Luncheon sponsors include: Central Baptist Church, Family Worship Center, Crossings Community Church, First UMC, Markham Woods Assembly, Xcellimark, Wings of Hope Foundation, Faith Assembly, Guiding Light Charities, Scott Plakon, CPH, Strang Communications and more to come.
OCTOBER 2009 - Random Act of Kindness
After preaching a sermon of how the church needs to be more connected to the community, Pastor Dwayne Mercer passed out collection plates filled with envelopes and asked each member of his First Baptist Oviedo church to take one.
Inside the envelopes was cash, which came to $25,000 altogether.
The money, in denominations from $10 to $100, came with rules. Members could not keep it for themselves and they couldn't give it back to the church. They had to give it to someone they felt needed it, tell them it came from the Oviedo Baptist church, and then post on the church Website what they had done with their money.
1,800 members of the church received envelopes, one of whom donated his seed to the Central Florida Dream Center. The Dream Center used that money to help a single mother pay her electric bill.
OCTOBER 2009 - Health Fair
The Health Fair Focuses on educating the youth about eating healthy. On Friday, November 23rd The Central Florida Dream Center hosted for the first a Health Fair. About 50 youth from ages 3-20 attended. Different fruits were given out as well as toothbrushes and everybody received a blood pressure check. Games were going on from four-scare to hot poptatoe and it was a blast.
February 2009 - Food Servers Donation
Gary's Island Grill Inc. donated food servers to help with the youth outreach programs here at the center.
