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.
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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
Happy New Year from Guatemala
New Memories
Guatemala is our newest mission. Alejandro, a member of and an elder at Central, has along with his family, followed God's call to serve in his...
October Newsletter
Greatings from Cubulco Dear Friends, We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support during the past year. It has been such a...
Going The Extra Mile
It's time for Central Presbyterian Church's annual fundraiser for Rachel's Children's Home, an orphanage and school in Maputsoe, Lesotho. Again this...
A Walk Down Memory Lane
Running for Rachel's Home Our friends at Cambridge Memorial Hospital's Emergency Department have been our partners from the very beginning. In...
A Stroll Down Memory Lane
Our Summer Food Drives have long been a staple of our missions. Through our food drives, we reach out into the community to make a difference in the...
It’s Bean a Good Week
More than 300 cans in a single week. Not bad at all. We still haven't reached the halfway point yet, but our total to date is 940 cans of baked...
Full of Beans
We can do better! Yes, I may be full of beans, but a mere 650 cans? Remember, every can we collect helps our friends at the Cambridge Self Help Food...
No Beating around the Bush
586 Cans after three weeks. That's not a bad start. Our first goal of 2022 cans is 1,436 cans away. We need to remember that there many people in...