Posted on Tuesday, 1st April 2008 by chris wignall

This afternoon I stopped in at the pharmacy to get the anti-malarial and antibiotic meds I’ll need for my trip to Haiti with MMI in a couple weeks. There was some confusion about my new benefits coverage, so I had a conversation with the pharmacist. He asked where I was going and it turns out [...]

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Posted on Tuesday, 1st April 2008 by chris wignall

I am very excited to be getting our mentoring program underway in the next several weeks. There are some amazing developing leaders I’ll be connecting with as they pursue the things they consider themselves called to do. For a basic outline of our mentoring program click here.

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Posted on Thursday, 27th March 2008 by chris wignall

I am generally not a fan of alliteration as a tool for presenting information. Maybe I heard too many three points and a prayer sermons as a youth. But when we were working to express the heart of our desire in what we are calling the Catalyst Foundation the ideas we talked about all seemed [...]

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Posted on Tuesday, 18th March 2008 by chris wignall

I spent some time last week with some really amazing people from the Salvation Army (Canada and Bermuda territory) at Jackson’s Point on the shore of Lake Simcoe. I’ll have lots more to share about that in the next couple days. For now, I’ll just say that helping them through a process of discerning a [...]

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Posted on Friday, 14th March 2008 by chris wignall

I’m not the most experienced leader around by any means, but I think I’ve noticed some things over the years that have proven true repeatedly. One of the strongest of these patterns is that there are some people doing amazing work that I just can’t feel good about. Something about them makes me very uncomfortable. [...]

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Posted on Monday, 3rd March 2008 by chris wignall

Almost everyone who gives their life to the benefit of others sometimes struggles with the matter of significance. Lives influenced are rarely definitive and the process is at least as full of heartbreak as it is with glory. I’m just finishing watching Mr. Holland’s Opus again. It is inspiring, even is it may be somewhat [...]

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Posted on Friday, 22nd February 2008 by chris wignall

One of the aspects of our foundation that excites me most is the development of a mentoring program for developing non-profit leaders. In my previous work as a pastor there was little that I enjoyed more than connecting regularly with young people who aspired to fulfilling their spiritual calling with boldness and wisdom. Having the [...]

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Posted on Friday, 8th February 2008 by chris wignall

I’ve always liked being the new guy. It allows me to ask questions and make observations that may be missed by those who have been involved longer. Of course, that also makes me vulnerable to wildly inaccurate suppositions based on ignorance rather than insight. The world of charitable foundations and grant-making is a new one [...]

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