I have a few minutes of down time before our evening activity, so I thought I would give y’all a quick update on Day Two.

We picked up David at the airport without any issues. One of our city directors, Josh, took me out there, and then dropped David and me off to join up with our group. They had done the sandwich run, handing out sack lunches to homeless people. When we got there, they were debriefing and a lady from Project 417 – a ministry to the homeless – was speaking with our group and two others. I didn't hear most of the talk because we got there late. However, she dropped a statistic that floored me: Teenagers often run away to Toronto because it’s the one big city in Canada, and within three weeks, 80% of those teen runaways are involved in prostitution. This is a huge problem in this city, obviously.

This morning we had a late start again. Thank goodness because we are wiped! This morning, we participated in Operation Hydration, where we went to a park with a high homeless concentration and handed out water bottles and struck up conversations with the homeless folk they encountered. I am so impressed by our group! When I was a teenager, if someone had asked me to do some of the things they are being asked to do, I would have said, “No thanks,” but our group does it without thinking twice about it. They have a much bigger heart for the world than I ever had at their age, and that will serve them well.

Lunch was fantastic! We ate at a Greek restaurant which was amazing! It turns out that the travel agent scenes from ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ were filed right across the street. Our big meal was at lunch today because tonight we are doing our Street Walk, which puts us in the shoes of a homeless person or runaway teen, and we will be eating with only $2.00. After lunch, we did our tutoring again. I’m so glad that we have these anchor sites because it is allowing us to really build relationships with the kids we are tutoring. One of our frustrations with the Houston trip was that we did so much bouncing around that we couldn’t build any relationships with anyone. Not so here. It's refreshing!

I need to wrap up to get ready tonight. I uploaded some pics last night, but have not had the chance to do so today. Actually, there won't be many pictures from today at all since we couldn't really take pictures at either our morning or evening activities. But check out what is there already by clicking here. Have a great night!