Joseph Wong, M.Div.

Executive Director

Joseph has been a member of the Cascadia Living Wisdom community since 2018.  Assuming the role of Executive Director in 2020, he is responsible for the development and management of the administrative, marketing and financial aspects of Cascadia, sharing with Dr. Benner the responsibility for the oversight and shaping of the culture of Cascadia and the nurture and shepherding of the community. 

Following his spiritual pilgrimage to Camino de Santiago in 2015, Joseph realized his vocation and calling to offer a hospitable and non-judgmental space to people who feel lost in their direction, and to journey with those who are struggling in faith and seeking to be renewed in the Divine. Joseph has completed his Master of Divinity degree at Tyndale Seminary, majoring in Spiritual Formation.

Joseph is the current Director of the Tyndale Spiritual Formation Centre (TSFC), where he provides direction and oversees spiritual formational programs and services to promote the field of Spiritual Formation, spiritual growth and opportunities for people to give attention to their souls. Joseph also works with the Tyndale Association of Spiritual Directors (TASD) to connect the faith community with spiritual directors as a sacred companion on their spiritual journey.

Joseph currently serves as a Pastor at Mosaic Baptist Church in the greater Toronto area. With his art psychotherapist partner, ChrisB,he is also the co-founder of The Way We Art, an organization that offers spiritual direction and art therapy to students, and seminars to the wider community of those with mental and spiritual health needs. Joseph also founded the Haven Community to provide a safe, trusted space for the “Dones” - Christians who have left the church or have lost their faith. Its aim is to help them build a supportive spiritual community; reconnect with God through finding new expressions of, and interaction with, faith; share their struggles in faith, relationships, sexuality, spiritual and mental well being; and discern their vocations and life choices.

He is passionate in bringing together theology and social justice, spirituality with culture and arts, and walking with fellow Christians to rediscover God’s presence and calling in their lives. He works with the First Nations community in Northwestern Ontario, facilitating workshops and activities to help the indigenous youth to establish a healthy self-image, heal spiritual wounds and share their stories and changes they wish to see through the safe channel of art and film. He designed and led the “Reel Nation” filmmaker workshop series to teach aspiring filmmakers in the First Nations community how to let their voices be heard through film, as well as preserve the oral teachings and life stories from the respected elders of the community. He has also organized and led trips to care for the students and teachers who suffered from PTSD in the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake in China, and youth leaders who are suffering from poverty and the AIDS epidemic in the rural areas of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 

Joseph is well seasoned in program development and facilitation of educational and formational programs with over ten years of ministry experience in his role as the Program Director at Across U-hub. He and his team have designed and delivered over 1,600 youth leadership programs, camps, conferences and activities to address the social, emotional and mental health needs of over 85,000 participants in the Greater Toronto Area over the last ten years. Joseph has co-published the SHARP curriculum, an innovative after-school program which has been adopted by the Toronto District School Board, currently being administered in five high schools to support the holistic development and needs of international students and new immigrants. 

Joseph loves to travel and make pilgrimages to Holy Places and Sacred Sites like the Holy Lands of Israel and Jordan. He also loves to study the Celtic Spirituality that underlies such places as Iona and Lindisfarne in Scotland. He has completed the Camino Frances and Camino del Norte/ Primitivo pilgrimage routes and is looking forward to leading others on pilgrimages in these areas. Joseph is also an avid film lover and photographer having studied Film Production at Ryerson University in Toronto.