It has been a great day. Tonight we did walkabouts; we made sandwiches and coffee and carried socks and took them around downtown. We met lots of interesting people and definitely began some new relationships.

After that we did some work unloading food into a food bank. One of my favorite moments from this time was when we created an assembly line to pass the food and to keep ourselves occupied we sang Christmas carols.

Just hard to believe our week is already half over. We get to sleep in a little bit more than normal tomorrow morning.

I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving!

Brendan

We have discovered that this is true. It was never heavy rain, but rather a constant watery presence. We spent most of our day outside. We went on prayer walks, which are essentially a guided tour of the city with instructions on how to pray at each place.

Then we went to an amazing exhibit designed to shed light on how many people live, primarily after natural disasters. The goal of this time was to increase our sensitivity to people’s needs, a valuable lesson for the week.

Tonight we will be outside again. We are breaking into groups and walking around with hot chocolate; we are going to use it to make friends with local homeless and start conversation with them.

Hard to believe that our week is pretty much half over!

Please pray that we continue to have good spirits; wet weather can be discouraging. So far we’ve handled it well, and I hope that continues!

We are all set in our home for the week. We spent a great evening praying and encouraging each other, and now we are heading for bed. It will be lots of early mornings and long days, so please pray for good rest!

Brendan