What is The Canvas Welcome Project? The Canvas Welcome Project is our way of launching the ministry each year. It is designed to tell university students in Selly Oak about Canvas and invite them into our ministry. Every fall for the past two years Canvas has gone door to door and given a gift to student houses in the neighborhood around the Canvas House. It allows us to welcome them to a new school year and let them know who Canvas is and that we are here for them. The past two years have been huge successes, and we are looking forward to how this years project will benefit our ministry. This year students will receive a re-usable grocery bag with a Canvas logo on it and a Canvas plastic cup. We also pass out free tea and coffee to students as they make their way to classes at the start of the school year.
As many of you know, we had to move out of our previous campus house and into a new location. That makes the 2010 Canvas Welcome Project even more important this year as we relaunch our ministry in a new location. Another part of the project is renovating and decorating a new campus house to be a warm and inviting environment for students to experience God’s love. Our new location has great potential but first involves some work: us putting in a new ceiling, creating an office and small group space, installing glass doors at the entrance, sealing the floor, installing new lighting, and of course the Canvas decorating touch that makes it so homey. We will be spending the coming weeks tearing down old walls and building new ones, hanging drywall, running electrical work, and painting it warm colors all to create a place of refuge for students to call home.
This year is the biggest Welcome Project yet, and we need your help in order to make the student gifts and campus house renovations possible. Will you consider giving to the Canvas Welcome Project? Our goal is to raise $15,000. $10,000 of this will go towards renovating and decorating the new house, and the remaining $5,000 will go towards the gifts that will be given to university students. It will also go towards events to kick off the new year like our Kick-off Party, an open mic at a local student hangout, and a cookout and football tournament in the park.
A gift of $5 buys a Canvas bag and cup for a student and a gift of $25 buys a bucket of paint for our new house. Your gifts towards the start of another great year at Canvas are greatly appreciated!
Gifts can be mailed to:
CMF International
PO Box 501020
Indianapolis, IN 46250
with “Canvas Welcome Project” in the memo line.
You can also give online here.
