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Bethel Church is a Hub for Community Service

Business Connections
April 14, 2025
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2025 • Business Connections
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Pastor Gering shows off the Hub City Mission’s kitchen which is used to prepare the weekly community meals.

By Sigourney Orstad
For the C-C Chamber of Commerce

Poised at the end of Tower Avenue in downtown Centralia, the Hub City Mission is one of Bethel Church’s programs serving residents of Lewis County.

Bethel Church has two campuses in Lewis County: one in downtown Centralia and another in Chehalis. Pastor Josh Gering leads the downtown Centralia campus and also helps run the community dinners Bethel offers to individuals experiencing food insecurity.

The community dinners take place every Tuesday night at both the Hub City Mission in downtown Centralia and at Toledo Middle School in Toledo. According to Pastor Gering, the community dinners help get people into a welcoming environment where they can enjoy a free meal.

“[The community dinners] enable us to serve and also help people be out of the cold… It gives people a warm place to rest, charge a phone, and just be,” he said.

Pastor Josh Gering stands outside the Hub City Mission in downtown Centralia.

In addition to the community meals, the Hub City Mission provides food boxes to those struggling to afford groceries. On the second and fourth Saturdays of each month, Bethel Church members gather to distribute boxes filled with canned goods, frozen meat, fresh fruits and vegetables, and dairy products.

The Hub City Bike Shop, also part of the Hub City Mission, offers repairs for recreational cyclists as well as for those who rely on their bikes for transportation. The shop operates on a sliding scale of donations, making its services accessible to everyone regardless of financial means. All proceeds from the bike shop go back into the Hub City Mission to support its programs.

Pastor Gering affirms Bethel Church’s deep commitment to serving those in need in Lewis County and living out their faith through action. “We can’t meet every need for sure,” he said, “but we can try to meet the needs that we can and just try to bless people.”

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