
Volunteers will serve one night a week for 12 weeks, either Tuesday or Thursday. They will receive robust training and support from the staff as well as from Aberg volunteers who are mentoring us.
Use the donation button to make additional contributions to support this program. Just note "ESL" in the comment box to have the gift credited toward this program.
Please fill out the form below to request more information.
Dear Central Christian Church,
It has been less than two months since I started working and worshiping here, and yet I feel like I have found a home and a family in the people of Central. For this reason, and many others, it is extremely difficult for me to tell you all that I have to leave Central, Dallas, and the XPLOR program. A lot of time, prayer, and discernment has gone into this decision and trust me when I say it was not an easy one to make. The short answer to the question "why?" is that my family back home needs me right now. They have been struggling financially and with mental and physical health problems since before I left for the program in August. But now those problems are escalating and I have been feeling a tugging at my heart that I need to be there to support them as they have supported me my entire life.
While I am going to help my family in Tucson, I truly do feel as if I am leaving behind a family here in Dallas. In such a short time you all have touched a placed in my heart that will leave a lasting memory forever. You have shown me the true meaning of unconditional love and hospitality. You have shown me what doing Church outside of the walls of a sanctuary truly looks like. You have helped me learn about my calling and what my next steps may look like to further my own understanding of what Ministry can be. Every single person here has greeted me with open arms and has made me feel a true sense of belonging, and that is not always something that is easy to find. So for all of these things that you have done for me and all of the things that I have not mentioned here I want to say thank you. Those two small words do not feel powerful enough to really show the gratitude I have for all you have done, but they will have to do for now.
I want to leave you with a few wishes that I have for Central. I hope that you continue to throw your doors wide open to the lost and broken. I hope that you find yourselves wandering out of those doors more frequently and in larger quantities to experience God's transforming love with your neighbors. I pray that God will continue to wrap God's arms around this space and all of the people that inhabit it and the work that is being done. I truly wish that more people will experience the amazing thing that you have going for you all here at Central. In the short time I have been here, I have seen such a true sense of mission and God's love in the leadership and direction of this Church. If I can discover so much in the short chapter I have been here, I can't imagine what is to be discovered in the rest of the book that is Central Christian Church.
As for me, I ask that you keep me and my family in your prayers through this difficult time. I also ask that you keep my housemates, Erin, Myma, and Neo in prayer as they move into a new phase of their lives here in Dallas without me. I will try to find you all on Facebook and if you feel so inclined to add me back I would love that. I would love to stay in touch with each and every person here at Central who has made such a huge impact on my life. I promise to keep Central and all of its ministries and people in my prayers. I hope that our paths will cross in the future and if I am ever in Dallas I will make sure to stop in and say hello.
Many blessings and best wishes,
Stephanie Sager
It has been less than two months since I started working and worshiping here, and yet I feel like I have found a home and a family in the people of Central. For this reason, and many others, it is extremely difficult for me to tell you all that I have to leave Central, Dallas, and the XPLOR program. A lot of time, prayer, and discernment has gone into this decision and trust me when I say it was not an easy one to make. The short answer to the question "why?" is that my family back home needs me right now. They have been struggling financially and with mental and physical health problems since before I left for the program in August. But now those problems are escalating and I have been feeling a tugging at my heart that I need to be there to support them as they have supported me my entire life.
While I am going to help my family in Tucson, I truly do feel as if I am leaving behind a family here in Dallas. In such a short time you all have touched a placed in my heart that will leave a lasting memory forever. You have shown me the true meaning of unconditional love and hospitality. You have shown me what doing Church outside of the walls of a sanctuary truly looks like. You have helped me learn about my calling and what my next steps may look like to further my own understanding of what Ministry can be. Every single person here has greeted me with open arms and has made me feel a true sense of belonging, and that is not always something that is easy to find. So for all of these things that you have done for me and all of the things that I have not mentioned here I want to say thank you. Those two small words do not feel powerful enough to really show the gratitude I have for all you have done, but they will have to do for now.
I want to leave you with a few wishes that I have for Central. I hope that you continue to throw your doors wide open to the lost and broken. I hope that you find yourselves wandering out of those doors more frequently and in larger quantities to experience God's transforming love with your neighbors. I pray that God will continue to wrap God's arms around this space and all of the people that inhabit it and the work that is being done. I truly wish that more people will experience the amazing thing that you have going for you all here at Central. In the short time I have been here, I have seen such a true sense of mission and God's love in the leadership and direction of this Church. If I can discover so much in the short chapter I have been here, I can't imagine what is to be discovered in the rest of the book that is Central Christian Church.
As for me, I ask that you keep me and my family in your prayers through this difficult time. I also ask that you keep my housemates, Erin, Myma, and Neo in prayer as they move into a new phase of their lives here in Dallas without me. I will try to find you all on Facebook and if you feel so inclined to add me back I would love that. I would love to stay in touch with each and every person here at Central who has made such a huge impact on my life. I promise to keep Central and all of its ministries and people in my prayers. I hope that our paths will cross in the future and if I am ever in Dallas I will make sure to stop in and say hello.
