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Hi friends :)
We've got some fun updates to share with you all!
- Our very first AWAKEN Night is on February 27th! We will be hosted by Venture Christian Church in Carmel, IN. This is a special one in that we are not just inviting young adults and students, but everyone! If you're in the area, we would love to see you there. Please join us in prayer for this special night! RSVP HERE so we have a headcount.
- Our next AWAKEN Night is scheduled for March 27th in Fullerton, CA at Hope International University! Outside of that event, we have a lot of ministry commitments that week (trainings, speaking, prayer times, and worship leading). Please pray for us and our team!
- We are seeing massive steps forward in our development of Ignite Discipleship School (IDS). There is still much to do before students arrive in June, but we're getting there!
- We have been asking the Lord to reveal where he wants us to take AWAKEN in the Spring and Fall of 2026. We asked Him to open doors to the places he wanted us, and to close the ones where it wasn't time yet. Needless to say, He has definitely done that! Just in the last week, we have been connected with several universities that may lead to really exciting fruit! Please please pray with us that the Lord continues to give wisdom and discernment as we talk with these universities. Let's see more souls awakened to Christ!
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GIVING UPDATE
Our biggest update yet... we are 100% funded monthly!!!
We're honestly blown away.
Seven months ago, the Lord told us to quit our jobs for a new chapter of ministry and promised that He would provide for us. And here we are now receiving applications for IDS this summer, getting ready to do our first AWAKEN Night, and sharing that we have fully funded salaries; it's genuinely surreal.
If you are part of that, THANK YOU! Thank you honestly doesn't even feel like enough. Thank you for your generosity and partnering with us to see His Kingdom come here among this generation. It really does mean everything to us. The Lord has used your generosity to BLESS us.
It is not too late to give if you feel like the Lord is stirring you! Even though our goal has been reached, anything more is still such a blessing and help to our family and ministry.
ACCOUNT DESIGNATION CODE: Ignite-Hwrd.NMW
We are so grateful for each of you and how you are walking with us in this journey!
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SOMETHING GOD IS STIRRING IN US
Genesis 28:16 -- "Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.” This is ringing in our minds as we prepare for our Spring AWAKEN Nights. Our desire is for students to experience the same thing as Jacob - to have a moment in which God encounters them and they "wake up" saying "Surely the Lord is in this place, He is active in my life, and I didn't even realize it."
As we ponder this, we wonder to ourselves how often we are unaware of the Lord's presence and work around us. How wonderful it would be to have eyes to see all the restoration and goodness that God is doing! Praise be to God that, in his grace, he delights to give us such awareness of his work as we commune with him and attune ourselves to His Spirit within us.
Our encouragement to you is simple: open your eyes.
The Lord is in this place.
He is alive and active.
He is redeeming things in our midst.
He is inviting us into "greater things" with Him.
But if we don't wake up, if we don't open our eyes, we could go our whole lives not knowing it.
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. - John 15:15
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New with us? This is What we do.
Welcome! We are Nick and Mady Wise, we are U.S.-based missionaries under an organization called The Ignite Network. The Ignite Network exists to magnify the King and multiply His Kingdom-- from Him, through Him, and for Him.
For the last 17 years, our friends Josh and Lashi Howard have led a ministry called Ignite, primarily working in global missions. Just last year, Ignite saw 84,054 people come to faith in Jesus, 122,614 people trained in ministry, and 11,525 churches planted. Praise God!!
What the Lord has invited us to do is to expand Ignite's presence further into the US and into other areas of ministry by creating an open-handed network dedicated to the Great Commission, raising up disciple makers who carry the Kingdom of God everywhere they go and creating abundant ministry opportunities for those the Lord has called. In the very near future, we will see several "arms" of the network doing important ministry: Ignite the Nations (global missions), Ignite Church Planting (US and global church planting), Ignite Hope (ministering to widows and orphans), and Ignite Next Gen (AWAKEN Nights and the Ignite Discipleship School) which is what the two of us are mainly overseeing.
Narrowing in now, here are some more details about what is going on with our areas: Ignite Discipleship School and AWAKEN Nights.
Ignite Discipleship School (IDS)
- IDS will offer two programs - an 8 week summer program and an 8 month program for students taking a gap year or recently graduated (from HS or college). Whichever program a student participates in, our goal is for our students to know the heart of the Father for them, to come alive in His Spirit, be fully trained and equipped to make disciples, and be sent out into the world. Wherever they end up, they will learn to carry the love and power of God every day. They will be trained in things like evangelism, prayer, spiritual rhythms, biblical literacy, leadership, etc. Our summer program starts June 1st! Know someone that would be interested? Here is our application.
AWAKEN Nights
- The goal of AWAKEN Nights is this: we want to awaken the next generation to the love of God and the reality of His Spirit. We want to see students experience the profound freedom of the Gospel! These events will be 2-3 hours of worship, prayer, speaking, and response; each minute will be incredibly intentional in creating a space for students to encounter the Lord. Here are our Spring 2026 Events.
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LIVING FOR HIM,
NICK AND MADY WISE
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