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
Fishing Season is Closed
Yes, our #FillTheNet campaign is over. With your help, we reeled in 2,280 cans of Tuna, Salmon and other fish for the Cambridge Self Help Food Bank....
2000 and Counting
We passed 2,000 cans this week. Our haul for the week was 169 bringing our total catch to 2,078. 2,500 may be out of reach, but with a big week, we...
A Small Catch
Well, we didn't make it 2,000 cans this week. When we hauled in our nets, our catch weighed in at 143 cans. This brings our net total thus far to...
Catch of the Day
Well folks, we hauled in 197 cans this week. Not a bad catch, but we can do better. With fishing season almost over, 2,000 cans is within reach next...
Tipping the Scales
Yes, this weekend we surpassed last year’s record. We reeled in 237 cans, bringing our total catch thus far to 1,569. I know I’ve told this story in...
Oh so Close!
This week, when we hauled out our nets, we’d snagged 337 cans. This brings our catch to date to 1,332. Last year, our baby food drive brought in a...
995 Cans and Counting
328 CANS! That’s a big catch and yes, that puts us five cans short of 1,000. Another record haul next week and we just might reach last year’s...
Taking Stock
The halfway point seems like a good place to take stock of our canpaign. Fishy spelling aside, with the 134 cans we collected this week, our total...
Fill the Net in the Times.
Walter Gowing shares our mission, to collect cans of fish for the Cambridge Self Help Food Bank, with his readers in the Cambridge Times. Please...
