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Hatchlings
Hatchlings is our blog dedicated to inspirational client stories and big ideas in ministry innovation. From astrophysics to farming to the church down the street, we believe that God-breathed, wild ideas can come from anywhere.
Scratching the Surface
In 2003, two boys emerged from the woods into the general store of a small town called Vernon, in British Columbia. The boys, both teenagers, and one severely emaciated, claimed to have been raised in the wilderness (“the bush”) outside the town, with no access to...
Tablemates
This past week was Thanksgiving, a time when many of us sat around a table with people that we don’t normally share meals with. Weird uncles, kooky aunts, intolerable Gen Z cousins, grandparents we have to repeat ourselves to over and over. In an era of extremely...
Learning the Merengue
Alternatively: People We Lead on Vacation.1 When you’re first learning to drive it's terrifying. Every turn, every stop, every lane merge requires all the focus you have, and it should! You’re operating a very large vehicle at a pretty high speed. Now I find...
Working the System
Ministry Incubators is part of the larger Ministry Architects umbrella. While we both have some unique DNA (we like to think of Incubators as the quirky little sister of eldest daughter Ministry Architects), there are enough shared values and understanding that we can...
A Good Little Monkey
Margaret and HA Rey were German Jews born near the end of the 19th century. After meeting as teenagers, they both moved to Brazil in the late 1920’s to escape the rise of Nazism. They got married and moved to Paris in 1935, thinking they were safe from the Nazi...
Action Park
In the 1980’s, there was an amusement park in New Jersey called Action Park. Designed as a weekend escape for New Yorkers by an eccentric finance millionaire, the park featured water rides, go-karts, massive slides… and almost no safety regulations. Action Park became...