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
Bean There Done That!
Yes I know, it’s an awful pun, but that that's what you get when you decide to be bean counters. Trillium United Church has taken up our challenge...
Rachel’s Home-An Urgent Appeal
We just received news that a major hail storm damaged the roof of the orphanage at Rachel's Home. The roof and the interior was badly damaged. The...
Go Guatemala – October 20-30
Want to learn more about our mission to Guatemala? With our partners, Fellowship Baptist Church in Burford and Missionary Ventures Canada, we are...
Pancake Supper a Sweet Success
On behalf of the Missions & Outreach Committee, thank-you to everyone who attended and everyone who volunteered at our Pancake Supper last...
Too Many Cooks?
Certainly not our Saturday in December! When Central's team arrived to help prepare and serve a hot meal at Mike's Lunch Baskett, they were met by...
Mitten Tree Update
To date we collected 176 items: 28 scarves 19 pr. Socks 6 sweaters/hoodies 40 hats 1 pr. Child’s leggings 3 hat/mitten sets 73 pr. Mittens/gloves 1...
Rachel’s Home
It's been a while since we last posted anything from Rachel's Home. Over the next few weeks, we will try to get in contact with Hilda to get an...
White Gift Sunday
On behalf of the Missions & Outreach Committee, thank you for your generous gifts on White Gift Sunday. With your help, we collected more than...
An Opportunity to Serve
Join our team of volunteers for Mike’s Lunch Baskett 2017 For the past year a faithful band of volunteers from Central has been preparing, setting...
