Jonathan Thiessen is a speaker, venture builder, and the Co-Founder of Scatter. His curiosity around the challenging places in the world has taken him to 75 countries, including living and working in the former Soviet Union for the best part of 14 years. During this time, he served in various communities, exploring how faith and good work might be better integrated to solve local challenges and create jobs for the disenfranchised. By encountering the role of redemptive entrepreneurship in cross-boundary contexts, Jonathan has recently co-founded several startups from pre-seed to early stage. He continues to be passionate about how a more deeply integrated practice of life, formed by the way of Jesus better shapes us to love our neighbor well.
For many Christians, the idea of partnering with God has been narrowed to a familiar set of categories: church work, evangelism, discipleship, and the saving of souls. All of these matter deeply. But the biblical vision of God’s mission and our vocations is far larger than that. We need a bigger perspective: a shalom view.
