Pena: Cosette Pena

Cosette Pena: Now, 20 years after it was founded in 1992, the tiny evangelical church in Montreal where Pena forged vital links to the Filipino community in Canada is bursting at the seams with new members and searching for a new, larger building to call home, according to CTV. "If people have problems -- they are depressed, they miss their families -- then it's a way of coping." MONTREAL -- Lonely, depressed and missing her family in the Philippines, Cosette Pena looked to God in hopes of finding comfort in her new adoptive country. "I found a connection immediately because the people are so friendly," said the 53-year-old Pena, one of thousands of Filipinos who have settled in Canada through the federal government's live-in caregiver program. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.