What Will Your Legacy Be?
What Will Central's Legacy Be?

Central is beginning a planned giving program, CENTRAL'S LEGACY FUNDS, to provide an opportunity for you to leave a legacy from the Lord to His future generations, and to leave a stronger and more effective witness here at Central.

Vibrant churches are dependent on regular tithes and gifts to support their ongoing ministries, special stewardship campaigns for very large special needs such as building additions, and bequests and other planned gifts for meeting other needs. These last gifts are especially important to growing active churches like Central, whose plans for their many ministries frequently exceed current income from regular tithes and gifts. Planned giving can make the very desirable, but the financially impossible ministry, become a reality.

In fact, Central's very existence is the fruit of one kind of planned giving. Judge Rose, a member of old Central when it closed, left funds to the Presbytery to reopen Central at a new location. More recently, when the education, office, and concourse wing was being built and major unplanned expenses to accommodate our neighbors were encountered, the unrestricted bequest of $200,000 from the Hartmans balanced the budget, eliminating the need for a ministry draining mortgage. The new chancel furniture, which facilitates the rearrangement of the chancel for contemporary worship, was made possible by a gift from the estate of Helen Hess.

The future will bring even greater financial challenges as we seek to reach our full potential for Him. Scripture, Psalm 95:3-5 and Haggai 2:8, makes it clear that our current income and our assets are the Sovereign Lord God's. King Solomon gave of both his income and his accumulated wealth in building the temple. We hope that Central's Legacy Funds will enable us to fulfill Scripture as individuals and as His church.

Over the next year, you will hear more about this in educational opportunities, brochures, displays in the concourse, etc. At any time you can contact the Legacy Committee members, Chris Carter, Scott Corey, or Judy Harclerode for more information.

"A good man leaves an inheritance
to his children's children..."
Proverbs 13:22