by Kat Bair | Nov 6, 2024 | Blog, Client Stories
When I met Mike and Jeannie Norris, they were the lay leader and finance chair, respectively, of a rural, small town church. It was a healthy, happy church with Sunday morning services with live music and preaching, board meetings, coffee and donuts after, a monthly...
by Kat Bair | Oct 29, 2024 | Blog, Big Ideas
We at Ministry Incubators pretty much exclusively work with people who are in a state of profound change. Be they solo innovators, denominational bodies, or congregations, everyone we meet is in the messy emergence of something new. While every context is unique, and...
by Kat Bair | Oct 24, 2024 | Blog, Big Ideas
I grew up in Nashville, and was a kid who loved to sing from a very young age. I would perform for anyone who listened, and always wanted to be on stage. One of the upsides of being a kid who’s into performing in Nashville is that there are lot of opportunities. One...
by Kat Bair | Oct 15, 2024 | Blog, Big Ideas
Among those who study consciousness and evolutionary biology, there’s a question so basic and so unsolvable that it’s simply called “the hard problem.”1 The hard problem is, in basic terms, how did the mind/soul/consciousness come to exist? When did creation as...
by Kat Bair | Oct 11, 2024 | Blog, Big Ideas
One of my early church jobs was as a youth pastor at a church that had a youth ministry that deeply siloed from the rest of the congregation. We operated in our own building, with our own volunteers and staff, largely disconnected from the larger congregation. Our...
