Quiz Night for Mexico!

Casas por Cristo is an organization that builds homes along the US / Mexico border for families that do not have homes. In just four days, volunteer teams build a safe and secure home complete with cement foundation, electricity, windows, doors, drywall, and insulation. Casas por Cristo is driven by a desire to provide tangible expressions of God's love and provision. It is a ministry about bringing hope to families in need. GTCCF takes a group of volunteers to Juarez, Mexico to do a Casas build every spring break. This year, Canvas will be taking a group of volunteers to Juarez to build a home for a family in need. As you can imagine, this is a God-sized dream that will take lots of prayer and hard work.

The students of Canvas are planning events for the term to help raise money for the building materials that we will need to build a home in Juarez. The first Mexico event of the term was a charity quiz night at Canvas. On Thursday evenings at Canvas we serve free soup and bread and so last Thursday we served Chicken Tortilla Soup and hosted a quiz night to raise money for the Mexico trip.

"Pub quizzes" in England are very similar to team trivia nights at restaurants in the States. We had five rounds of questions, including one round of questions about Mexico. We even had a few interactive rounds where students built towers with marshmallows and spaghetti noodles. Overall, it was a great evening full of fun and competition. Here are some photos from the event:

The New Term

Students are back in Selly Oak and we are back in the swing of things at Canvas. We kicked things off last Tuesday night with a Reunion BBQ at Canvas. We served free coffee, tea, and cookies every morning last week to welcome the students back. It snowed, it rained, and it was cold, but it was fun! We went bowling on Wednesday night with some students and had Soup-Er Thursday like usual. It was a busy week as we said hi to friends we had not seen in a few weeks.

Tonight is our first regular Tuesday night of the term. We are serving quesadillas to promote our trip to Mexico. Quesadillas are a big hit here, everyone loves them. But who doesn't love a quesadilla? We are having a Quiz Nite on Thursday to help raise money for Casas por Cristo. I'll write another post on that later. We will have music, a talk, free food, and prayer for Haiti tonight at Canvas. It is going to be a great night!

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May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
-Romans 15:13