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

Going the extra mile

Going the Extra Mile

This year, our annual fundraiser for Rachel's Home was a bit of a hybrid affair. Some people participated in the Road to Hope Marathon, while some...

News from cubulco

News from Cubulco

Hope this finds you well. Here is an update of our family and ministry in Cubulco Guatemala. Once again thank you for your prayers and support....

166 to go

166 to Go

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A new post!

A New Post!

This week, we posted a grain of 128 boxes this week. A pretty good week, but to reach our goal of 1,500 boxes, we'll need to repeat this for each...

A few flakes

A Few Flakes

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Three cheerios

Three Cheerios

We're inching closer to our next goal, 1,500 boxes. This week, we reached 1,105 boxes. With 395 boxes and our next goal shredded, we too can move on...

Yes!!!!

Yes!!!!

So much for 1,000 boxes. That's right, we've broken through our next goal. I guess you could say we're setting cereal goals (thanks for the awful...

Spoon fed

Spoon Fed

This week's haul was 50 boxes, bringing our total thus far to 915. Our current goal of 1,000 is well within reach. If we dig in, we can reach that...

Bowled over

Bowled Over

We are oh so close to our next goal, 1,000 boxes. This week, you brought our total up to 865 boxes of cereal. This will mean thousands of nutritious...