This past weekend I was in Iowa connecting with a new church plant in Ottumwa called, The Bridge.
Yes, Iowa. When I was going through security at the airport the officer looked at my boarding pass and said “Iowa?” rolled his eyes and sarcastically muttered “you’ll be having a really good time there”.
He couldn’t have [...]

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Not the brightest of videos, but I love the opening lyrics…
When I was,
A young boy,
My father, took me into the city
To see a marching band
He said, “Son when you grow up,
will you be the saviour of the broken,
the beaten and the damned?”

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Five years ago I dragged my wife from her hometown of Ottawa to the ‘big city’ of Toronto.
My wife really didn’t like Toronto, and at that time I made a thirty year plan for our lives part of it consisting of going back to Ottawa for several years.
I saw some benefits to this, as Yvz’s [...]

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No I didn’t go this year. But Yu-ling’s been doing some live blogging from the event.
If you don’t know what Urbana is, it’s a missions conference with twenty-thousand or so students every few years. See here for streaming videos of the sessions.
In keeping with blogging more this year, I’ll be posting some archived [...]

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I’m heading to Montreal monday night after class for a regional meeting with the IMN team. Last call if anyone from Toronto wants to head down there with me. You can register to here and shave $20 bucks off the at-the-door tuition costs.
Finished 3 papers this week. Plenty more ahead. The [...]

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We’re back. Refreshed, and ready to take on the world.
Lots to catch up on, and more updates to come.

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After giving my six-weeks notice, I finally packed my stuff and left the office today. I was flooded with words of appreciation and encouragement as I leave behind this fantastic place I’ve worked the past four years. It’s easy to leave something behind when you hate it anyways, but to pick up and [...]

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As I’m wrapping up my final days of work, my wife will be heading to the west coast on the 11th. We’ll be in Whistler for 2 days, Seattle for 2 days, and then Vancouver for a week or so.
Besides meeting up with old friends, I’ll be connecting with an Acts29 church planting director, [...]

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I decided to take the ViaRail (the train that connects across Canada) for my business trip to Montreal this week. There’s wi-fi acccess onboard and the image of the voxtropolis login screen with the train station came to mind. It’s amazing what humans have done to stay connected.
There is something about being on [...]

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I decided to take the ViaRail (the train that connects across Canada) for my business trip to Montreal this week. There’s wi-fi acccess onboard and the image of the voxtropolis login screen with the train station came to mind. It’s amazing what humans have done to stay connected.
There is something about being on [...]

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