Making a Difference
At Central, we believe God calls us to make a difference in our community and our World. Our missions are a critical part of our identity as a community of believers, sharing God’s love through service. Members of Central are involved in many causes throughout our community and our World. Our Missions & Outreach Team strives to find new and innovative ways to support these efforts.
It is our core belief that we can best make a difference by building relationships and walking in partnership with local people who understand their communities and who are striving to build their communities into strong and healthy societies. In keeping with this philosophy, we have adopted Rachel’s Children’s Home, Go Guatemala and the Cambridge Self Help Food Bank as our primary missions.
Together with our partners, we are striving to build God’s kingdom both at home and abroad.
Rachel's Children's Home
Central supports Rachel’s Home, an orphanage and Christian school for the child victims of Lesotho’s AIDS crisis.
For more than 10 years, Central has walked along-side Godwill & Hilda, the couple that runs Rachel’s Home, as they show God’s love to orphaned and vulnerable children. At Rachel’s Home, these children find a safe and loving Christian environment where they can begin to recover from the trauma they’ve faced. They also have a chance to attend school, maybe for the first time in their lives. Rachel’s Home is a place of hope.
With our partners, we continue to fund the orphanage, the school and the tuitions of the students attending secondary and post secondary institutions.
For more information, please click here.
Cambridge Food Bank
Central supports the Cambridge Food Bank.
The Cambridge Food Bank serves the City of Cambridge and Township of North Dumfries, which together have a population of approximately 145,000. The Food Bank helps more than 2,000 individuals and families each month, and distributes food to 26 community organizations.
Every Sunday, Central collects food for the Cambridge Food Bank. Please, even if it’s just one can, bring something for the food-bank. Every little bit counts.
Want to learn more? Click Here!
Go Guatemala
Central continues to support our friends in Cubulco, Guatemala. The chicken project startedwith our 2018 mission trip. A need was identified to help struggling families become more -sufficient. Alejandro and Kathryn Ortiz spent two years in Guatemala, serving and ministering to the local community. Though they have returned, the projects that they started continue and we continue to support them.
You can support this project too. For more information, please visit our Guatemala page.
News From Missions
An Urgent Appeal!
The Garden South Africa and Lesotho are experiencing a devastating drought, one of the worst droughts in recent memory. This drought is having a...
Where are They Now – Joyce
Hilda's daughter, Joyce grew up at the orphanage. As she matured, she began to take on some of the responsibilities of looking after the younger...
Where are They Now-Mpho
Mpho, another recent high school graduate, has moved on to technical school in Maseru. She is building a future for herself. This is yet another...
Where are They Now – Limpho, Thabang & Likano
Limpho is working in a factory in Durban, South Africa. Thabang and Likano have also found employment in South Africa. The unemployment rate in...
5,000
Yes, we made it to 5,000 cans. When combined with the totals brought in by Wesley, Trillium and Cedar Hill United Churches and Westside Presbyterian...
It’s Hard to be Green
Yes, folks it is hard to be green. Just as Aubrey. This is it, the final week of our food drive for the Cambridge Self Help Food Bank. And our total...
Never Bean There
Hope the Stage was well Built! With every can we collect, we enter new territory. We added 96 cans, bringing our record breaking crop to 4,696....
Truly Amaizing
Now that's an Amaizing Haul! I know, I know it's a really corny pun, but it's true, we brought in 218 cans of vegetables this week, bring our record...
Mike’s Lunch Baskett
What is Mike's Lunch Baskett, and why does baskett have two t's. Mike Baskett was an outreach worker for the Cambridge Self Help Food Bank. This...
