Canyon Ministries

The Grand Canyon is an awesome spectacle of the Lord’s creation.  It is a chasm that stretches 277 miles through the Colorado Plateau, a chasm carved through layers of limestone, sandstone, and shale, and into the bedrock of schist, and granite.  It reaches over a mile into the earth and stretches as much as 18 miles in width.  The Canyon holds within its walls mountains that are taller than anything east of the Mississippi River.

The Grand Canyon is also a place to find and explore the wonders of His Creation.  From the splendor and grandeur of the Canyon walls, to the intelligent design of the creatures that inhabit this magical place, when viewed from a Biblical perspective, the Canyon has “God” written all over it.

But, the Canyon is also a place to see the evidence of God’s judgment of the world, a judgment by water on an earth broken by sin.  The Canyon gives you a glimpse of the effect of a catastrophic global flood, an appreciation for the scale of the flood of Noah’s day.  And yet, at the same time, you see God’s handiwork in the beauty and majesty of the earth on which we live today.

The splendor and beauty, the inexhaustible abundance of the Canyon points to our loving Creator.  As you travel through this chasm, you are constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of His creation.  As the trip descends deeper into the Canyon, you can not help but by awed at His creativity.

We are here at the grace of our Creator and strive to understand, but cannot.  We seek the human touch, like the ruins of a cabin or the wreckage of an old boat, to give us details we can understand, within a scale we can grasp.  As we sit and peer at the beauty of the Canyon, we view eternity, eternity, capped by today's clouds, in a sky so blue it seems imaginary.  As we visit canyons and hilltops within the Canyon, we cannot help but think we do not belong here.  We are blessed with the opportunity to visit.  We find it impossible to comprehend the size and forces that created this special place.

So why would someone run the rapids of the Colorado in a raft?  You will only find the answer to that question after completing this extraordinary experience.  The Canyon has a spell and a mystery all its own, and only from deep down in the Canyon can this wonder be truly appreciated.