Lopes Go Local, Fall 2025

By Ralph Freso

About 200 Grand Canyon University students on Saturday painted and completed landscape work at nine homes in the neighborhoods surrounding the campus as part of the semiannual Lopes Go Local in partnership with Habitat for Humanity. Story

  • Student volunteers dance before breaking into their project teams during Lopes Go Local on Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Students gather into teams at the fall 2025 Lopes Go Local on Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Todd Rogers, president and CEO of Habitat for Humanity Central Arizona, addresses the student volunteers at the outset of Lopes Go Local. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Spiritual Life Director Erik Nelsen thanks students for volunteering their time during Lopes Go Local. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Student volunteers during Lopes Go Local. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Student volunteers make their way to their service project sites at Lopes Go Local. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Habitat for Humanity site managers direct student volunteers at one of the service project homes during Lopes go Local. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Student volunteer Brett Klinger scrapes old paint to prep a house for painting during the Lopes Go Local. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Student volunteer Sophia Henning tapes off windows and trim at the fall 2025 Lopes Go Local. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Student volunteer Scout Sneller rolls on a coat of paint on a home during Lopes Go Local. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Todd Rogers, president and CEO of Habitat for Humanity Central Arizona, talks with GCU President Brian Mueller on a project site. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Student volunteers on a painting project site during the Lopes Go Local - Habitat for Humanity event. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Student volunteer Ashley Johnson paints the window trim of a home during Lopes Go Local. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Home owner Tony Sanchez watches as students paint his home during Lopes Go Local. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Student volunteer Ellie Brown rolls on a coat of paint on a home during Lopes Go Local. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • GCU President Brian Mueller (right) joined in to help students paint a home during Lopes Go Local. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Student volunteers paint a home during Lopes Go Local. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Student volunteers pose for a picture with home owner Tony Sanchez (front center) after painting his house. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Student volunteers load wheelbarrows with landscape rock at a Lopes Go Local service project. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Senior Hope Ingalls pushes a load of landscape rock at a service project during Lopes Go Local. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • ASGCU student body vice president Dianne Carla Mae Nasibog (right) helps level some of the 31 tons of landscape rock at a Lopes Go Local service project. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Student volunteers at a landscaping service project during Lopes Go Local. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Student volunteer Carson Goodrich digs a hole for a mesquite tree during Lopes Go Local. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Student volunteers finish planting a desert spoon plant during Lopes Go Local. Nov. 1, 2025.
  • Student volunteers and Habitat staff with homeowners (center) after landscaping their property with plants and 31 tons of rock. Nov. 1, 2025.

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August 2026

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