CEO of Sydney’s Wayside Chapel Jon Owen and his pastor wife, Lisa, help some of society’s most disadvantaged while also facing their own family issues.
Jon Owen, 48, the CEO of Sydney’s Wayside Chapel, and his pastor wife, Lisa, 53, sealed their relationship with a plastic ring from a 40-cent machine. The pair help some of society’s neediest while facing their own family challenges.
By then I was calling him every day on the phone “for work”. Then I thought, “I’ll see what happens if I stop.” Two days later, he turned up at my door, and said, “What’s going on?”Lisa Owen His approach is always to ask: “What would Love do in this situation – right here and now?” He asks himself that at work, or when I’m cranky about him using the wrong pot. He’s an incredible man. I’m so grateful to have found him.I met Lisa in 1997, when I did a two-week live-in course she was leading at a Christian outreach organisation. She was cranky because I showed up late. But I ended up joining and she became my manager. We got along well, but I wasn’t thinking anything romantic.
But I was so immature. At one stage we went to San Francisco to check out a similar mission, and we were sleeping out in Golden Gate Park. The idea was to beg for food, but I snuck in some money and while everyone was starving, I bought a cigar. She said, “Stop acting like the annoying little brother I never had!”
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