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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.
THE 4 DISCIPLINES OF EXECUTION
Anyone who works in Church leadership can imagine what we mean when we say that much of work energy is devoted to "the whirlwind." Emails, meetings, bible studies, setting chairs up, it is no surprise to anyone in ministry that most of a church leader's time falls...
3 Lessons on Innovation from the Christmas Story
Here at Ministry Incubators, we're focused on missional innovation, sustainable revenue streams, and learning everything we can from design thinking, tech startups, Native American agriculture, psychologists, and ivy league business schools. But we are also people of...
The Nap Ministry
How will you be useless to capitalism today? The question covers the landing page for the revolutionary performance-art meets ministry meets social justice movement called The Nap Ministry. This simple, and powerfully subversive “REST AS RESISTANCE” model suggests...
The #1 Way to Reduce Stress
When one of Ministry Incubator's leaders sat down with a mentor, feeling the pressure of a to-do list that was quite literally impossible for him to achieve that week, his mentor asked him to circle a few things he actually could do. To the stressed-out leader’s...
Three Sisters
When the first Europeans landed on what is now called North America, they noticed an agricultural practice of the indigenous population that was radically unfamiliar to them. They saw gardens, where, instead of neat rows of separated crops, beans wrapped themselves...
Students Leading Students to Worship: Olivia Williamson’s Story
By John HarrellMinistry Incubators staff “Worship me.” That’s what Olivia Eckart Williamson experienced as God’s call to her when she was a senior in high school: to worship the Lord, with her school as the venue. She remembers being at a restaurant with a friend,...