Hello family, I am having a wonderful time and I have experienced so much just within these past few days. We have gone to a men’s shelter and handed out sandwiches to some homeless men. It was so cool to be able to talk with some of them. But last night had to be the best. We ran around the city of Toronto with only 2 dollars (given by our guides) and had to role play the life of a homeless 14 year old. I had a hotdog from one of those cool stands on the side of the rode, it was great! Mindy and I are having a blast as roomies and buddies. Erin, Philip, Mindy and I all had a lot of great laughs today and I am meeting a bunch of really great people. Please pray for Philip, he began to come down with a little cold the first day we came, so pray for quick healing, which is already occurring. I am missing you and can’t wait to tell you about every little detail.
Sending ALL my love,
Courtney Compagner


Hey all, TWO HUGE DAYS -- I am talking about being on the streets for 15 hours a day with being up by 6:30 and not asleep until 12:00. We are pretty tired, but experiencing God in some amazing ways! Continue to pray for us -- we treasure those prayers and our faith DOES move mountains.

Today we spent in a food bank and helped sort literally a ton of food and supplies and did a PILE of work -- these guys are awesome! This afternoon some of us delivered water to homeless people on the street, others of us went into the largest subsidized housing communities and picked up trash and spent an hour picking up broken glass on the playground so that the kids could play again there. We weren't invited to clean stuff up, we just did and it was cool to see people come out and thank us for doing it. The last group of us tutored some Somali children and helped them with their homework -- only sad thing is only 7 people could help there.

Tonight my favorite food -- Somalian -- no untensils, just your hands, oh I mean your right hand -- good times.

Later on we were supposed to deliver bag lunches to homeless on the street but the driving rainstorm pushed us to head to shelters and hand them out there and starting some conversations. Rene has a story for you Joel.

Hey thanks for your prayers

Talk to you to tomorrow.