Many blessings and best wishes,
Stephanie Sager
This series launches October 3rd at Central. Check back here for info on each show.
Welcome back to Disciples Women after summer break.
September begins our exciting “Spectacular Fall Line-Up” of speakers and Rev. Deborah Morgan-Stokes of East Dallas Christian kicks of the 2018-19 year.
A native Dallasite, Deborah graduated from Bryan Adams High School in 1980. She attended Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth where she received her Bachelor of Science in Education. After graduation, she spent three years teaching public school at L. G. Pinkston High School in West Dallas before acknowledging her call to ministry.
She attended Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee where she completed her Masters of Divinity degree. She was ordained in 1990 and began her ministry at East Dallas in 2006.
I love being pastor at this historic “congregation-in-transformation,” Deborah said.
She currently serves on the boards of Lakewood’s Juliette Fowler Communities and Literacy Archives.
Seven years ago, Deborah married Don Stokes. The union brought together a blended family of four cats. Deborah is an avid reader of fiction and when time permits, she loves to travel. She especially loves to hike the desert southwest, which she fondly refers as “my heart-home.”
The 2018/19 Disciples Women’s study program topic is “Called for God’s Purpose” and Deborah chose the lesson: Positioned for Purpose, the story of Lydia.
“I chose Lydia because she was a rarity in her time—a woman who was a successful merchant during a period when women rarely had access to economic power,” Deborah said. “She made her money by excreting the color ‘purple’ from shells which she sold to Rome’s elite.”
“As a TCU alum, the color purple is important to me,” Deborah quips. “But not only did Lydia make money—she was generous with her earnings, sharing with the first Christian Church, supporting the apostle Paul,” Deborah said.
The lesson states that because Lydia took time away from the busyness of her life to worship God, she was positioned to hear the gospel, become a believer in Christ, transform her entire household and offer hospitality to Paul and his traveling companions. She was positioned for purpose, just as women can be today.
Following the program, lunch will be served in Fellowship Hall. Luncheon theme is apples to welcome the beginning of fall. The cost for lunch is $5.00 per person and can be paid to Paquita Mueller at the door. Come and bring a friend; just remember an RSVP is required for lunch. You can contact Laura in the office or email Shelia at shelia0806@sbcglobal.net.
September begins our exciting “Spectacular Fall Line-Up” of speakers and Rev. Deborah Morgan-Stokes of East Dallas Christian kicks of the 2018-19 year.
A native Dallasite, Deborah graduated from Bryan Adams High School in 1980. She attended Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth where she received her Bachelor of Science in Education. After graduation, she spent three years teaching public school at L. G. Pinkston High School in West Dallas before acknowledging her call to ministry.
She attended Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee where she completed her Masters of Divinity degree. She was ordained in 1990 and began her ministry at East Dallas in 2006.
I love being pastor at this historic “congregation-in-transformation,” Deborah said.
She currently serves on the boards of Lakewood’s Juliette Fowler Communities and Literacy Archives.
Seven years ago, Deborah married Don Stokes. The union brought together a blended family of four cats. Deborah is an avid reader of fiction and when time permits, she loves to travel. She especially loves to hike the desert southwest, which she fondly refers as “my heart-home.”
The 2018/19 Disciples Women’s study program topic is “Called for God’s Purpose” and Deborah chose the lesson: Positioned for Purpose, the story of Lydia.
“I chose Lydia because she was a rarity in her time—a woman who was a successful merchant during a period when women rarely had access to economic power,” Deborah said. “She made her money by excreting the color ‘purple’ from shells which she sold to Rome’s elite.”
“As a TCU alum, the color purple is important to me,” Deborah quips. “But not only did Lydia make money—she was generous with her earnings, sharing with the first Christian Church, supporting the apostle Paul,” Deborah said.
The lesson states that because Lydia took time away from the busyness of her life to worship God, she was positioned to hear the gospel, become a believer in Christ, transform her entire household and offer hospitality to Paul and his traveling companions. She was positioned for purpose, just as women can be today.
Following the program, lunch will be served in Fellowship Hall. Luncheon theme is apples to welcome the beginning of fall. The cost for lunch is $5.00 per person and can be paid to Paquita Mueller at the door. Come and bring a friend; just remember an RSVP is required for lunch. You can contact Laura in the office or email Shelia at shelia0806@sbcglobal.net.
 | Make plans now to have brunch with our General Minister and President, Rev. Teresa "Teri" Hord Owens on Tuesday, March 13 9:15 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Northway Christian Church, Fellowship Hall 7202 W. Northwest Highway Dallas, TX 75225 Click here to make reservations. |
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