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Our History
In 1998, Eduardo and Enith
Jimenez founded Canaan to provide a refuge for drug
addicts and alcoholics desperate for help. It was a
supernatural appointment by God—while worshiping in a Miami church,
Eduardo heard God’s voice to donate part of his land in Baranoa,
Colombia for the creation of a
City of Refuge.
Not knowing where to
begin, Eduardo went to meet with Andres Ruiz who, not even seconds
earlier, heard God’s voice saying “a man will be coming out to ask
you for help.” Andres brought Eduardo to meet Brother Mickey Evans,
founder of Dunklin Memorial Camp, a drug and alcohol regeneration
program located in Okeechobee, Florida.
These three men flew
down to Baranoa, Colombia and walked around the property to pray for
God to supply the funds and men to build this City of Refuge.
This was in 1997. One-year later, on April 21, 1998, Canaan
was inaugurated.
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Work
Therapy Program
Part of
Canaan’s program is its work therapy, which provides
skills and work ethic for the men in the program and brings
in 20 percent of the operational income of the camp.
Canaan’s industries
include a bakery, agriculture, hog
operation, and organic fertilizer.
 Every man that has gone
through the program built a part of the camp.
Further, each participates in logistical work areas vital to the
operations of the community, such as the kitchen,
laundry area, landscaping, construction crew, and
maintenance.
Canaan also has a recovery church catering to the
families of the men in the program and staff members.
Support groups and home groups were born out of this
fellowship and they train communities surrounding Canaan’s
City of Refuge to heal and help wounded people.
Finally,
throughout the years as Canaan graduated men in the program,
a training center was born to equip these men and
their families to help wounded people and start other Cities
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