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
Steph is Commissioned
Steph has answered a call to serve in Hlotse Lesotho. Steph was a member of our 2009 and 2012 missions to Lesotho and she is a graduate of the...
Peanut Butter Challenge Update
I'm afraid we don't have an up to date photo of the pyramid, nor do we have a completed count of the jars as of this week. I apologize for that....
Peanut Butter Challenge Update
As of Friday, we have collected 133 jars of peanut butter for the Cambridge Self Help Food Bank. Congratulations Central! Our original goal was to...
AIDS and Orphans
Periodically, Help Lesotho chooses promising young Canadians for self-funded internships for one year in Lesotho. The purpose of the...
Peanut Butter Challenge
Here's our weekly update. As of Friday, we have collected 71 jars of peanut butter for the Food Bank. Keep up the good work.
Peanut Butter Challenge Update
Here's our weekly update. As of Friday, we have collected 65 jars of peanut butter for the Food Bank. Keep up the good work.
News From Missions & Outreach
With your help, our missions have had a very successful start to the year. In January, our chile luncheon raised more than $400 for Alejandro's...
Messiah Concert Raises more than $2,000
Arcady, with special guests, the Cambridge Boys and Kiwanis Girls Choirs performed Handel's Messiah at Central in support of the Cambridge Self Help...
The Gleaners in the Dominican Republic
In January a team from the Ontario Christian Gleaners went to the Dominican Republic to witness how their soups are used to help alleviate poverty....
