Upcoming Guests
Thursday January 9, 2025
Nostalgia Games Café
George and Sophia Zeng believe some of the best memories are made when people gather around a table, disconnected from screens and distractions, and engage in friendly competition and genuine conversation. Their goal is to create a space that takes you back to the joy, comfort and excitement of your childhood, where you can make new lasting memories.
They’ve partnered with a number of local businesses to create a vibrant community hub with a carefully curated collection of board games, delicious food, and a bunch of other goodies. They host regular game nights, tournaments and events where people can come together over a shared enthusiasm for a given board game.
Nostalgia Games Café offers something for everyone, whether you’re a seasoned strategist, a casual player, or just stopping by for a coffee.
http://www.nostalgiagamescafe.com/
Wednesday January 8, 2025
Angie Peters
President and CEO
Yonge Street Mission
Angie Peters is an inspiring and collaborative leader in Toronto's social sector. She spent 16 years as a senior executive in telecommunications before moving into the social profit sector to support initiatives investing in people and working towards the end of poverty. Angie has served as President and CEO of Yonge Street Mission for 10 years, and has since set the organization on a path toward realizing the end of generational poverty in Toronto in one generation. Prior to joining YSM, Angie founded and led ZOE Alliance Inc., a for-profit social enterprise that equipped and empowered village-based businesses in developing nations for sustainable growth.
In 2024, Angie will become a published author with the launch of her new book, Just Act: We are the Solution to Poverty, an inspirational guide for people, businesses and community organizations concerned about poverty to develop a measurable action plan to help address poverty with effective initiatives while addressing barriers to success.
http://www.ysm.ca/
Neil Hetherington
Chief Executive Officer
Daily Bread Food Bank
Neil Hetherington joined Daily Bread Food Bank as CEO in January 2018. Neil began his career in project management at Tridel Construction, Canada’s largest condominium developer. In September 2000, he made a career change by joining Habitat for Humanity Toronto, at the time as the youngest CEO of a Habitat affiliate in the world. Neil’s non-profit experience includes 16 years as CEO of Habitat for Humanity in Toronto, and then New York City, and two years as CEO of Dixon Hall, a multi-service agency with 240 staff serving thousands of people in Toronto through its social programs, shelters, seniors’ programs, youth initiatives and community revitalization efforts. Neil holds degrees and certificates from the University of Western Ontario – Huron College, Seneca College, Harvard Business School, and the University of Virginia – Darden Business School. He obtained his MBA from the University of Western Ontario’s Ivey Business School in 2013. He is an active pilot and sailor. He enjoys furniture making and in his spare time plays tennis terribly, snowboards poorly, and bikes slowly.
http://www.dailybread.ca/
Tuesday January 7, 2025
Karen Stiller
Senior Editor of Faith Today Magazine
Host of Faith Today Podcast
Karen Stiller is author of the newly released Holiness Here: Searching for God in the Ordinary Events of Everyday Life and The Minister's Wife: a memoir of faith, doubt, friendship, loneliness, forgiveness and more, and co-author of Craft, Cost & Call: How to Build a Life as a Christian Writer. She is a writer whose work has appeared in Reader's Digest, The Walrus, Ekstatis, Christianity Today, and many other publications. She is a senior editor of the Canadian magazine Faith Today and hosts the Faith Today Podcast, where she has interviewed thinkers, leaders and writers like Kate Bowler, Philip Yancey, Ann Voskamp, Scott Erickson and many more tellers of important stories. Karen's work has taken her to South Sudan, Uganda, Senegal, Cambodia and across North America, reporting on stories that are from the Church and of the Church. She has moderated the Religion and Society Series at the University of Toronto, a debate between leading atheists and theologians. Karen loves to teach writing and coach writers on the journey.
http://www.karenstiller.com/
Monday January 6, 2025
Carol McLeod
President of Carol McLeod Ministries, Author, Speaker
Author “Overflowing: Living Abundantly in a Broken Culture”
Have the demands of life sucked the joy out of your heart? Have politics, the media and the constant barrage of negativity caused you to become hopeless or even confused?
Join Carol McLeod for an in-depth study of the book of Colossians in the New Testament. Bible scholars through the ages have believed this epistle, written by the apostle Paul, is the most Christ-centered book in the Bible.
Your life is about to collide with eternal truth and with the answers for which you have been aching. This collision will enlarge your faith, strengthen your resolve, and set you into your destiny in Christ. This is your moment, my friend, to shatter the doubts of yesterday and to smash limited thinking.
http://www.carolmcleodministries.com/
Friday January 3, 2025
Jasmine Brady
Worship Leader and Pastor, Podcasters
From an early age, Jasmine began singing and writing songs while appearing on several Gaither Homecoming videos and the Gaither Homecoming Kids video series. As a teenager, Jasmine began leading worship around the country before attending Lee University as a part of the Voices of Lee, a world renown A Cappella vocal ensemble.
Jasmine continues to pursue her passion for worship as Worship Pastor for Regeneration Nashville, pastored by her father, Pastor Kent Christmas. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Leadership from Austin Peay State University, has written countless worship songs, and recorded several worship albums.
Married to JonMichael Brady since 2009, Jasmine & JonMichael have a son, Cooper, and two daughters, Adele & Mavis Bleue.
http://www.jasminebrady.com/