Our 2025 Vision.
We hope and pray that in 2025, this can be said at our 100th Anniversary.
We are a church where every generation is reaching the next generation. We are a home to thousands seeking to grow in the grace of the gospel, a place of refuge and restoration where God transforms lives and rewrites stories. Every space and every service in the life of our church is designed to communicate the beauty and peace of the gospel. We are a place of real community and deep learning—characterized by gospel compassion and gospel conviction within a gospel culture. We shepherd the hearts of hundreds of children and shape the lives of hundreds of students each week. We pursue the campus as a strategic mission field, resource a thriving development pipeline that engages, trains, and launches leaders around the globe, and we have cultivated or formed:
• 10,000 pounds of food to donate.
• 1,000 gospel relationships.
• 100 each year sent on mission trips.
• 100 each year in our Training Program.
• 10 ministry residents.
• 10 ministry partnerships.
• 1 new church prepared to plant.
As we mark our church’s 100th anniversary, we hope to thank God for this and more, and that this significant moment would become a gospel movement.
Our Story
The story of Central began nearly a century ago in 1925, with 80 people who sought to plant a church that would be known for its love for Christ and commitment to taking the gospel to the nations. In its first meeting in 1925 the church took an offering, not for itself but for the cause of world missions. By God’s grace, ever since, Central has been a place committed to the centrality of the gospel and the cause of the Great Commission.
Whether that’s taking the gospel to our growing community, to the 70,000 university students at our doorstep, or to the nations, every ministry of Central Church flows out of our vision to be a place where every generation is reaching the next generation. Over its 100-year existence, the church has grown considerably—from eighty people to a membership of thousands, but its passion and focus has stayed the same. Our prayer is that the cause that founded this church is one that will continue to fuel all we do into its next 100 years.
