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
Our Green Day
Yup, we're well past 4,000 cans now. This week, we brought yet another bumper crop of 184 cans, bringing our total to 4,382 cans. So, September 15th...
OK, Now What
That's right folks, we've blown the lid off our next target. First a huge thanks to Summer Blast, our Vacation Bible School. You guys collected 449...
Dig a Little Deeper
This week, we harvested 91 cans of veggies for our food drive. This brought our total to 3,349. Not bad, but a bit below the pace we need to reach...
Green with ?
Always be careful what you wish for. With 3,002 cans now very much in sight, Aubrey decided to challenge us to up that goal to 4,000 cans. Well,...
A Drought
Yes, our donations dried up this week. We collected a mere 72 cans, leaving our harvest to date at 1,899. To get to 3,002, we need 123 cans per week...
Lettuce Celebrate
167 cans! A pretty good harvest this week, brought our crop total up to 1827. 3002 is definitely reachable and remember every can we collect helps...
A Bumper Crop
Yes folks, we're at 1,665, more than halfway there! Grace, our bargain hunter, did some shopping this week with the cash donations that have come in...
Slim Pickings
Our harvest this week was a bit small, just 45 cans. This brings our official count to 359. That said, we have received some substantial cash...
Pick of the Crop
Yes, we collected 132 cans this week; a good early harvest. That said, we still need to pick up to pace a bit to reach our ultimate goal. As of...
