by Kat Bair | Dec 3, 2024 | Blog, Big Ideas
Today, we are wrapping up a series we have been doing on how we engage with those who fight, question, and doubt us. The series, which we started more than a month ago, but which has taken some mild diversions, has been based around the idea of Havruta – a idea...
by Kat Bair | Nov 25, 2024 | Big Ideas, Client Stories, Blog
This week, we’re continuing our Havruta series on how to most faithfully engage with and learn from those who push back on, doubt, and detract from your ideas. These can be volunteers, lay leaders, parents of young people you work with, investors, etc. Anyone who has...
by Kat Bair | Nov 15, 2024 | Blog, Big Ideas
A few weeks ago, we started a series on how to engage with people who aren’t sure about your idea. We took a divergence (which I do not regret in the slightest) to talk about the Norrises, but I wanted to return to this: having people who give you push back on your...
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...
