La Vina was founded by husband-and-wife team Fred and Debbie Collom, with the intention of bringing change to impoverished communities in Mexico. Fred had made several exploration and research trips into Mexico to find a suitable community in which to begin work, and in 1978, Fred and Debbie moved from East Peoria, Illinois to Fresnillo, in the state of Zacatecas, in Mexico. Shortly after, they set up shop in Mazatlan.

By 2001, La Vina had become a charitable organization operating five children's feeding centres, a dental clinic (with two others under construction), and a children's scholarship program that helps children who have never attended school before. Thirty children are now on full-time sponsor programs. 2005, they also provided 16,000 bags of groceries to families in need. The church also operates a mobile kitchen that has fed thousands of children and adults in Mazatlan's poorest colonials. Plans are in the works to build a school specifically for children whose parents are "dump scroungers" and the organization now owns land in seven different colonials where they are developing more community centres for sustainable economic and social development.

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