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
Today’s Word: Rain
And, quite simply, the words need to be "No Rain". Tomorrow the team is to put on the roof. There needs to be dry conditions for that...
Border Crossings
Last night, on the way back to South Africa, the team discovered they were "missing" one permit of paperwork for the team bus. As a result, the bus...
Joy with brokenness
Today, while the team was at Rachel's Home, a new female child was dropped off by the police. She arrived with just clothes on her back....
On Schedule
The team, in Lesotho, is on schedule finishing up a solid day of work. It they are able to keep up the pace the building will be completed Saturday...
The little cuties
The team had a good day today working hard on the building project, welding, and painting. Everyone had some really special times with the children...
Food before work…
The team is having breakfast together this morning and then will head directly to Rachel's Home to begin their tasks. Please pray for the work to...
A child’s heart
The first day at Rachel's House was just like Christmas. That is how Hilda described it. They were playing the entire time with little...
They’ve Arrived!
The team has just gotten in touch and have arrived safely in Ficksburg, SA. They are very tired but Elsie feels they will recover after a good...
And they’re off!
The Lesotho Team 2012 has left the building and are heading to Person International airport for their first leg of flight, 6:30pm to Amsterdam....
