Tuesday-In the City

When I think of Toronto and our attempt to somehow reach out to people with God's love, I think of the song by Kutless: "I see the city lights all around me/everyone's obscure/ ten million people each with their problems/why should anyone care." We were compelled to care for people because Jesus was compelled to care for us. The way that we did this was by going to the University of Toronto on a Tuesday afternoon and try to gauge the spiritual interest that the university students had by going through some surveys and starting conversations with them. Tim Hortons coffee coupons were used to help encourage people to pause for a few minutes. Some of their answers seemed spiritually colder towards Christianity than the blustery cold wind we felt that day; yet, many of their answers revealed an honest searching for something more than what they already know. At the very least, they were forced to think about it. Will we ever see any change in some of the students? Probably not. We have to leave that with God; all He wanted us to do was to show love and compassion on people He placed in front of us just as He showed us love and compassion. Please pray for Toronto. -Jonathon Clay <><

Monday-A bright sunny day

On Monday, March 10th we got up early enough to make a Timmy Horton run (that's coffee for you that don't know), for breakfast before making it to a Realtor Bible study at a church member's home. It was really neat to meet some of the church members and listen to their sharp Canadian accents as they explained their views and perceptions of Christ and how He works in us.
Chris Adams led the study teaching us about submission to Christ and submission to higher authorities in our lives. Real life world examples helped us to relate to the text of God's word such as obeying the speed limits on the roads, bosses at work and God. We discussed how people today tend to ignore commands and laws for their own benefit.
On the other side of the coin, we discussed how in some situations, it is absolutely necessary for us as Christians to obey God, place Him first over man and man's authority/laws. Examples of this would be to share Christ in a foreign country that mandates sharing Christ is illegal.
After we said our goodbyes at the study, we made our way to Casey's, a restaurant similar to T.G.I.F.'s. People ate meals that ranged from a bison buffalo burger to Indian curry sandwiches. Once these tasty meals were completed, we ventured back to the Adams' home where we finished off the afternoon with the majority of young adults playing in the backyard. Not only did they play, they also created a snow person that resembled Janet Anglin (it appeared to be carrying and baby snowman) complete with earmuffs and scarf. A snowball fight also ensued during the time outside with David Anglin capturing the event with his trusty videocam.
For dinner, we chowed down on cold cut and cheese sandwiches with salad on the side. The evening ended with loud conversations, laughing, joking and watching "Transformers." It was awesome to watch it while counting all the times TV Guardian nipped in the bud the inappropriate comments. - Alison Culver

Toronto finally!!!!!

So we are now finally in Toronto safely!!  Even through the crazy times of one flight being canceled, having only our carry ons, that some of us had very few essentials, and having our GPS take us on to a pedestrian bridge at Niagara falls (oops), by the grace of GOD we were able to catch an earlier flight to Buffalo.  The night before we got stuck in Detroit because of some weather problems and our next flight was not supposed to leave until 9:30 p.m. Sunday night (about 3 hours after the enterprise rental car desk closes).  God was looking after us and we were ALL able to catch a flight, that was over booked and was impossible for us to get on to, 12 hours before our original flight was supposed to leave.  Now we are graciously in Toronto relaxing and fellowshiping with the Adams family!!

Tomorrow we will be getting into the ministry groove and will be participating in a relators bible study!

Update from Detroit

We're spending the night in Detroit tonight. Our flight to Buffalo got canceled, but God is in control of all things. Had our flight not gotten canceled, one of our team members would have missed the flight because her flight to Detroit was delayed. God has shown himself to be in control of every part of the trip so far even in the circumstances that seem like an inconvenience. 

Continue to pray for the team:

Alison Culver

Aubrey Waisner

Candace King

David Anglin

Jonathon Clay

Clay DeBolt

Chris Herndon

David Windham

LHBC 20Somethings

Overflow Toronto '08

March 8th-15th

Pray.