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Winter Retreat Registration is OPEN!
February 13-16, 2026
Tonto Rim Christian Camp | Payson, AZ
COST: $245/Student
CLICK HERE to register (spaces fill up quickly!)
See Pastor Josh for scholarship information.
This year’s winter retreat will take students into the Gospel of Luke to discover how meeting Jesus changes everything. Across the weekend, our teaching times will explore several real encounters people had with Jesus—hurting people, skeptical people, self-reliant people, and even those who thought they were beyond hope. In each story, students will see how Jesus brings forgiveness, purpose, identity, and lasting transformation to those who come to Him.
Our goal is to help Jr. High and High School students understand that genuine spiritual change doesn’t come from trying harder, but from drawing near to the Savior who knows them, loves them, and has the power to make them new. Through biblical teaching, small-group discussion, and personal reflection, we’ll encourage students to see how Jesus can reshape their own lives, habits, and hearts.
Teachers at CHANGED: Encounters with Jesus, will be our own Pastor Josh Arellano and guest speaker David Doran Jr., from Resurrection Church in Lincoln Park, MI.
Weekly Student Ministry
Student Ministry is for students from 6th through 12th grade and meets from 6:30-8:30 pm, every Wednesday. Student Ministry meets at Canyon Bible Church of Prescott located at 6215 Willow Creek Road in Prescott.
We make it our ambition to see the Gospel advanced among our students as they are saved, sanctified, and serving.
We recognize that the Student Ministry is, in many ways, a ministry in which we come alongside parents. They are the ones primarily responsible for the spiritual state of their own children, so we want to partner with parents in the lives of their teenage children to watch the Lord do great things in their family as their children come to know Christ and grow to be like Him.
We do this through relationships, and we seek to build those relationships through Sunday morning worship services together with the Body of Christ, Wednesday night Bible study, annual camps, and regular youth events. At those services, camps, and events, we do this through preaching, evangelism, and discipleship. As other members of the body of Christ come alongside teenagers in discipleship, we share with them not only the Gospel of God but also our very lives, because they have become so dear to us.
“But we proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children. Having so fond an affection for you, we were well-pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us. …just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children so that you would walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.” (1 Thess 2:7-12 NASB)
Any other questions? We'd love to help! Feel free to email or call our Student Ministry Pastor Josh Arellano.
Student Ministry Pastor Josh Arellano
Email: jarellano@canyonprescott.org
Phone: 928.237.9520