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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Pre-order your bedding plants. Proceeds from the sale of these bedding plants fund our mission at Rachel’s Home
Flower Basket Order Form

On May 15th, the Missions & Outreach committee is organizing a Garage Sale in support of our missions both at home and abroad.
In addition to the usual treasures, we will be offering bedding plants and hanging baskets. Proceeds from the sale of the plants will directly fund our mission at Rachel’s Home, an orphanage for the [...]

Missions teach you many things; but first and foremost, they teach you how truly privileged you are when you are given the opportunity to help others. 
“Do not store up for yourself treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.  But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where [...]

On behalf of the Rachel’s Home Committee, I would like to extend my sincere thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make the Strauss night a success. The Lesotho Mission Team along with the Senior Youth and many others worked long and hard to make it a success.
A special thanks goes out to Elsie, who [...]