Toronto 2007
Just got back from a crazy two days in Toronto planning our trip for April. Toronto is a great city, tons of divesity, tons of different ethnic groups, and some awesome food -- goat is good by the way. Some thoughts that hit me while I was walking through homeless shelters and subsidized housing and inner city churches.

• God is good -- He is EXTREMELY good to me and to most of the people I live with in Kalamazoo -- we live like kings compared to most people in the world.
• People just want a purpose to live -- if you help them see their purpose you will see a person become excited about life and begin to live it to its fullest.
• Respect is essential in feeling valued -- show someone respect and they will respect you, fail to show people respect only burns bridges.
• Finally -- being Jesus means getting your hands dirty and your comfort zone stretched by showing love to the poor, the widows, the needy, the less fortunate -- that is where compassion and love start

Looking forward to the trip with over 30 of my favorite people. Jesus is going to show us something big.

Brad