Rachel’s Home
Central supports Rachel’s Home, an orphanage and Christian school for the child victims of Lesotho’s AIDS crisis.
Godwill & Hilda, the couple that runs Rachel’s Home, care for 45 orphans. They employ three teachers and two local women to care for and teach these children and an additional 250 local children.
Our support began with the Penny Project, a children’s ministry project to raise funds. To date we have raised a half million pennies.
In March 2009, a group of 27 volunteers from Central travelled to Lesotho to build a school.
We continue to support Rachel’s Home in other ways.
We continue to fund the wages of the teachers and we have begun a vitamin supplement program for the children and staff at the orphanage.
In memory of our friend, Janice Aiken, a member of our Lesotho mission who passed away in April, we have created the Janice Aiken Memorial Bursary. This bursary is a university scholarship program for the children of Rachel’s Home.
Tataskweyak Cree Nation
Central has partnered with the Tataskweyak Cree Nation in Split Lake Manitoba.
Chief Sam Cook Mahmuwee struggles with poor attendance. In this community where unemployment and other social issues are major issues, we believe that education is crucial to a better future.
Our goal is to improve attendance starting in the lower grades.
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The Cambridge Self-Help Food Bank
Every Sunday, Central collects food for the Cambridge Self-Help Food Bank.
The baskets can be found in the Narthex.
Please, even if its just one can, bring something for the food-bank.
Every little bit counts.
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The Ontario Christian Gleaners
Central provides support for the Ontario Christian Gleaners.
Ontario Christian Gleaners is a Christian, interdenominational charitable organization that, with its many volunteers, cleans, dices, dries, mixes and bags surplus produce such as onions, carrots, peas, broccoli, cauliflower, peppers, beans, lentils, apples, and pears into a nutritious soup mix and fruit snack ready for distribution. The OCG donates the soup mix to reputable relief organizations with logistics to distribute the food where it is needed.
The Bridges
Central also provides support for “The Bridges”.
The Bridges is a transitional housing facility. It provides year round emergency shelter to individuals and families experiencing homelessness in Cambridge and the surrounding area. The Bridges has 40 emergency shelter beds for men and women 16 years of age and older, 3 emergency shelter units for families, and 20 bachelor apartments that are administered in partnership with Cambridge Kiwanis Village Non-Profit Housing.
Trinity Table
Central supports Trinity Table.
What is Trinity Community Table?
Trinity Community Table feeds a noon meal for up to 175 of our neighbours every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The volunteers prepare a nutritious dinner of meat, potatoes, vegetables, bread and milk year round. In the cooler months soup is also on the menu. A sandwich and cookies are packaged up for the evening meal.
Who does Trinity Community Table Feed?
There are many residents of Cambridge who need assistance. This need goes beyond the alcoholic and drug addict one would expect to find looking for a meal. Some of those we would not expect to see looking for a meal include the laid off gentleman in his fifties,. He has exhausted EI
benefits and has no money coming in to feed himself. There is the man who was released from the psychiatric facility and no longer receives the support to ensure he takes medication needed to be a productive member of society. There are those whose pension cheque does not stretch to the end of the month. And there are many others.
