Canvasback Youth Extreme Team - Pohnpei 2009

When Jesus was here walking among us, part of His ministry was to heal people physically while He told them about the love of God, the Father. Just before He ascended to Heaven, He directed His disciples to do the same - to go out and tell everyone about the extreme love of God for His people. That commission wasn't given only to the twelve disciples, but we today have also been given this responsibility. The Canvasback Youth Extreme Team is made up of God-driven young people who are committed to this same purpose - to go out, help out, and speak about the love of God to their peers and to anyone who will listen! Their nightly message is simple and life-changing, that no matter how worn, torn, dirty, or broken you are, God loves you and is wanting to make you new again. Through nightly meetings of worship, small group activities, and message, the Canvasback Youth Extreme Team will help bring their peers on Pohnpei into a closer and committed relationship with God. Please pray that we will be able to minister to both the physical and spiritual needs of this very special community!

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The young missionaries have already raised a significant portion of their cost for this trip and Canvasback’s contribution is $900 for each youth. The total Canvasback has to raise is $9,000 and $3,000 has already been raised. To give a good kid a life changing mission experience, you can contribute by clicking here.

Canvasback receives the highest rating from Charity Navigator

What a nice surprise to find that our work here at Canvasback Missions is being rewarded with a four star rating by Charity Navigator. This is something we can really be proud of because Charity Navigator themselves has a high rating as an evaluator of charities. They are known as “America’s premier charity evaluator”. They have been rated by Forbes, Business Week and Kiplinger’s Financial Magazine because of “their unique method of applying data-driven analysis to the charitable sector.”

Charity Navigator has notified Canvasback Missions that due to our sound fiscal management, and the consistent operation of our mission in an efficient manner, Canvasback Missions, Inc. is being recognized as a top-notch non-profit charity.

Thus we can say to our donors, “We are trustworthy in that we will do what we say we will do”. Charity Navigator’s words to us are: “Canvasback Missions executes its mission in a fiscally responsible way, and outperforms most other charities in America.” This is a good reason for our donors to have complete confidence in donating to Canvasback Missions, Inc.

Pictures of Chuuk

Chuuk Team Returning

Pictures! How we love pictures. ”A picture is worth a thousand words.” For me, I need the thousand words plus lots and lots of pictures to illustrate the kinds of experiences that come out of Canvasback Missions to Micronesia. Every trip is different, and every island is different, but always with many, many people in need.

I will have the privilege of going through the hundreds of pictures recently taken in Chuuk, part of the Federated States of Micronesia, where Canvasback took an ENT team in May. The images coming back make your heart ache for the sick ones found there. The success stories were well documented.

When I was younger, I would look at any island picture and immediately would wish to be there. Usually it was images of a white sail boat on blue water or inviting white sandy beaches. I wanted to see what was on the outside of the borders of the pictures. I’m reminded of another expression very often used by people trying to describe things without pictures, You probably have heard this too: “You had to be there”. As the stories from Chuck are published on this web site with lots pictures, I can imagine the medical personnel saying “You just had to be there!”