Outreach
CANOPI
Outreach Trip Payment
Please submit payment for the full amount of your outreach trip with a check or with Zelle:
- CHECK: Make payable to CANOPI and write “Outreach” + the trip dates in the memo. For example: “Outreach Sep 1-8 2027.” Mail to 63 Via Pico Plaza #201, San Clemente CA 92672. Please include a note with your email address and phone number.
- ZELLE: Our account number for receiving Zelle payments is [email protected]. Please also email us at [email protected] with your full name, email, phone, mailing address, the amount of your Zelle payment and your trip dates.
Please note that payments for outreach trips are not tax-deductible.
short-term outreach trips
Costa Rica is a nation ripe for the Kingdom, and a variety of demographics in need of the Gospel are found within its borders. This includes such diverse groups as the nationals (called Ticos), indigenous Indians, ex-pats, tourists and those caught in the sex-slave industry. Partnering with local churches, CANOPI seeks to bring laborers into the center of this harvest. In addition, numerous local congregations are thirsty for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, providing a rich opportunity to minister the Father’s love to the Costa Rican church at large.
Outreach Ministry Trips
Ministry trips are the heart of our short term outreaches. These 7 to 10-day trips include several training sessions on operating in the spiritual gifts with boldness and humility. You will learn to be ready to bring a word, testimony, song or prophecy as Holy Spirit directs. The emphasis for these trips is ministry to local churches, schools and on street corners, bringing salvation, healing, deliverance and prophetic ministry as the Spirit leads.
Summer Ministry School
These two-week trips are for young adults and include daily training, equipping and discipleship as well as daily ministry opportunities to practice what has been taught. Young adults will receive instruction on operating in the spiritual gifts with boldness and humility and learn to be ready to bring a word, testimony, song or prophecy as Holy Spirit directs. This trip is for college and high school-age believers and will focus on bringing the power of the Holy Spirit to the needy in villages, communities and churches in southern Costa Rica. Click here for more info.
Custom Trips
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Outreach participants are English-speaking, Spirit-filled believers from around the world. They are growing in their faith and many already operate in their spiritual gifts with boldness and humility, while others are eager to learn. They vary in age and background but have in common a hunger for the Spirit and a longing to see the Kingdom come to earth. They are teachable, submitted to their local church body and desire to be ready in and out of season to bring a word, testimony, song or prophecy.
A typical CANOPI outreach day might include:
- Training and equipping of outreach participants
- Outreach opportunity to a church, hospital, school or street corner
- Outreach planning and debriefing
- Free time with numerous recreational options
- Group ministry time in prayer and worship
Pilon de Pavones, Costa Rica
Outreach locations vary from trip to trip, based on the time of year and the accommodation requirements. However, most trips are situated on the Pacific coast between Jaco and Uvita.
While the international flight to Costa Rica is not covered in the CANOPI outreach fee, the flight selection will be coordinated in the planning process. Upon arrival at the Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO), outreach participants are shuttled to their final destination in a small rented van or a large hired shuttle, depending upon the size of the group. And depending upon the location and traffic conditions, this trip can take from 2 to 5 hours.
CANOPI will also provide transport for all outreach activities, and will commute participants back to the SJO airport at the conclusion of the trip.
On-campus meals consist of a diet of basic Costa Rican cuisine, and are included in the outreach costs. On occasion (2-3 times per trip), meals are taken on the road and are the participant’s responsibility, usually costing an average of $10-12 (US) per meal.
Attendees are provided with basic accommodations during the outreach trip. Depending upon the outreach, anything form hotel rooms to dorm style rooms may be provided. In many cases, lodging is open air and rustic, capitalizing on Costa Rica’s moderate climate and tropical conditions.
Several recreational opportunities will be built-in to your outreach week, including trips to beaches and waterfalls, as well as various sight-seeing expeditions.
- on the street
- in churches
- in schools
Thinking about joining an outreach trip? Pray and get in touch!