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
Teach me
During my time at Rachel’s Home, I taught the grade 1/2 class, and the grade 3/4 class. After a full day of teaching, I was returning my teaching...
My Father
After School One afternoon at Rachel’s Home classes had been let out for the day, and I found myself surrounded by children. We were seated in a...
Help Wanted
We have begun the tile project for Rachel's Home. We are looking for volunteers to help paint, glue and shellac. Anyone who can spare an hour or so...
A Prayer Request
Hilda is the glue that keeps Rachel's Home together. The strain on her is enormous and it does impact on her health. She is not doing very well at...
Please Help!
Are you artistically inclined? Do you want to put those skills to work, to help the children at Rachel’s Home? Well, here’s your chance. We have...
Just Try to Imagine
I want you to walk into the smallest bedroom in your house. Take a look around. Imagine that the furniture is gone. Imagine that it has been...
Mission Capsule: Taiwan
TAIWAN Our gifts to Presbyterians Sharing support the Rev. Dr. Paul McLean as he works in partnership with the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan and the...
Rachel’s Home Struggles with a Food Shortage
As you are aware, Rachel’s Home is struggling to feed the children with the resources it has. We are doing what we can to help. We are supplying...
Steph Introduces us to Libesang
I had the privilege of spending many wonderful hours playing, teaching, and talking with the children of Rachel's Home here is an account of one of...
