This is Todd.

I don’t know Todd really well, but he (and his wife and their brood of children) are going to be missionaries in Turkey. In the short time I did know him, he taught me something very important, that I remembered tonight…
I have never seen Todd without a smile on his face. We worked together at [...]

Posted on July 10th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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We Like Roy!

Let’s try this another way. Here’s how to be, happy — my formula, anyway. If you’re interested in other formulae, I’m sure there’s someone out there who can fill you in.
WORK
And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward [...]

Posted on May 4th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Do You Feel Alive?

For as long as I’ve known my bride — even before she was my bride — one of the things we’ve most enjoyed doing together is dreaming about the future. At some point this may be a problem in our relationship — eventually we’ll be too old to have a future to plan for. But [...]

Posted on March 9th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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VPT FTW!

Joey, James, Shannon, Jon, Paul, Karl, Alicia, Caroline and sometimes William, Cherish and Sarah: We love you guys!

Thank you so much for a couple of final get-togethers. It was so great to see you all again and realise how much you’ve grown and how much you’re continuing to grow. We are proud of each of [...]

Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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To the VPT

Thank you guys so much for the video. It was a wonderful bookmark for this chapter in our lives — one we will always look back on fondly, with you guys in so many of our memories.
We are so very proud of each of you, and how you’ve grown in the past year and a [...]

Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Every day I wake I tell myself a little harmless lie:
The whole wide world is mine

Well its done. The last difficult conversation has been had, so I can share our news with you all. This likely won’t come as a surprise — to those who don’t already know. But its big for us, and its been important to approach it as the massive challenge that it is…
We’re moving back to [...]

Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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World Missions

Something that I’ve noted of late, in most of the churches we’ve seen over the past few years, is a reduced focus on global missions. Our current church is something of an exception, but in general I think its fair to say that missionaries over-seas get a lot less air time than they used to.
When [...]

Posted on December 13th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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The Idea Virus

The notion that an idea can become contagious, in precisely the same way that a virus does, is at once common-sensical and deeply counter-intuitive. It is common-sensical because all of us have seen it happen: all of us have had a hit song lodged in our heads, or run out to buy a book, or [...]

Posted on September 9th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Singing in the rain

This afternoon I went by the church to drop off some random cables and CDs I’d found tucked away in trunks and laptop bags. Things that had been a part of this other life we’ve lived for the past 18 months — called ministry. I visited with the guys in the production booth, busy working [...]

Posted on September 8th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Nine12 Serves

Yesterday afternoon our crew, including one person from Ontario, left the church for a missions trip to Staten Island, NY, where they’ll be serving in a soup kitchen, a home for battered women and their children, and other related ministries. We are not with them, although we wish we were, but we did have the [...]

Posted on August 27th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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