Sanctuary

today was the first time going to church. i absolutely loved the service. it was great! i love worshipping in other countries! its so great to see how universal the Lord is! i also just love seeing complete genuine worship from the whole congregation. (not that we don't have that in the states..its just smaller churches with new believers come across as more sincere. does that make sense?) but God's love extends across every border. and thats just sooo exciting!

our team decided to model the story of the battle of jericho in the book of joshua on the campus of the University of Toronto in Mississauga. so for this week we plan to walk around the campus 1 time each day and then the 7th day walk around 7 times to symbolize that we have faith God will break down any spiritual walls around the campus and win the battle for us.

so brett, our supervisor and pastor at the Sanctuary, preached on that exact passage in joshua this morning!! what confirmation! just proof that God is backing us up allll the way! it was so neat to experience that.

so after church we went back to brett's house for lunch and to discuss our plans for the week. then we went grocery shopping as a team. afterwards, alyssa and i decided we wanted to head into the city for a festival that was going on. it ended up being an indian festival..and we were probably the only caucausians there..but it was still pretty awesome! on the way..we met ziad at the bus stop. we ended up talking to ziad for probably about 30 minutes or so. really be praying for ziad, because we will most likely hang out with him again..and hopefully share the gospel! he's from egypt and wants to go to college in florida. but he seemed interested in what we were doing and really wanted to hang out again. so theres tons of potential there!!

i really can't wait to see just all that God is gonna do. i know that we make plans, and have expectations..and it completely excites me to think that God's plans are FAR better and He will go above and beyond our expectations!! how COOL is that! :)

tomorrow we hit the UTM campus..and we're basically going to be prayerwalking all day. there is power in prayers..and i can't wait to experience it!!