The Toronto Story Is Bigger Than Just One Night

God is always at work, painting on a canvass bigger than our ability to fully comprehend. He's in motion before we arrive on the scene and continues to accomplish His purposes long after we have gone. Our role is to be "with Him" in the moment, carrying well the baton while it's in our hands...faithfully passing it on to those who follow while always remembering those who have gone before.

While Passion was in Toronto for one night, God's story in your city has been going on since the beginning of time. There is a rich history there of God's faithfulness as generations of men and women have sought to follow Him and make Him known. And He's doing amazing things today! Just think of the amazing sight of seeing almost 5000 university-aged young people going for His heart in worship last Tuesday. But was that all the university-aged followers in the city? Of course not! Some had to work. Others had classes they couldn't skip. :) And I'm sure some (despite the fact that the buzz was massive) didn't even know about it. (we missed you).

Hopefully, we are now convinced that there is a small army of believers on the campuses of Ontario, and certain that army is much bigger than what we saw last Tuesday night. God is at work in the GTA. His kingdom is advancing in every part of the city!

Why did we come? Because we love university students and fully believe you are at the pivotal crossroad of life. And because ignited in vision and passion you can change the world around you. And we hoped a night like this would help us all see that there are Jesus-followers everywhere in Toronto, a city strategically poised to touch the whole world for His renown.

Our prayer is that the vision God has planted in your hearts will be strengthened exponentially because of Passion Toronto... vision for what He is doing and can do and vision for how much louder our voices are when they are one.

We at Passion have carried the desire to come to Toronto for several years now, but we couldn't have done it by ourselves. Passion Toronto was fully paid for by the students at Passion 05! Thank you to the those who gave so kindly last year in Nashville. God used your generosity to make Passion Toronto possible, and we were humbled by the opportunity to invest your resources in such a beautiful city filled with endless possibilities. We are grateful.

Many of you have asked about a video of the night. Sadly, the night will have to live in our memories as we did not set all the plans in motion necessary to make a CD or DVD of the night. But we did shoot footage of Passion Toronto that will be made into a short glimpse of the night to be shown at Passion 06 and beyond as we continue the Boston, NY, Toronto story, and invite many to consider the opportunity to join you in Canada as God does more than we could ask or imagine.

Louie