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
Want to Make a Difference?
Our friends in the ER at Cambridge Memorial Hospital are running again this year to support Rachel’s Home. This year, they will be joined by a team...
No More Baby Steps!
That's right folks, we collected 137 jars this week! This brings our total to 304. Remember, every jar goes to support our friends at the Cambridge...
Our Refugee Family
Mohammed and Soulaf are refugees from the conflict in Iraq. With their two children Dima & Issam, they escaped to Jordan two years ago. Today,...
Teething Problems
Yes, we fell off the pace a bit this week. We brought in 36 jars which brings our total to 167. We can still reach our goal, but we really need to...
Let it Snow!
Let it Snow? Well yes, it’s winter in Lesotho and yes it snowed in Maputsoe this week. Every year, this is a very difficult time at Rachel’s Home....
53 Jars!
53 Jars!! That’s right no puns, no kidding. You brought in 53 jars of baby food to stuff our buggy today. This brings our total to 131. Great work...
A Pearticularly Good Week
Bad puns aside, this week we added 25 jars to our collection. The total thus far ? 82 jars. We still need to up the pace if we want to reach our...
Crawling Along
We collected 18 jars this week. This brings our total to 53. To reach our goal, we'll need to collect 50 jars/week. So Central, Let's get going!
Don’t Forget your Baby Food
Let's cram that pram. Remember, we're trying to collect 500 jars by Labour Day. Everything goes to the Cambridge Self Help Food Bank.
