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
Bigoli, We can do This!
Yes, I'm struggling to find new puns for this one, so they'll probably get a little pun-gent from now on. This week was a good week. With your help,...
It’s time to Stir the Pot
113 cans. That's what we brought in this week. It's not a terrible tally, but it's also not what we need to put us over the top. Our total to date...
Turning up the Heat
By this point last year, we’d hauled in 447 cans. It was a pretty good catch. This week was a bit slow; just 109 cans, bringing us in off the pace...
No “Lid”le Haul
We are not cooking the books. This week, we hauled in an impressive 157 can and jars of pasta sauce. This brings our June total to 298. Yes, we're...
A Penne for your Thoughts
We brought in 76 cans this week, bringing our total thus far to 141. A pretty good start, yes but, if we're going blow pasta our goal, we're going...
Stirring the Pot
We kicked off our summer drive this weekend with 65 cans. That wasn't a bad start. However, to reach our goal, we need 180 cans per week. That would...
George Barrie
George Barrie is a long-time member of Central and the Galt area. His forebears arrived from Scotland in 1829 and established themselves in the...
Bringing a Little Warmth
The ceiling at Rachel’s Children’s Home is now insulated. However, it still has no heat source and the temperature in Lesotho does dip below zero at...
The Ceiling is Done!
On behalf of the Missions & Outreach Committee, thank-you to everyone who prayed for and everyone who contributed to our emergency campaign to...
