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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.
Not Anymores: Part 2
The Empty Restaurant When people talk about church growth, they tend to imagine their role is to spread the Gospel to people who haven’t heard it yet. Their goal is to practice Evangelism in the most literal of senses, spreading the Good News as news. Where I live, we...
Not Anymores
When I was in my late 20’s, a bunch of my college friends were getting married, and a strange thing kept happening at the weddings. I was working as a youth pastor at the time. For a lot of my friends, who hand flown from our alma mater in Ohio landed in impossibly...
Snakes Under the Floorboards
I live in Tennessee, one of the few places where, if you know where to look, you can still find churches that have snakes under the floorboards. I got an email from a Dutch reader a few weeks ago (hi Kelvin), so if this needs explaining: beginning in the early 20th...
3%
A local mental health professional was on an entrepreneurship podcast this past week, and he started talking about the impact of the mental health of leaders on their organizations. He said, “The anxiety you haven’t named in private shows up as decisions in public....
Sieve
Last week, I sat in a meeting with a group of leaders at Brite Divinity School. and we discussed strategy for a new initiative focused, in part, on helping students clarify what they hoped to get from seminary, and prepare them for what they would do after. Dr. Callid...
All Kinds
My brother is an archivist. Specifically, he is a digital archivist, meaning that he spends his days editing and organizing the meta-data on digital files (things like the tags, what its titled, file formats, etc) to ensure that they are preserved long-term and can be...