by Kenda Creasy Dean | Nov 17, 2015 | Blog
– Kenda Creasy Dean One of my fabulous students, Amber Slate, led a terrific discussion today on Gallup’s Strengthfinders. She told us to beware “the hungry hamster” —referring to a strength that is over-used. Sometimes it goes rogue, cannibalizing so much of...
by Kenda Creasy Dean | Sep 29, 2015 | Blog
Thanks to entrepreneurial youth minister Matt Overton, for digging up this prayer – it says better than I can what I hope God will do with Ministry Incubators. And with me. (To join the entrepreneurial youth ministry conversation, go here). The Drake Prayer Disturb...
by Kenda Creasy Dean | Sep 15, 2015 | Blog
It’s a pendulum swing: the self-sustaining fellowship of believers, and the practice of begging—two time-worn ways we have learned to support ministry. Whenever we get seduced by the risks of one, somebody shoves the pendulum in the opposite direction. A quick...
by Kenda Creasy Dean | Aug 14, 2015 | Blog
Anna (not her real name) is a fellow lifer in youth ministry. We’ve been friends for more than two decades. Last summer over ice cream, I was telling her about Ministry Incubators. I couldn’t tell if I heard a twinge of betrayal in her voice when she said: “I just...
