Central Presbyterian Church

The Missions and Outreach committee is pleased to announce that SMYLe will be performing at Central on Sunday October 3rd.
The Soweto Marimba Youth League (SMYLe) project is a musical outreach programme that seeks to offer under-privileged children living in the Dobsonville area of Soweto an opportunity to overcome adversity, work towards a common goal, and [...]

The Missions and Outreach Committee is sponsoring a volunteer fair to be held after church on Sunday October 31. Representitives from local charities will be available to answer your questions about volunteer opportunities within our community. Everyone is welcome.

Steph introduces us to Rapelang
While I was teaching the children at Rachel’s Home, the children began to call me Madame because I held professional status. I soon learned the power that a name holds in Lesotho.
Each Sesotho name holds meaning as many North American names do. The difference in Lesotho is that when each child [...]

After School
This article was originally posted November 5, 2009. The story it tells serve as a reminder to all of us who still have our fathers around that we are so fortunate to be able to tell them how much we truly love them.
One afternoon at Rachel’s Home classes had been let out for the day, [...]

When you donate to the Penny Project, this is how we put your money to work:

Monthly Budgeted Costs

Teacher’s Salaries (3 Teachers)
$1000

Helper’s Salary
$100

Donation to Hilda
$20

Total Salaries and Gifts
$1120

Food (Bread/Peanut Butter/Milk)
$300

Vitamins
$100

Total Food & Vitamins
$400

Total Monthly Costs
$1,520

In addition, on a quarterly basis,we pay $1,500 for boarding school fees for the 4 first-year Form-A (High School)  students that graduated [...]

Rachel’s Home is suffering through a food crisis. In response, we’ve brought back the In & Out box program. Each envelope identifies an item of food that you can buy for the children at Rachel’s Home.
This is how it will work. Please pickup an envelope from the out-box. An item and its price will be [...]

As the editor of this here page, I’ve pestered many a person to write a story about a child that touched their heart. Onsite, I was primarily involved in the construction of the classrooms and as such my contact with the children was in little snatches of time. So, I figured I had a built-in [...]

On May 15th, the Children’s Ministry is organizing a Car-Wash in support of “The Penny Project”. This project is part of our mission to support Rachel’s Home.
Come to our Garage & Bake sale and while your browsing, the kids at Central will wash your car.

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 replaced with old beat-up bunk-beds, stacked three high on three walls. That’s a total of nine beds. Now I want you to imagine 22 children sharing that room. Imagine [...]

Well, we have been home in Canada for just over a year now, and there are children and memories from Rachel’s Home that will forever be etched in my heart and memory.
One child that took a piece of my heart is Boney.  He is almost a young man in body, but in mind he is [...]