Coffeehouse Christmas was AMAZING! With the smell of fresh brew Starbucks coffee and live music filling the air, Coffeehouse Christmas started the holidays off right! The Cove was abuzz with shoppers excited to get a jump on their holiday gift-buying. However, this was no ordinary shopping experience; every dollar spent meant a life in a disadvantaged situation was touched! Every [...]
Calling all Super Heroes! The Superhero was our 2021 Vacation Bible School motto at Vision de Dios, Tijuana, Mexico. We had 17 superheroes from Canyon Springs, age range from 4 to “don’t ask,” traveled across the border to bring a message about the greatest superhero of all, Jesus Christ. We played games, including “Kapow the Villain,” where two of our [...]
Serving Our Local Communities When you volunteer locally, you get to interact with your entire community of people. People in our local communities will usually have vastly different stories and backgrounds. We receive a gift when we expand our world even 20 miles and receive the blessing of serving Him by serving others. You do not need to go across [...]
Christmas in Mexico looked a little different this year amid Covid-19; however, we were blessed by God's faithfulness and filled with joy as we celebrated Him! "There are more children here than we thought would come," the pastor and his wife shared with me as children were decorating sugar cookies with frosting and sprinkles. My stomach sank. What if we [...]
Dress With a Purpose, our Fair Trade Fashion Event was a great success. With over 15 Fair Trade Vendors involved, we saw trendy fashions walk the runway and discovered unique gifts to purchase that would not only bring delight but would support worthy causes. It was a day of fashion, shopping and most importantly starting a conversation about how our [...]
What an amazing week the team had in Alaska. This team was full of people who loved to laugh and loved to serve. We were able to help out doing odd jobs for Frontline Missions in Palmer, Alaska. Frontline is a food pantry and a service provider for people in need. We were able to tackle their to-do list/wish list [...]
It was "GAME ON" in Tijuana, Mexico this last Saturday! The Tijuana team went down to share what we had learned and done at our Canyon Springs Church VBS with the church of Vision de Dios. We told a story, did a craft, played some crazy recreation games and served lunch. However, the highlight was having the teens from Vision [...]
Christmas in Tijuana is fast becoming one of our FAVORITE holiday traditions! On Saturday, a team of 34 from Canyon Springs Church headed down to the border. The team, made up of kids, teens and adults, joyfully parked at the border and walked across carrying gifts and cookie supplies to bring to Vision De Dios. When we arrived the ladies [...]
“Thank-you Mom and Dad, thank-you so much for this trip.” Those were the words of my Haitian daughter as we took her with the October 2017 Haiti team back to Haiti for the first time. When we stepped off the bus onto the orphanage grounds where we had picked her up 8 months earlier, we were surrounded by children cheering [...]
Canyon Springs Church had the privilege of participating on an amazing mission trip to Corpus Christi, Texas. We partnered with Samaritan’s Purse in an effort to provide Disaster Relief due to the devastation from Hurricane Harvey. Through this week we were able to help one of many families that had their home tormented from the storms. Through the organization of [...]
