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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.
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...
Epiphany
This year, I had the joy of spending the holidays at home with my twin 3 year olds, and the funny thing about 3 year olds is that their sense of time is a bit…wobbly. Tomorrow, and next month, and never are all kind of the same. Yesterday and last year blur together....
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...





