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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.
Picture Perfect
Now we see through a glass darkly, then we shall see face to face. 1 Corinthians 13:12 A few weeks ago, on our monthly family trip to Costco, my son tried to reach out and grab a lizard on one of the ultra-high definition TVs. I was as surprised as he was when his...
Swing, Batter, Swing
I was talking to a youth ministry friend of mine last week, and he told me about an SOS text he got from a volunteer. The volunteer was leading the 11th and 12th grade boys small group at the large, mainline church where my friend works. My friend popped into...
Blowing on Sails
I, like everyone, have spent much of the last couple of weeks talking about Alysa Liu. Alysa Liu is an American figure skater who recently won gold at the Winter Olympics in Milan. But it wasn’t her win that made her the only thing we all could talk about, it was how...
Solvitur Ambulando
Today (at writing, maybe not at reading) is Ash Wednesday. It is the beginning of the season of the liturgical year that is most antagonistic towards the type of energetic, innovative, optimistic, forward-driving work that we do best at Ministry Incubators. Our work...
Stinky Pete
My children recently “borrowed” (stole) a copy of a storybook version of Toy Story 2 from a friend. They are obsessed. I was reading it to them for the 30th time, when a thought caught me so off guard that I nearly teared up. If you aren’t familiar, the basic story...
Climbing the Roof
On Sunday, my husband sat next to me in church as our pastor gave a sermon on Luke 5:17-26, the story of the paralytic man being lowered through the roof to see Jesus. He leaned over and whispered, “I wonder if there were some other group of friends in the next town...