GLOBAL OUTREACH

SOUTHEAST ASIA

RESCUE OF CHILD SOLDIERS IN BURMA, www.divineinheritance.com
Church planting, pastor training. teaching alternative agriculture methods (instead of poppy production) and caring for orphans characterize Central’s relationship with a people group in Thailand, Burma and China. A recent focus has added the rescue and aftercare of child soldiers. In the only place in the world where oppressed children are being offered freely to the care of a Christian agency, the resources to respond are crucial A miracle of God has motivated the Burmese military authorities to set aside their original demand that there be no teaching about Jesus Christ in the homes provided to the former, young soldiers.

Several Central families have “adopted” a child soldier and CPC children’s offering monies have provided food and clothing for them.

TRANSFORMATIONAL LIVING IN CHINA
Central is supporting staff of Overseas Missionary Fellowship, China Harvest and Ministry to Mainland China who are providing key services to people living without hope. Outreach, working with nationals, includes designing and building homes adequate for a hostile climate, training medical personnel to offer strategic education and care for HIV/AIDS patients, providing supplies and support for churches, and generating underground schools of theology.

These are examples of the nine Central partnerships in Southeast Asia.

AFRICA

HOPESPRINGS, partnering in Malawi, http://www.hopesprings.org
By giving birth to an HIV/AIDS ministry, HopeSprings, in 2007 Central connected to several partnerships in Malawi which focus on issues of the pandemic: Partners in Hope Hospital, offering medical care, agricultural help and youth education; St. Gabriel’s Hospital where an HIV/AIDS wing is under construction. Relationships are developing through regularly scheduled trips of Central people to Africa and Malawians to Baltimore. Targeted skills for US travelers include medical expertise, pastor training, marriage counseling, construction experience.

HopeSprings in Malawi is one of fourteen Central partnerships on the continent of Africa, including CPC children’s offering covering the school tuition costs for a Malawian teen.

EUROPE

THE SHELTER COMMUNITY HOUSE, The Netherlands Teri, daughter of a Central family, and Benjamin van Essen are staff at a Hostel in the red light district of Amsterdam. Their responsibilities involve all the hotel-type tasks, as they supervise workers, volunteers and interact with boarders from all over the world, most of whom are facing crisis circumstances in their lives. Both are led by the Spirit into transformational conversations that often happen over a year’s time, as guests come and go.

The van Essen’s ministry is one of four Central connections in Europe. Other locations are Spain, Turkey and Ukraine.

MIDDLE EAST

SAT-7, Cairo, Egypt and Damascus, Lebanon, www.sat7usa.org
On the air with three, full-time satellite channels, SAT-7 creates Christian television programming by and for the people of the Middle East and North Africa. When SAT-7 KIDS was launched, entire families, Christian and non-Christian, switched from radical, government-run stations to SAT-7, intrigued by the freedom, joy and love of Christian TV hosts. There is much positive viewer response and opportunity for clear presentation of the Good News of Jesus.

SAT-7 is one of two Central supported ministry units focused on the Middle East.

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Wings of Hope, Haiti, www.heartswithhaiti.org
KC Bersch, daughter of a Central family, is a teacher and caretaker at a home/school for disabled, throw-away children in the mountains of Haiti. Love so strongly characterizes the care ministered here that Jesus becomes real. Even children who cannot speak exhibit behavior that is clearly praying! Regular trips are made to visit Wings, the travelers taking shoes, school supplies and toys.

In Latin America Central has a sister church in SaoPaulo, Brazil and supports several nationals with SEPAL, a Brazilian branch of One Challenge International.