Our Prayer Shawl ministry has created some beautiful pocket prayer shawls and made them available to anyone who would like one. If you know of someone going through a difficult time, please also feel free to take one for them. Thank you, ladies!
We strive to provide spiritual support for our church family members who are in the area hospitals daily. Our office staff call both Decatur hospitals every day to see who has been admitted, and if you have told the hospitals that your church is Central Christian Church, they will let us know that you are a patient, and we will try to have someone reach out to you, whether that’s a pastor, elder, or a member of our wonderful Hospital Caller/Visitation team.
Both hospitals have software that allows their staff to tell us if our people are there, but both hospitals have had problems lately. If you will be or are currently hospitalized at either hospital, please let us know or have a family member contact us to let us know that you are there so that we can reach out to you.
At this time, neither hospital has an estimated date for when their software will be fully operational again.
Oh, and PS… please make sure that your hospital knows that Central Christian Church is your church home (or they won’t know to tell us you’re there).
Thank you for helping us minister to you and your family!
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How to “Text to Give” vs. Texting for Forms/Registrations/Event Sign Ups/Etc.
Hi everyone!
I’ve had some questions about using our text number service, so I thought I’d do a quick “how to” for some clarification.
-Kathleen :)
Our Text Number for
Giving and Forms:
217-212-2173
“Text to Give”
The First Time– Text GIVE to the number above– only GIVE (all caps)! You will then receive a link where you can set up your online giving account (or sign in with your text number, if you’ve already set up an online account). You can then tell it what you want to give and when.
Every time after that– You can text GIVE XX (where XX is the amount of money you wish to give). No need to set up the account again.
Receiving a Form via Text/Event
Sign-Ups/Prayer Requests/Visitor Forms/Etc.
Look for the word promoted for the event or form. For example, our prayer request form’s word is PRAY. The Visitor form’s word is VISITOR. (These words are case-sensitive, and we try to choose words with all caps.) Text only the word we promote for the event or form (nothing else!) to our text number above. When you send this word to the text number, it sends you a link to the form for the event/ prayer request/ registration/etc., where you can fill in the information needed. If you text any additional words, the system gets confused and it will send you the Giving form instead.
Hope this helps! Have a great week!
-Kathleen :)
When you enter any hospital, please phone the church so that ministers and elders can pray for you and visit you. Regulations to protect your privacy as a patient prohibit hospitals from notifying your pastors as they previously did. For the hospital to release this information requires your specific permission, and often your permission is never even requested, especially if you enter the hospital through the Emergency Room. Any time you are in the hospital more than forty-eight hours and no one from Central has been in contact with you, you may be sure that the church does not know you are hospitalized. Help us provide good pastoral care!